Papercreters: Re: [papercreters] Re: Thermal Mass Rocket Stove Heater with Papercrete

Friday, January 13, 2012

Re: [papercreters] Re: Thermal Mass Rocket Stove Heater with Papercrete

Greetings,
If you leave the paper out, yes you have cob. Otherwise you have paper
adobe and it insulates. Many of us build with that instead of using
cement. Clay and paper pulp are insulating, as much as the cement
mixture is.

Bright Blessings,
Garth & Kim Travis
www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
Bedias, Texas

On 1/13/2012 3:16 PM, countryatheartok wrote:
> I was under the impression, that if you added enough clay and sand to
> papercrete you gained thermal mass and lost insulation value! Cob is
> clay, sand and straw, seems to me clay, sand and paper pulp would work
> just as well.
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>, Garth & Kim Travis <gartht@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Papercrete is insulation, not thermal mass. You don't want to insulate
> > the heat to stay in the fire box. I have seen it tried, a friend made a
> > fire place out of papercrete. Burned nicely, but you could freeze to
> > death within five feet of it.
> >
> > Bright Blessings,
> > Garth & Kim Travis
> > www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
> > Bedias, Texas
> >
> > On 1/13/2012 3:07 PM, countryatheartok wrote:
> > > I've been looking at the following site
> > > http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp and others,
> and was
> > > wondering if instead of cob for thermal mass, if papercrete could be
> > > used instead. Has anybody else thought of this or tried it?
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
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