Sunday, May 11, 2008

Re: [papercreters] Did anyone use plastic instead of paper?

The plastic is smooth and will not stick well in your mix. It can
easily be torn out after the papercrete has dried.

I would recommend saving those plastic bottles for cement mortars. You
can slice the plastic into very thin strips 1/16 of a inch or less and
use them as a cheap form of ECC fibers to reduce cracking in your
cement mortars.

On May 11, 2008, at 2:26 PM, "matrovao" <matrovao@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if any of you has experienced using plastic (old pet
> bottles for instance) instead of paper. I was thinking that it may get
> waterprofing. What do you think? In the recycling industry, they
> sell "PET flakes" that make it easier to make the mix. Thank's a lot,
>
> Marcio Cavalcanti.
>
>
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