Patty LaTaille and Jack Sciacca built a house in Villa Grove made
of The Mountain Mail.......
of The Mountain Mail.......
...."She also said that as the papercrete needs to breathe, you cannot use regular paint on it. Instead Sciacca lime washed the interior of house. He said one of the other reasons he chose to use many metal surfaces in the house is that they provide vapor barriers and reflective surfaces."
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This seems too eco groovy...organic materials need to breath, such as straw bale can't be covered with plastic, and cement coverings sometimes cause rot or allow other water trapping problems..
After all coating PC walls and roofs with latex paints and cementitous type plasters is the norm, as the original 'inventors' did.
is it now the practice to think PC breathes????
and metal will not absorb any moisture, so any collected from rainy weather, or people's use of showers, and basic living will be trapped against the papercrete. again wood - a 2x4- can hold wood 1 cup of water,then evaporate it, but metal /steel struts none, so care with SB building avoided having the wall material absorb moisture. I wonder if these guys are using a moisture meter?
the lime wash is an excellent choice too in any case, and may solve the moisture issue in their high/dry environment..
Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
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