Greetings,
If you have the burlap, then what you want to look into is called
petrified hessian. Youtube has a bunch of videos on it, as well as
several web sites carry it. I will be using petrified hessian for the
finish on my roof.
Bright Blessings,
Garth & Kim Travis
www.TheRoseColoredForest.com
Bedias, Texas
On 7/1/2013 2:08 PM, calle vallede wrote:
> Hi we bought an old old old old fixer upper house.
>
> We can not afford to rebuild after the fire last yr.
>
> The siding on.this house is bad very very bad. Can not afford to replace.
>
> I.do have a free supply of burlap bags.
>
> Could we dip them in papercreate and nail them up or is somekind of
> cheap cement mix.
>
> It looks so bad and I would love to do something this fall.
>
> Please any and all ideas welcome.
>
> C
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: * Charmaine Taylor <charmainertaylor@gmail.com>;
> *To: * <papercreters@yahoogroups.com>;
> *Subject: * [papercreters] pole barn- papercrete IFC ideas
> *Sent: * Mon, Jul 1, 2013 6:58:18 PM
>
> a company touting GREEN building sells huge sheets of styrofoam with a
> cladding of chicken wire(basically) on both sides, once assembled ( it
> clicks together at corners, you could invent your own version), it's
> then shotcreted with cement. there is a huge industry around this
> method of using cement and foam..houses go up fast, and much cheepers
> than stickbuilt.
>
> the huge 4x8 panels are so light the workers get blown off the roof in
> windy weather , like holding a 'kite'
>
> at the ITSA (a ferrocement group who use cement and mesh) gathering in
> 2004 & 2005 we saw several companies with the same type idea of sandwich
> mesh with foam.
>
> also waste bubblewrap was rolled up and flat sheets are glued to both
> sides to make panels..etc. but none of these ideas involves papercrete.
>
> I am going to upload this book to my site so anyone can access it
> free. PRESCRIPTIVEMETHOD-InsulatedFormsBOOK.pdf
>
> 200 pages by HUD Book: *Prescriptive method of insulating concrete
> forms in residential construction. * 1.6 MB size, very thorough, if you
> want ideas on applying these design to papercrete.
>
>
> Mike Mcain was also big on pouring huge 'gang panels" like 6 of them
> with huge sheets of ply in-between, boxed in with heavy ply, with drain
> screen on bottom.
>
> took a while to cure dry
>
> gives me a few hours to get this book uploaded to my site
>
>
>
> --
> *Charmaine *
>
> Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
> PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
> www.papercrete.com <http://www.papercrete.com>
>
> *Michel de Montaigne:*"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual
> cheerfulness."
>
> *Socrates:*"He is the richest who is content with the least."
>
>
>
>
>
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Re: [papercreters] Question....problem. pole barn- papercrete IFC ideas
at 2:38 PM