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

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.
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> Salt Box House Plan Has Clerestory Windows For Passive Solar Heating
> nwjoinery.com
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> 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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