Papercrete is a material made by pulping used paper. Papercrete almost always contains various additives (commonly sand and cement) and is formed or molded to a useable shape. After allowing it to dry for a few weeks, a lightweight and versatile building material results.
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The only other Tasha I have known was a beautiful Brindled German Shepard we had for a couple years.
We got her by stopping by my brother-in-law's place when they were 200 miles away. Tasha had no food or water and they had been gone two days.
We fed and watered the dog then loaded her up and brought her home.
We left them a note telling them why we took the dog.
Two years later they came asking for their dog back.
We let them have Tasha back and they did a lot better for her.
To me it is like she is still around.
Back then I shot a Super 8 movie of her and our other two dogs, ducks and the goats.
More recenty I paid to have that movie and several others put on a DVD.
Alan in Michigan
--- On Wed, 6/27/12, Tasha Tesla <tashatesla@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Tasha Tesla <tashatesla@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [papercreters] Best way to pour a 6" x 12" x 52" block? To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 5:16 PM
Hey Ken, I thought you were following me ... lol ... nope, not gonna go there ... I get in enough trouble as it is. Papercrete is probably not going to work out well in developed countries. The building codes are usually archaic, and labor is expensive. If labor is cheap (or free), it'll work if no inspections are required. Commercially, I determined that money could not be made with it, so contractors won't deal with it. Bottom line, portland is the main constraint - current around $8 a bag here.
As an interesting side topic, I made a few bales with no cement and no sand - just mix, pour and dry. Those bales are 15x15x48, incredibly light, and still going strong after several years in the weather. They get wet, but dry well, and no obvious ill effects. My dogs enjoy their doghouse made of all-paper, and it insulates VERY well - they'll escape to there when it's hot. Hmmm ... starting to ramble ... gotta quit that ... TASHA
Tasha are you following me lol As for collecting paper I subscribe to tons of companies for catalogs and just general junk mail my post man hates me. Anyway having used a 30-30 (with 10in stop with 14in blocks)on about the same recipe as Tasha's I have to agree with her. But recipes are a dime a doz. having built 6 buildings so far with PC with 4 types of mixers, looking at your forms if you can roll your mixer over them to load them would be your easier way. Buy the way I am modding a 1hp electric motor in a 55gal drum mixer to a 5.5hp gas powered mower setup, pics are forthwith.
Ken Lead Follow or get the Hell out of the Way deepdesertsurvival
Dan, No expert here, but it seems you have too much cement, and that's the expensive part. Several years ago I made a few blocks with 1 cement and 3 paper. They're sitting behind the workshop, exposed to the elements, and they're still fine. Have you experimented with different mixes? My efforts went through a LOT of pours, and finally arrived at 1-3 or even 1-4 as a good compromise of weight and rigidity. (no sand). Just for laughs, I tested a dried block with a 30-06 and was amazed. My blocks were 12 inches wide, and penetration was about 5 inches - the paper absorbs energy and distributes to a much wider area. I stopped my efforts after a few hundred blocks though - didn't have a good application for the blocks. As I remember, it was a real pain just collecting the paper ... lol TASHA
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