If you are using papercrete blocks or as slipform and have them well off the ground (8" at least) and cover them with natural plaster or stucco and have wide roof overhangs I see no reason you couldn't have a papercrete house in a snowy area. My piles of blocks sat outside all winter, much of the time under 2' of snow and are just fine. It's when they are wet that they are weak, but given time to dry out, which isn't long they are as strong as ever. Your idea about improvements to the mobile home are excellent.
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: ok_fine@gra.midco.net
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:06:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [papercreters] Newbie
Hi, I'm new here also; welcome. I'm Brian, live in North Dakota, so I
do know snow. Now that I'm reading papercrete is not for snow country I
am saddened. I'll hang out for more info though.
How I found this group was through a link on another group
http://groups.yahoo.com/ group/organic_ architecture/
Strawbale construction, earthberm and underground are methods which
maximize R value. Wind power is cheaper than solar power, a group for
that is http://tech.groups.yahoo. where you cancom/group/ awea-wind- home/
learn how to make your own wind generators.
Currently we live in a rented mobilehome. Big if here, if it were mine
on my land I would immediately bury the thing to window height to a
width of 4feet, use strawbale from the dirt up, a new wide roof to cover
the bales and the earth, and beyond to cover a deck/expansion. New
energy efficient doors and windows. Wind power and passive solar hot
water heat.
I was thinking papercrete would be a good covering for the strawbale.
Maybe I'm not so inclined now.
What I'd really like to build is something like a hobbit hole, like
Frodo's home.
~Brian
countryfamilyof6 wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>My Hubby and I have been looking into alternative ways to building a
>house. We live in a house that is over 100 years old and we are
>looking build another house on our property. We both love nature and
>we weren't sure what to go with, we have been looking at Cordwood,
>Strawbale, Stone, and now have come across Papercrete. We live in New
>Brunswick, Canada so our winters are cold and summers are hot, and we
>tend to get the tail end of some hurricanes, so what we are looking
>for is what will work best for us. We have been doing some research
>and I have yet to read all the posts on here, with 4 kids makes it
>hard to sit down and read..lol. Has anyone build a Papercrete house
>that has winters most of the time. And does anyone have a good recipe
>for making it. Everywhere we read so far it has been different...We
>are looking for waterproof, mildew proof, etc. I am hoping to learn
>alot here and be able to implement it into our new house.
>Thanks for this group,
>Heather & Rick
>P.S. We are trying to get ride of our power bill to, they just keep
>climbing and our house is not very energy efficient. So we want to go
>Solar, composting toilet, energy efficient HOME, etc.
>
>
>
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