Papercreters: [papercreters] Great Looking Photos

Saturday, October 10, 2009

[papercreters] Great Looking Photos

Great Idea, I have access to 12" sch 60 water line. I would have never
thought about putting handles on it to pull it up. I was going to use
the 12" water line under my press to make 12" x12" PC logs to do a COB
type wall using PC as mortor but I never could work out in my mind how
to do the corners, and looks like your idea of round corners would do
the trick. I may go ahead with that idea after all. Keep the photo
coming, a picture is worth a 1000 words.

Bob the builder

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, doris burton <dorisburton03@...>
wrote:
>
> Bob the corner post are made of concerte with 6" wire mesh and re-bar
> inside. We used a three foot section of a 12" Plastic Irrigation pipe
to
> slip form the columns. They were partially filled then moved up about
five
> inches every twenty minutes. If let stay longer they would stick and
you
> could not move the form. Ronnie installed handles on each side to make
it
> easier to move the form up.
> We needed the strength for the roof which is a Hyperbolic Parabolid
> shape.This room is a total of 700 square feet which will be the
bedroom,
> Master bath and a laundry room when we are done. We started this
project
> back in December 08, we were shoothing to be done in one year but
doesn't
> look like we are going to make it, however it is as you know quite
labor
> intensive and we feel we have moved along on it at a good pace. When
we set
> the time limit on it we had nothing to base it on since we had never
built
> with pc before.
>
> Doris
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:50 AM, countryatheartok <
> criswells.ok@... wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > You guys make us all envy you. Looks like you are making great
progress.
> > I've got a few questions.
> >
> > - How did you pour your corner post?
> > - Are they concrete or papercrete?
> >
> > Looks like you might have use something like a 5 gal bucket as a
slipform,
> > maybe around one of those other poles like I see in your photos that
are
> > being encapsuated inside your PC Wall. Keep up the photos.
> >
> > Bob the builder
> >
> >
> >
>