Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: papercrete mobile building or rv type of trailer

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

[papercreters] Re: papercrete mobile building or rv type of trailer

Previous years for our fair we have either used 10x20 canopies, sometimes building wooden walls. Or have built large shed type buildings we could jack up drive a 20 foot flatbed trailer under strap it down and drive it home. Always required buying oversize permits, attaching oversize signs, and flashing warning beacons. Then having to time the drive during least amount of traffic through town.

Now we live about an hour further away from our state fair grounds and would prefer not to have to make multiple trips each way to get everything there, then spend a day or two getting building either put together on site or getting the two halves (that one was 10x40 in two sections) lined up and joined in a way that would not leak but would not be too much trouble to take apart two weeks later to haul it back home.

After all that was done, then we had to scramble to get everything set up inside and get it stocked in time to open for the fair, work it from 8 or 9 am until 11 or 12 pm for twelve days then tear everything back out, tear building down or apart and haul it out in just a couple days after fair was over.

Lots of work involved. But lots of fun as well. We make custom photo tiles and gifts. Have Aurora Borealis tiles (Northern Lights) which glow in the dark plus many other images and you can give us images to put on our items for you. Loads of fun but long hours and lots of people to try and please can sure wear us out. Trying to find a way not to have to work so hard on the building every year too.

I do have some pictures of booths over the years from fair and craft shows if you would like can send them off list. But mainly they are 10x20 canopies we bought at either sam's club or costco.

Vickey in Alaska

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "JayH" <slurryguy@...> wrote:
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> Dirt driveway works too. Just grab a stick and draw in the dirt.
> Or use masking tape on your living room floor.
> Or lay string out on the ground or floor.
> Whatever you happen to have.
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> Now you also have me curious. You wouldn't happen to have a link to some photos of your previous efforts for a State Fair booth?
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> If you have been doing it for several years, I agree that it shouldn't be difficult for you to decide how you want things configured, but there is no substitute for actually seeing it layed out full sized and standing/sitting in the space.
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> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "kjtbeskimo" <vickeym@> wrote:
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> > Sorry, I did not respond sooner. Thank you for all the suggestions. We do not have a driveway that we can draw it out on (Chalk does not work well on dirt. lol) However, we have built a number of different fair and market booths over the years. So we are fairly well versed in the setup we will need inside. Though we did plan on working from the inside out.
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> > My husband has just joined so at some point he will jump in with his ideas for what he was thinking he might try and get opinions from all of you who have worked with the papercrete as we are just getting started.
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> > For the fair booth itself. We can have it up to a maximum of 10 foot wide including any overhangs, which is of course, a bit wider than is legal without a special permit for driving down the road with. So...it will either need a slide out of some type or we will have to get a permit every time we need to move it. Granted, we most likely will not be moving very often, but if we did not need a permit we may do so more often.
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> > It's main use at this point would be for the two weeks of our state fair. Once the booth is there, it will have the wheels removed and be dropped to ground so that we do not need a large handicap ramp. One end of the booth will need to open. Most likely a good sized set of double doors. Which is what we have used in the past. Inside we will end up with shelving, counters, and hanging space of some type along the walls to display our products on and a work area in the back for our equipment and supplies as we will be making our products right there while people shop.
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> > We will have to incorporate tie downs which extend over the roof and down to the base/floor where it can be secured to steel stakes or some such to hold it down in the high winds in the area where our fair is held. Canopies tend to blow away there.
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> > At some point in the future, if this works out...we may try a travel trailer of some type. But first it would be more of a cargo type or unit.
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> > The papercrete geodesic Airstream sounds quite interesting. If all this works, it could prove a very interesting travel trailer, lighter weight and less fuel draining than commercial units. We could all be onto something good here. :>}
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> > Vickey in Alaska
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