Melody,
Dont get hung up so much on exact recipes for doing "X". Make about 20 - 30 batches and see ho different this material is. It is not cement and it is not adobe. It is a building material unlike anything you have ever dealt with. The exact ratio of sand, lime cement, clay or horse puckeys is irrelevant if you are not making slurry. This material will perform without any additives. Just mush up some paper in your electric blender, Pout it into a mold that allows drainage and in 5-7 days you have a block of paper. It needs to be able to drain as the inital material is around 50% water and air. So grab a bucket and a drill. Make some slurry an dlet us know what workd for YOU where You live. You can filter through the post but a good rule of thumb is equal weight of paper to binder (100 pounds of paper to 100 pounds of cement) and enough water to make it into slurry. Good luck and welcome to our group and for heavens sake, HAVE FUN!!!
Melody <Melody@hillcountrytx.net> wrote:
Hear, hear! I'm also a fan of the forum option, mainly because discussions can be delegated into separate topics. "Recipes" would be something I could use right now.The database listed in our files for recipes ---- doesn't have the recipe I need for mixing up a 5-gallon batch for wall blocks for my climate. Should I add sand? Lime?Y'all say to experiment, and I will, but honestly, I don't know what I'm looking for. I don't even know what I'm doing. This is all new to me. I don't need it to be strong, necessarily, just reliable/durable enough to build an outside decorative nonload-bearing wall.With a forum, I could go to the "Experiments" section and find somebody somewhere who has built blocks for an outside wall, including what worked and what didn't. I could also add my experience to the forum someday.Just my $.02.Melody in TX
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