So, to repeat my previous question, John, how do you plan to insulate
the structure? What are you going to use inside the burlap structure
to make the walls energy efficient on your present structure?
If you were going to build a dome with the four layers of burlap,
would you do the same thing to insulate the walls or would you do
something different since the shape of a dome sometimes makes using
standard house insulation more challenging?
Thanks.
Connie
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Boersema" <picknick@...>
wrote:
>
>
>
> My concern with building a metal framed structure and coating it in
wire,
> was to find a way
> to trap the wire as part of a structural matrix with the coating.
With
> burlap draped over the
> wire with PC blown onto the burlap, the PC might stick to the
burlap, but to
> get the burlap
> then to adhere to the wire seems to me would require a mechanical
bond like
> hog rings
> every several inches or something. Same with the carpet. I was
trying to
> emulate
> ferrocement using fiber instead of steel, and quickening the pace
of the
> process by being
> able to dip the fiber (burlap) into a slurry and drape it over an
armature
> instead of
> meticulously suture expanded metal lath onto the wire armature. The
fact
> that the slurry
> sets up rock hard inside of half an hour also advances the pace of
the
> process, as night
> temps are still often below freezing and I didn't want to wait
until later
> in the year to get
> going on the project: freezing while setting up can often ruin
cement based
> curing
> processes.
>
> John what about using your burlcrete as the shell. Then spraying
successive
> layers of papercrete with borax and lime (relatively light high R
value).
> Once you have your R value gradually switch your mix to a heavier
mass
> oriented recipe and continue to spray layers or slipform which ever
you find
> easiest. If your light papercrete is sandwiched between a hard
sealed outer
> shell and a heavy almost adobe inner shell how can it smolder much
less
> ignite?
>
> Nick
>
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