[papercreters] Project

This site surely has been slow lately. I hope all the slurry slingers are taking advantage of the warm temperatures and quick drying times.

My latest project involves filling lots of tires with dirt. A geodesic frame will be put on top, and this will be covered with papercrete a foot thick or more, sealed, then bermed. The dome will reach the surface, and a smaller dome will be placed over the top of it as an entry. This combined with the stairs makes the two required exits.



The floor is actually a foot lower than where the left Yeti is standing. We have needed lots of dirt for filling tires, and the floor is a great place to store it. About one more row of tires and then a concrete bond beam will finish the wall, ready for the shallow dome. This is a 360 degree panorama from the middle of the hole.



Here's the hole, and that wall of tires is about seven feet tall - to give some scale.  The white is caliche, a low grade limestone, and most of the underground is encased in this. It was hard digging but worth it. The sides of the hole have eroded in the winds so it is actually a foot or two deeper than it appears. Where the small dome frame sits is the original grade and everything will be back filled to this level. That is the dome frame that will become an entry, it is 17' in diameter. In this area it is supposed to stay 68 degrees (F) year round at this depth, and even if we get a couple of degrees of additional warming in my lifetime it should still be bearable in this.



The stairs will continue to above ground level, with a cover building to prevent any water entry if we ever get rain again! Well, I've actually gotten almost an inch this year.

If you reply to this, be kind and delete the photos so they don't get sent back and forth to folks like me with slow connections.  : )

spaceman

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