John I love the burlapcrete. I thought I would point out from a
material point of view that expanded metal lath is about $3.50 the
2'x8' sheet or $0.21per square foot.
Your burlapcrete would be amazing if you can lower the mortar/slurry
cost.
On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:04 PM, "John Annesley" <John@AnnesleyPhoto.com>
wrote:
> Hello Joyce- to answer you questions, yes those are corrugated
> silos, one at the center of
> the building at ten feet diamter (it's my bathroom, with a 16'
> ceiling) the roof trusses
> radiate outward from its edge and catch the perimeter wall at 15
> feet of span, for a 40'
> diameter building. The second silo is at the edge of the perimeter
> wall, and I'm using it as
> an entryway to keep the internal and external temperatures of the
> structure away from
> each other- also some times of year its extremely windy here and
> having an entry way
> helps with keeping the wind outside when you open the door.
>
> As for your burlap question: yes, its real burlap bought from the
> garden supply store, for
> about $3.40 for a seven foot square piece of it, which 49 square
> feet. My exterior walls are
> 1,200 square feet, so one layer of burlap would equal 24 and a half
> pieces. That's $83.30
> in burlap to cover the walls once, but since I'm overlapping them
> about halfway, let's
> double that figure and call it $167. The Cement-All costs about $18
> per 55 lb. sack, and
> covers about 25 square feet when you account for the dual layer of
> burlap. So it would
> take 48 sacks of Cement-All non shrinking, rapid set grout to finish
> the walls, which will
> cost me $864. Of course it won't be quite that much, as I do have
> doors and windows
> which would need to be subtracted from the square footage. About a
> thousand dollars.
> That doesn't take into account the wire, the metal studs (if I did
> it again I'd use rebar
> because its cheaper and I'd make a dome and use this burlap-crete as
> the roof as well-
> probably three or four layers thick overhead where it would
> potentially be walked on.), or
> my labor.
>
>
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Joyce E <yz0ld0wl@...> wrote:
>>
>> More than interesting -- downright fascinating! What a concept!
>> John,
>> I assume this is real burlap, not the plastic stuff -- where are you
>> getting it and for how much money? Are those corrugated silos at the
>> side and in the middle? Corrugated eaves? Wow, this really could be
>> something!...
>>
>> Joyce in SE Ohio
>>
>>
>> Robert & Connie wrote:
>>> John, thanks for the great photos. You have caught my interest with
>>> this burlap-crete thing. ...
>>
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