Dang. I sure wish I had read this second post of John's before I
replied to his first one.
<sigh>
I guess he's not talking about an uninsulated container after all.
My previous comments don't apply the same to INSULATED containers.
Oh well. Maybe my last post served a purpose and illustrated some
issues that were unrelated to what John is advocating. At the very
least I got a good rant out of my system. It felt good at the
time. :)
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "John Annesley" <John@...> wrote:
>
> Regarding it looking like a cargo container, just so you know- I
have built with papercrete
> using my own free labor, but if you were to actually hire folks to
run the equipment and build
> a papercrete house, it would likely be cheapest just to coat cargo
containers with papercrete,
> rather than try to build a load bearing papercrete wall system and
bond beam or post and
> beam with papercrete infill, and then framing a roof of some kind.
Plus, cargo containers are
> getting past code in California and all over the world in small and
large construction alike;
> there's precedent. They can't burn so inspectors may be fine with
coating them with a
> relatively untested insulator such as papercrete instead of the
current trend of using rigid
> foam insulation on the exterior of buildings and then giving that a
stucco coat. One might be
> able to get the major inspections taken care of without code being
concerned with what
> comprises the 'stucco' coat: one could consider papercrete as a
thick alternative stucco and I
> might be wrong, but perhaps inspections aren't required for stucco
work? I'm in rural AZ and
> don't have to worry about codes at the moment.
>
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