Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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.



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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.



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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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