Re: [papercreters] papercrete covered containers -was- Re: ugly eco home

The pc sprayed stucco coat I did has held up well against bear metal. I attribute this partially to the latex paint addition.

The walls of a shipping container are bot structural. The corners are the structural supports and edges are the supports. You can safely cut into any part of the corregated steel to place window and doors. I've found angle grinders to be more effective than gas or plasma for chopping up the containers.

On Sep 1, 2007, at 1:39 PM, "Neal Chabot" <sire@comcast.net> wrote:

It is silly to think that PC "shrinks away" when Mikey has stated otherwise, so you don't have to end up where you think you do.   Even if in the worse case it were to shrink away, you would still be left with an even greater insulation due to the air pocket.

 

One would have to know more about these structures to know whether cutting openings would compromise it, but there are many photos online and feature articles in magazines such as "Dwell" showing that they can be much more than a "tin box".

 

Neal

 

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From: Joyce E

I don't believe I would want to live in a tin box like that. I like
windows, and lots of natural sunlight...... Cutting windows into those shipping containers compromises the structure. Besides, what happens when the PC shrinks away from the metal as it cures? Exactly, you have a very hot, or very cold wall.......

Joyce in SE Ohio

Neal Chabot wrote:
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> A shipping container is nothing but the skeleton of a structure, ...

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