Papercreters: [papercreters] The uninformed

Sunday, November 16, 2008

[papercreters] The uninformed

Last friday i was working at our church and showed our test brick to
my head pastor,he was totaly amazed.He had never heard of doing this
with used paper and thought it was a great thing .He now wants a
meeting with me next week.We have bought a large peice of rec
property last year and have set up a portable camp till we find a low
cost remidy to build cabins with.Because there is so much bush around
papercrete makes sence,he wants some more test bricks to send to his
arciteces for testing,fire is a big insurance worry when there is a
youth camp involved.Every one i show this brick to is blowen away and
thinks its a great thing ,we have a congrigation of 1400+ x 1 ton of
waste paper per person a year,thats alot of recyled news print and
cardboard.I have been given permission to put a paper box on the
church grounds for collection.Now while we are making bricks we can
also train people for mission trips aswell,we are over 200 youth in
the church so they are very willing to learn new things that will
help others.Next week we have World Visions african village display
at our church and will show them this aswell for alt building
media.As far as getting the word out social networking is the way the
net is the best for free advertising.We have been building our press
this week and now have it mounted on a trailer, total investment so
far $34 for rods,zip cut disks.The steel was old salvage,free.I will
post some pics today after church we are still gathering hydrolic
parts but will take step by step pics if anyone wants to build there
own from our brainstorming.Have a great sunday,Clair.