--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Greg House <ghunicycle@...> wrote:
>
> Seems to me that you'd want to select the right material for the job.
> If you want to build a fire pit, you'd most likely want to use
> concrete blocks or brick, not wood, plastic, rubber...or papercrete.
> Not every material is good for everything, why misapply the material?
/agree. Papercrete is wonderful stuff, but there are things I would
definitely not use it for.
> If you want some insulation on your pit, perhaps you could use
> papercrete on the outside of some bricks or concrete that lines the
> pit?
Or do a nice fire pit in papercrete and then thin shell (stucco?)
concrete over the top of it for high fire resistance. I would only go
this route if I needed the moldability of papercrete, if I was
sculpting designs on the outside for instance.
- Ernie
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