RE: [papercreters] okay, so what about foundations? How to do that?

No you never put papercrete below ground. The way I did my foundations was to dig a trench about a foot deep and wider than the finish width of the wall. It doesn't need to go below the frost line because it is not going to crack. Fill the trench with gravel and mound it up as much as possible. You want your walls at least 8" above grade. I made forms and set them right on the gravel and filled them with slurry. I added some latex paint to the first course of papercrete to keep it from wicking any water that may come close to it. For the first few courses I went all the way around the building with no openings. At about the 1 foot height I framed for a door and left it open for access to the interior. But I made it much smaller than the finish door so I could cut it to the right size later.



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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: rustaholic777@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:04:41 -0800
Subject: RE: [papercreters] okay, so what about foundations? How to do that?

 

Yes, They do treated lumber basements or crawl spaces here on gravel footings. Still,,, Those footings are below the frost line and I would not put papercrete below the ground. Alan in Michigan --- On Tue, 2/21/12, JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@hotmail.com> wrote: From: JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [papercreters] okay, so what about foundations? How to do that? To: "papercreters papercreters" <papercreters@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 5:37 PM Google rubble trench foundations. Frank Lloyd Wright used them. Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog More papercrete info at http://squidoo.com/papercretebyjudith To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com From: rustaholic777@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:47:17 -0800 Subject: RE: [papercreters] okay, so what about foundations? How to do that?   I am sorry, Judith, but around here if you did that the house wouldn't last very long. I would use a 42" frost footing and pour concrete up above the ground then start with the papercrete. Alan in Michigan --- On Tue, 2/21/12, JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@hotmail.com> wrote: From: JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [papercreters] okay, so what about foundations? How to do that? To: "papercreters papercreters" <papercreters@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 1:08 PM A person digs a trench and fills it with gravel then builds with papercrete on top of it. Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog More papercrete info at http://squidoo.com/papercretebyjudith To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com From: shanerileyservices@sbcglobal.net Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:20:26 +0000 Subject: [papercreters] okay, so what about foundations? How to do that?   Walls and roofs seem to be the easy part. But what about foundations? I don't know how heavy papercrete is but I am betting a lot of it would weigh something, see? And so you don't want the ground to shift and crack your hard work, or worse, break it. So Does anybody have some stories on foundations? Does a person dig a trench and fill it with papercrete? Does a person dig a a square, then a couple channels across and then just pour papercrete on top of it all? What?

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