Thanks for posting this Ernie. Good looking project. Well done.
Your application might be one of the harshest moisture environments
possible for papercrete. It will be fascinating to see what happens
over time. The longer it holds up under this torture test the more
confidence we all can have about using papercrete in all kinds of
applications.
I hope you'll give us reports from time to time about how things are
faring.
Keep up the good work.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Ernie Phelps" <eepjr24@...>
wrote:
>
> Have been meaning to do this for a while, so had the wife come out
> and take a few pics while I was working on the new path. Check out
> the pictures in Ernie's Pictures in the photos section.
>
> The project illustrated is one where I am using a pressure washer
and
> little red concrete mixer (HF special) to put PC on a path as weed
> barrier and leveler. The leveling is mostly for the ornamental wall
I
> will be building on one side, two courses of rough cut landscape
> brick. My mix is about 8 parts wet paper pulp to 1 part cement. I
> used both Type I and Type S this time around, curious to see if
there
> is any long term difference.
>
> I have already done a proof of concept for using this under my
marble
> chips, you can see it in the "Dried" picture. SG, that is the
oldest
> sample I have in continuous ground contact, not sure of the exact
> date, the wife thinks it was 3 months ago, I am thinking 4 or 5. To
> date it is not showing deterioration. I just did cover it with more
> to raise the level a bit, but I have some more next to it under
> pavers that I will not be adding to, so I can look at it again
after
> storm season is over.
>
> If anyone has questions, feel free to ask. I must say that this
beats
> the HECK out of using the drill like I did for the first couple
> projects. And so far that path has taken about 4 paper grocery bags
> of shredded paper, plus about a weeks worth of newspapers.
>
> - Ernie
>
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