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From: ken winston caine <ken.winston.caine@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Charmaine - 4 Water Glass Questions
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
Thanks for all the details from your experience, Joe Bigard.
From: ken winston caine <ken.winston.caine@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Charmaine - 4 Water Glass Questions
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
Thanks for all the details from your experience, Joe Bigard.
Know that this is controversial here, but am experimenting with a no-cement mix.
Ingredients are water, paper, clay, lime, flour, borax. Have been playing with various quantities of asphalt emulsion in it over the last 14 months (in small mixes), and am now wondering if water glass might convey the same -- or better -- water resistance and perhaps a stickier wet mix and harder cured wall?
Would you care to comment on how you think it might work with those ingredients? (Minus, or in conjunction with, AE?)
Am still messing with mixes because I have a really sandy clay soil available here and have had trouble getting anything but a rather crumbly crete. (Which may be a good argument for adding cement.)
Have been pouring onto, spraying onto, and mortaring onto burlap and also into small forms in my experiments. While it *looks* like papercrete when it first cures, I found that it washed off the burlap in rains. That happened when I had the burlap attached vertically to a fence-like wall as well as on the burlap lying flat on the ground on a sheet of plywood. Definitely looking for ways to make it more adhesive and more water resistant.
-- ken
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