We still want a dome home. As our first experiment in that
direction, baby steps, we are thinking of a very small dome to house
the mineral blocks for the horses. We are thinking of an 8' diameter
dome w/four arched openings, about 5 1/2 to 6 foot head clearance in
each for the horses. Two 2 x 6 boards crossed through the middle to
support the blocks, maybe w/some support from more papercrete to keep
the boards from bowing in the middle.
We hope to test the weather resistance of a dome structure this way.
It would be more like a monolithic structure, sprayed onto a rebar &
chicken wire structure, a little like Mike's dome.
We hope to make the outer layer of papercrete much heavier in a
concrete/sand/clay (if we can find it) mix, and "fade" it to more of
a true papercrete formula toward the interior meaning very little
sand & clay for higher R factor. We realize the R factor is a mute
point in such an open structure. This is in order to test for our
dome home construction later.
We have an intermediate project of a tractor shed planned if our
horse structure doesn't completely deflate our hopes.
What do you all think? Mike, I know you mentioned here once you
would use the standard concrete shell on the outside of a dome in the
future. What did you learn about an all-papercrete domes that we
need to know?
Spaceman, I know you had leaking issues with your geodesic? Was this
because of some of the inherent leaking problems w/any geodesic
structure some people complain of, or is it that the papercrete roof,
round or otherwise cannot prevent leaking? What would you do
differently?
Please give me some feedback. We want to hear the bad as well as the
good and learn from the mistakes as well as the victories.
Thanks.
Connie
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