Tuesday, April 3, 2012

[papercreters] Re: Concrete Planet

prr.t21 wrote
"I always understood that the lime was an important preservative element in papercrete, preventing the paper being consumed by various plant and bacterial lifeforms."

I am afraid this is incorrect.

If papercrete is properly mixed, the wood fibre from the paper have already been thoroughly coated with cement/lime. They cannot be then consumed by either plants or bacteria.
Regards
Ashok

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