Hi,
I know of two fires, the first was in one of Lex Terry's garage
structures. That story with a picture is in Solberg's book.
Briefly, the story as I understand it is that an arsonist lit his
papercrete roof on fire with gasoline when Lex was away. The papercrete
took a long time to burn a small hole, about 8" in diameter. The
volunteer fire department responded in a few hours thought they put it
out with water.
When Lex returned the next day, there was a larger uneven hole, but
still less than 2' around. He chopped out the smoldering material. His
mix used fly ash instead of Portland. You'd have to ask him to verify
details.
The other was caused by a plumber sweating copper pipes in Ed Conley's
house. That one was put out fairly soon after the plumber left, but I
don't know details.
I suspect that this community would have know if anyone had a
catastrophic fire.
Thanks,
Vince
> Posted by: "donald1miller" donald1miller@yahoo.com donald1miller
> Date: Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:26 am ((PDT))
>
>
> I would like to play devil's advocate on this smoldering papercrete issue if I may.
> Another thing I would like to know is this: has there been any actual house or building made of PC that has smoldered for days or weeks or perhaps less and then burst into flame and burned to the ground?
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