I could be mistaken but I thought hypertufa came out of the horticulture trade and was started as living plant pots and containers that were soaked. The intent was for them to hold moisture and grow moss lichen etc. The pot would then slowly release its moisture to the soil in the pot and thus to the plant. Peat is a traditional staple in the horticulture trade and was therefore readily at hand.
Nick
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Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [papercreters] sculpture
At this hypertufa forum peat moss is a staple ingredient in almost every mixture. Alas nothing is said about why this is so and what reasons there are for its inclusion. It might also be good in papercrete. About all that I have found is that peat moss has very good insulative properties and has been used for that purpose in building. Does anyone else know why this would be good in the mix?
Neal
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From: Terry
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: [papercreters] sculpture
That was a good link to the garden web forum, the post on papercrete sculpture. I looked around the site a bit and found a very detailed post on using papercrete for sculpting -
In this person's work he is not using waste paper as we do in papercrete:
Paper fiber (I buy the paper insulation that is used to be blown into attics) I think they call it cellulose insulation. You can get from Lowes. It is already shredded.
If anyone's posted this link already I apologize, my Outlook was damaged by a virus and I've been having email problems.
Terry
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