Welcome Evan.
I've enjoyed reading about you and your mother's exploits. Great
work. Magnificent location. The house seems to blend well with that
site.
I've had several questions about that house for a while.
What is the foundation?
What papercrete recipe(s) did you use for blocks?
What recipe did you use for block mortar?
Did you use any reinforcement in the walls? (rebar, wood, bamboo,
etc)
What is your exterior stucco? (recipe?)
What is your interor plaster? (recipe?)
The pictures look like you used fiberglass for roof insulation, is
this correct?
I like your mondo mixer. Yowzers! How big are your forms to hold
that much slurry in one shot?
I could ask more questions, but I'll stop there for now.
Welcome to the group. Have fun!
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, evan <anarchogeek@...> wrote:
>
> Hey, i just wanted to drop an email introducing myself.
>
> I've been doing papercrete stuff for a number of years with my mom,
> Joyce Plath, and Shane Keller on Panilokpom, a project to build a
1200
> sq ft papercrete house which is now mostly done.
>
> You can see photos taken of the project:
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/rabble/tags/papercrete/
>
> We experimented with forms, panels, and blocks and ended up choosing
> to go mostly with blocks. The roof was built first using wood
(mostly
> milled on site), then the papercrete walls were in filled.
>
> We started out with a tow mixer, but that kept breaking, leaking,
and
> generally was difficult to use. So then we went and converted the
> truck in to a big 500 gallon mixer....
>
> http://flickr.com/photos/rabble/310519693/
>
> That's worked pretty well for us.
>
> Now that the main house is done, Shane has a business making and
> selling the blocks to other builders in Northern Califonria.
>
> Let's see, what else, we started out with it being ag building,
> meaning we didn't need a permit, but eventually the inspector came
by.
> Instead of shutting down the project, he was pretty cool. We
submitted
> plans and engineering documents and he approved a construction
permit.
> We're not 100% sure we will be able to get a final sign off, we want
> to us a composting toilet, and we don't want to put in the requied
> spectic tank.
>
> Oh, one other thing, we had the building catch on fire. The wood
stove
> got too hot and the heat barrier wasn't in place behind it. It
> smoldered for 2 days before we noticed. Eating up about a 3 foot
> diameter hole in the wall. We just cut it out, and restacked it.
This
> time using more clay / sand, and put in place a heafty heat
barrier. I
> couldn't imagine a wood building burning for two days with out any
> structural damage.
>
> -evan
>
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