[papercreters] Re: Recipe for Newbie

Thank you spaceman. This gives me a place to begin. I did buy up a bunch of borax too, as I learned from this group it's a good thing to do. I am using a portable cement mixer - it's all I have, small enough so I can handle the loads, larger ones or those home-made jobbies would be too much for me to handle by myself, so I have resigned myself into making smaller batches at a time.

I'm ready for any all all suggestions as I am taking a week off staring now to get some garden projects together :)

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, spaceman <Spaceman@...> wrote:
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> Recipes vary a lot depending on the final use of the papercrete. The one
> I use mostly is about ten pounds of portland cement, five pounds of
> borax, sixty pounds of dry paper, and enough water to mix, between 150
> and 200 gallons. This makes a two mixer full. For durability I increase
> the portland to paper ratio as much as 1:1. I've seen recipes going up
> to 4:1 cement to paper, but that always seemed like overkill to me.
>
> When you say portable mixer, are you talking about a concrete mixer or
> mortar mixer? Neither of those is ideal for papercrete though it will
> eventually do it. If that's what you have you probably want to shred
> your paper first.
>
> I think there are still some recipes in the files area of the group, I'm
> running late and can't go check right now.
>
> spaceman
>
> On 5/25/2013 9:58 AM, motherreiver wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I'm new to this forum but have been watching for a while, and I see I am amongst some papercrete experts :) I am starting my very first papercrete project and would like your advice on how to begin.
> >
> > I have a portable mixer, bought some Portland cement, sand, and have tons and tons of shredded paper. What I want to do is to create a papercrete short garden wall(s) (probably about 2' high and 4' wide - arched ea.) to plant along my granite hill to add some good dirt and flowers to dot the side of my hill and make use of some good water run off. Also, I plan to have "stairs" dug in the dirt going up the hill where I would like to make some papercrete stepping stones to make it easier to get up that hill.
> >
> > Can you help me with initial recipes (such as how many parts of each ingredient) to make a nice mix to accomplish these goals?
> >
> > I thank you all so much for any help you can provide :)
> >
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