Friday, March 14, 2008

[papercreters] Re: Papercrete as insulation and other questions....

---boy , you would be correct on the big De-H - I use a fan and I
work under 3000 watts of light -I would put the stone on the floor ,
over a sand bed with pipes in it, over 4" of papercrete , then I would
build the walls of special made blocks to similate cut limestone - the
hollow nature would allow you to bond them internally and then strike
the joints - all sorts of possibilities still stone can hold 80 %
water and you will have a mess - Just ideas Clyde In
papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Curtis Stewart <dbigkahunna@...> wrote:
>
> It would take a BIG Dehumidifier unit to dry papercrete. The $$ cost
to do this would be unbelieavable. This would require a industrial
sized DH or AC unit runnig of 440 or 680 volts.
> Nothing you can buy at Wal-Mart or Home Depot could do this. Look
at the gallons of water used in making PC. Even on110 degree days it
takes 2-3 weeks to dry a PC block completly.
> wilaci2 <wilaci2@...> wrote:
> might not be very green but if you close it up you could run
> dehumidifier or air conditioning to speed drying
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Boersema" <picknick@> wrote:
> >
> > If you have the time do the outside wall first. Then either spray
> or much
> > more labour intensive trowel the papercrete on in layers letting
> each dry in
> > between. You might consider just laying the inside wall with mortar
> that
> > would cut down on the moisture getting back into the papercrete. The
> > advantage that I see is if you form the outside walls as loadbearing
> you can
> > get your roof, doors and windows in and have a dry environment to
do the
> > rest of the work in.
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> >
> > NIck
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> > _____
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> > From: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:papercreters@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of Rick
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:50 PM
> > To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [papercreters] Re: Papercrete as insulation and other
> questions....
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Spaceman. As a concept - pretty good, in practice, not so
> > great? What if I were to put up ONE stone wall, use it as part of a
> > form for the papercrete, then remove the forms from the other 3 sides
> > and allow the papercrete to dry and cure, before finally using the
> > flat edge of the dry papercrete as I build my outer wall? Maybe more
> > trouble than it's worth - the cost savings over beadboard just makes
> > _,_._,___
> >
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