About using 'unwanted" books in papercrete [which gives most of us serious
pause] eswpecially me, as a bookseller.
I'd rather know I had old math books in my living rooms walls, and maybe
a few bodice rippers in the kitchen walls , than to see the books mold to
death with rat poo all around them in the city dump.
BUT there is a flip side too... I came up with the idea of using people's
writings, children's artwork, school report cards, personal letters,
christmas cards from gramma.. just grind them up and make papercrete wall
infill, or plaster, then use in the walls.
I came to this when a friend died, he retired from a lifetime of work at 61
to be a writer in his 'golden years"..and he had stacks of his material
piled up...but got ill ( cancer), and died. another mutual friend was
the executor of the estate, and the writer wanted all his
writings...ALL....to be shredded so no one could read them. I took the
shredded paper ( two huge 33 gal. garbage sacks full) and made them into
paper+lime plaster. and used it on the walls in my home.
It is a nice thought to know he lives in my memory, with his words in the
walls. even though I can't read the words, they still exist..if your believe
we are all vibrating molecules.
I also think papercreters need a "truth window" like straw bale homes have.
A wee window that you open up and inside is a box stuffed with shredded
papers... hahahah ... well you get the idea. ( inside the straw window is
the actual straw bale, unplastered)
Maybe the wee papercrete truth 'door' is actually a pizza box cover, or a
phone book cover.. or even use a hard back book cover itself. Get a huge
oversize book, like acolorful geographic history of the world, or a chic
art book, use the book in the home, and save the cover, add a latch and
make it the "truth" window. Or hey, even laminate the cover of Solberg's
papercrete book, and make it the little door?
Some straw bale homes have some attractive ideas for the door. One was a
glass porthold cover, with copper fittins, and etched on the glass, in
Chinese symbol,it was the word "truth"... very clever.
Maybe take a picture of all the discarded books before shredding them, and
then a photo of the wall they were used in?
just a thought
Ms. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
http://www.papercrete.com
PO Box 375, Cutten CA 95534
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