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> You guys are on the right track. Lets go a step or two further.
> Check out this site from our com padres at ferrocement.com.
> http://ferrocement.com/bioFiber/y7-r1/biofiber_y7.1.en.html
> They have experimental data on making walls and roofs using this latex
> modified concrete and biofiber including burlap. I am planning a
> greenhouse style arched building with a pvc pipe skeleton and this
> burlap method over polystyrene insulation panels. After this thin
> waterproof skin is in place I am debating using wire reinforced
> papercrete to cover this structure until it is strong enough to
> possibly cover it with soil. I get a thermally sound building and a
> rounded deck surface or garden space back. I am trying to figure out
> how to bond a wavy wire into the skin parallel to the long axis to
> hang plant baskets to use the roof surface as garden space. You can
> start the plants in the baskets or troughs and hang them out on the
> wall when it gets warm enough.
I was wondering if you coated bamboo with ferro cement or adobe if it
would last as I the stuff grow wild here and some of it is 30 feet
high and quite thick. Shorter material 3/4" thick is very common.
This winter I am going to plant a couple acres by transplanting the
root systems.
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