Any pictures of your papercrete form blocks?
What papercrete recipe do you use for them?
Have you built with papercrete in North Dakota and Arizona?
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "William Conrad" <humvee@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Janoahsh" <janoahsh@> wrote:
> To make the papercrete form blocks I pour papercrete into the
> horizontal mold
> 3" thick and then poke in 9" pieces of chain link fence wire
standing
> uprite. The wire comes in a zig zag pattern and it dries into the
> papercrete side. I then pour the hi mass side concrete or earth
> plaster and push the exposed wires from the papercrete block into
the
> setting Hi Thermal Mass side. This gives me a papercrete exterior
and
> a plastered or concrete hi thermal storing wall inside. I do use
> vernicle re bars in the middle (32" OC) and a 1/2" horizontal bar
every
> 4' (2 in an 8' wall). The result is 9" of insulation outside and a
3"
> high thermal mass inside. My homes already use insulated slab
floors
> with pex tubing for radiant heat. I either stucco or side the
outside
> for looks. I have had good luck with just painting the Stucco and
have
> not had any water problems. I build in North Dakota and Arizona.
>
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