Thank you Charmaine. How many time have we heard stories of things that were discovered on a "bad day"? I'll keep this in mind when I am making insulation for my roof. I have metal roofing on the entire shed now, walls and roof. I think I will take the wall sections off (they are all 8' long) and use them for the roof on the rooms I add. But before I put the metal on the roof I'll have to insulate it. I will add a room onto the front and one onto the back (made of my many leftover papercrete blocks or perhaps try slip forming) so that takes care of wall insulation on those 2 long sides of the building. I am so antsy to get started. Do winters get longer as we get older or are we just less patient than we used to be? I hope you can swing by here on your road trip and offer some of your wisdom in person. I relate well to people who think of things in terms of food (waffles, spaghetti, ramen noodles, oh and rice cakes).
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: tms@northcoast.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:55:40 -0800
Subject: [papercreters] RICE CAKE P.CRETE> similar to "WAFFLECRETE"
JUDITH WILLIMS SAID: was having a bad day one time and forgot to add the cement to the mix. What I ended up with was a big rice cake like thing. It was incredibly light but firm. I just interspersed the resulting blocks throughout the wall. But now I am planning to expand my small shed and make it into a little cabin for myself.
a woman after my heart--
I made up a batch of spaghetti length shredded paper strips and coated it with clay slip + hydrated lime added, with very little sand, and poured the light doughy mix into the 2' x 3' card board lids of paper case boxes. ( thank you Staples)
I called it "wafflecrete" the light clay encrusted stranded looked sorta like waffles or Ramen noodles in a package.. the filled box lids were dried in the direct sunlight here, and in a few days I had simple wafflecrete blocks I could lay between studs of my studio.
I liked this alot, it is fire resistant, and any clay plaster or lime plaster over it fills the nooks & crannies easily.
You can make some blocks based on the width of your wall studs, or space to be filled. and allowing for shrinkage when dry, you have a perfect FREE block of insulation which can be "buttered " with more clay slip or plaster and tucked into the spaces/ very easy to do, can be done alone, and not heavy to handle. Allows for people of any age or ability to do it. Also, a big-ass mixer is not needed... if you have just regular shredded paper from a school or legal office, and mix in some finer cross shredded stuff, you can have a suitable block for ceilings, walls, etc. not load bearing, I use lime, others could add borax, etc..but clay fireproofs and bug resists most anything it covers.
Charmaine Taylor Publishing
Green Building DVDs & Books
www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
Tel: 1-707-441-1632 PST Eureka, Calif.
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