Judith
Interested in your milk/ fat mixture.
I wanted to do papercrete to cover our earthbags, but husband insisted that we use adobecrete as our sand clay mix was perfect. He said he wanted strength.he made forms.
Will see how the unfinished project is when the weather is good.
It is difficult to get in and out if the ground is too wet.
Our whole house we hope to be paper crete.
We may build into a hill, so that part would be earthbags.
Looking forward someday doing more artwork with it, as I do handmade paper as an art form.
First things first.
Calle
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Interested in your milk/ fat mixture.
I wanted to do papercrete to cover our earthbags, but husband insisted that we use adobecrete as our sand clay mix was perfect. He said he wanted strength.he made forms.
Will see how the unfinished project is when the weather is good.
It is difficult to get in and out if the ground is too wet.
Our whole house we hope to be paper crete.
We may build into a hill, so that part would be earthbags.
Looking forward someday doing more artwork with it, as I do handmade paper as an art form.
First things first.
Calle
Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless
-----Original message-----
From: JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@hotmail.com>
To: papercreters papercreters <papercreters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 3, 2012 00:33:20 GMT+00:00
Subject: [papercreters] SG, etc.
Well I must say that hearing from Slurryguy is one of the best things to happen in an long time. I have a feeling there will be renewed interest in the group, people checking in, updates and lots more.As far as updates on my project, I have the biggest part of the construction done. I will have to beef up the roof - no leaks but I feel it should be thicker. I threw a few old panels up there when I was cleaning up the yard. I will mix up a batch of slurry and affix everything.The other little building is up all the way but is totally unfinished. It needs the fireplace built and doors installed. Then interior plaster and the floor.After searching for a cabinet that might work as a kitchen sink base I decided to go ahead and build one. So that is started. I made a huge mistake trying to seal the walls with a mixture of 1 part vegetable oil to 2 parts milk. The mix was fine and seems to be adequate however the nozzle on the sprayer wasn't working right so it didn't spray on evenly. I think I'll just make up some more and sponge it on.I'm really looking forward to staying up there as soon as the weather gets a little better. I'm house/dog sitting this week but plan to get set up when I get home.Well that's it for now. I have to discipline myself to post to the blog soon. I am so bad at that.......
Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog
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