Buying a single 6 cu. ft. bag of perlite I get the same price that Clyde does for buying 4
pallets at a time. $20 for the bag, which works out very closely to his cost of $3.50 per cu.
ft. His 4000 cu. ft. at $1.50 per cu. ft. is a great savings but it cost him $6,000 all at once
to get that deal.
As for fireproof paperadobe, below are links to photos of a wood burning stove made from
paperadobe block, which didn't even char after hours of use. In a 200 gallon mixer load, I
used 100 pounds of paper and nearly 800 pounds of clay soil, two fifty pound sacks of
lime which I hydrated overnight, and two 4 lb. boxes of borax. The lime and borax were
added to combat potential issues with mold and insects, as I thought both paper and earth
are prone to those two problems under certain circumstances. Even after two hours, the
outside surfaces of the stove were warm but not hot- there's enough mass to dissipate the
heat of a fire at 3.5 inches thick in these scrap blocks, and some insulation value from the
paper. The stove was held together with very long stucco nails. That's one thing I love
about this material: it holds nails and screws and can be pounded with a hammer and just
dents whereas the same blow on a concrete block of the same dimensions would shatter
it. Here are photos of the stove, the last one is a large image so skip it if you're on dial up.
http://www.annesleyphoto.com/Building/paperadobestove.jpg
http://www.annesleyphoto.com/Building/adobestove2.jpg
http://www.annesleyphoto.com/Building/stove7428.jpg
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "clydetcurry" <clyde@...> wrote:
>
> ---This is a real problem for small scale builders- when I bought just
> 4 pallets, my cost was $3.50/ cu.ft., yet by buying 4000 cu.ft in a 53
> foot trailer cost dropped to $1.50 /cu.ft. The 6 cu.ft. bags I use are
> about 45 pounds- This is the value of your finding materials to re-use
> - by the way great videos - Clyde In papercreters@yahoogroups.com,
> Mikey Sklar <sklarm-yahoo@> wrote:
> >
> > Clyde,
> >
> > What is your cost of perlite per bag and how much volume/weight is
> > that? I know you buy in bulk so you should have some good pricing info.
> >
>
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