Papercreters: Re: [papercreters] Re: Dome Roof Solution--Cheap? You have my interest.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Re: [papercreters] Re: Dome Roof Solution--Cheap? You have my interest.

Thanks. I got another letter and he said a 1/2 inch layer will be twice as strong as most codes and cost 4.00 a foot with fiberglass and 2.00 with chicken wire. I was suprised it cost that much.
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Newbie here -- That cost looks high to me too. Is that materials only or including labor?

--- On Fri, 10/24/08, peddler8111 <fpcharnock@earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: peddler8111 <fpcharnock@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [papercreters] Re: Dome Roof Solution--Cheap? You have my interest.
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 12:13 AM
> > > >
> > >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Thanks. I got another letter and he said a 1/2 inch layer
> will be
> twice as strong as most codes and cost 4.00 a foot with
> fiberglass and
> 2.00 with chicken wire. I was suprised it cost that much.