Ms. Charmaine
Thanks for the ideals. I was thinking of something like that to dry the
blocks after the forms are removed. then moving them to a larger enclosure
for the final cure. and that might just be plastic covering the stacked
blocks on pallets and vented in spots.
We're having a good raining year, last year was very poor so I'm not
complaining it will just means more care for the blocks in all phases of the
project.
My poor little brain is beginning to get a better understanding of this
stuff.
> 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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