[papercreters] Re: Adobe vs PC in North Az

To eliminate confusion, I had sent an email to Othello:

Where are you N AZ?  We're near Meadview and Grand Canyon West.  You're way ahead of us with PC, but we do a lot of adobe work.   Just don't have the PC equipment (yet). 

We haven't been up to Grand Canyon West since they built the Skywalk, it's a major tourist trap now and way expensive.  But if anyone is heading that way, we're only a few miles from the road up and sometimes we can see the helicopters land there after accidents (tourists and buses drive like maniacs).  We always enjoy visitors!

So you're up around Flagstaff I take it. COLD!!!  Was in the low 20s here last night and we have to finish our new hoophouse and got more mud work to do.  We've been using adobe to rat/mouse/squirrel proof around garden beds, greenhouses and the bottom part of fences and it's worked extremely well for over 2 years.  Also have a small adobe addition that NEVER freezes without heat, even when it got down to 4 degrees last year the low in there was over 40.

We just brought a little cement mixer out to do some papercrete blocks for our next addition (above the windows and doors, adobe is too heavy).  Now that it's colder, we have extra electric since the batteries are full by noon. (off the grid)  But what happens when papercrete freezes before it's dry?

Christine

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