[papercreters] Re: pole barn (house) construction with PC infill

Thank you for the info. That gives me some good ideas.
Yes it is always unpredictable here as far as weather goes.
We usually have wet springs, mild to hot summers (hot for us hahaha)
and then 20 below around Feb.
Tow questions. When you say "plaster" what are you talking about (ingredients)
also, When you get to the top for the last foot or so how do you do that if your roof beams are in place already ?
Sorry for all the silly questions.....Just want to do it correct teh first time.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, spaceman <Spaceman@...> wrote:
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> I looked at nwjoinery.com but didn't see the salt box house plan. Maybe
> it is in the downloadable pdf.
>
> If you are using wooden posts, wood has a good R value. You would need
> to be able to seal the joint between papercrete and wood.
>
> If I were infilling between posts I would use a slip form and not bother
> with blocks. Usually a plaster topcoat is applied over blocks (as you
> plan to do) and they are concealed anyway. Slip-forming is a big labor
> saver over blocks. Mix, dump or pump, and you're done. With blocks you
> mix, mold, turn for drying, move and stack, mix mortar, place the blocks
> with mortar. Every step is added labor. You can do 1' lifts with
> slip-forms, giving it a little set time between lifts. To get enough dry
> time you probably needed to start months ago. The good news is that
> freezing doesn't seem to affect my papercrete, the bad news is that wet
> papercrete isn't very good insulation.
>
> I was camping in MT and on the 4th of July I had to break ice to get a
> morning cup of tea. Yeah, it gets cold there :)
>
> spaceman
>
> On 6/22/2013 1:47 PM, overogypsy wrote:
> > I was looking through all the post and could not find any DETAILED instruction (except for country ???) to tell us how to do what we are trying to do and if it will work.
> > This is what we are trying to do.
> > We are going to build a pole barn (house) and infill between the space with PC blocks. It will be a two story 35X35 house with clerestory windows. Like the one shown here.
> >
> > Salt Box House Plan Has Clerestory Windows For Passive Solar Heating
> > nwjoinery.com
> >
> > Our question is. If we fill in the space between the posts wouldn't we lose the R value at the posts ?
> > Also, if we spray PC on the inside and outside of the PC walls how do we keep with from gathering moisture in the wall as many others have mentioned. What would be a better finish that the PC to protect from moisture?
> > We live in MT and it gets rather cold here :-(
> > Thank you for the help
> >
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