since we are talking bout pc blocks, would you suggest me the best
ingredients for pc blocks..i ve tried before but the strength is
under par..thx mate
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Charmaine Taylor"
<dirtcheapbuilderbooks@...> wrote:
>
> personx said: I'm thinking of making a solar shed of some
short to help in
> drying the blocks.
>
>
> HI X- one thing that has been done in Oregon ( Eugene area) where
it
> is wet alot and hot alot,,, on a community site they used old slider
> doors and laid them over rows of newly made wet PC blocks. the
> slider glass was suspended/supported by straw bales all around, [or
> cinder blocks] and gave insulation and suport for the solar drying
> of the blocks.
>
> once dried a bit they made another big area of wet pc blocks next
to
> the dry ones and
> each set of bales is easly moved to the next area of blocks, and
the
> slider moved over to cover them.
>
> it was ingenious and simple,and easy to do with no building of a
shed etc.
>
> even if you used bales and heavy plastic tarp you could achieve a
> passve solar oven to dry the blocks.
>
> see www.lostvalley.org
they may have pics of their papercrete
> pumphouse etc.. or I can email you a couple, offlist--
>
> when I was making small blocks in a metal grocery rack I would
place
> old glass windows over the frame and it does speed the dryiongtime.
>
> the grocery rack is that plastic coated wire -4' long, and is U
> shaped, so I laid newspaper inside and up the sides, and just poured
> in my fiberclay wet mix,and left to dry...a drywall trowl (long &
> thin blade) was used to slice up the blocks when still damp for the
> right size. when dry the blocks were set between studs in my studio
>
> Ms. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
> 707-441-1632
> www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
www. papercrete.com
> PO Box 375, Cutten CA 95534
>
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