[papercreters] Re: Thanks Nolan... Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Stucco sprayer, finsh papercrete mix.

Hello Calle,
The independednt builder book looks neat. Thank you for the heads up.

A couple notes. I have the list coming to me in digest format and may miss a question.  If I can ever do anything to help, please don't hesitate to email nolan@mortarsprayer.com. Our phone number is also also posted on our stucco  sprayer website. 
First off, Our sprayers are great tools and real time savers *BUT* I wouldn't want anyone hold off of building and experimenting because they don't have a sprayer.

This is exciting. The chance to build a low cost structure with your son can be a lifetime treasure.

Bob's approach of spraying a thin layers has allowed him to build in wet weather.
There may be other solutions that can work to match your situation.

Yes you can tint the mix and not paint. The outside of our home is tan from pigment. On the inside we did white lime plaster. (Bob's papercrete plaster would be a great choice)  Search natural pigments.

Surface bonded block can be  another very economical and easy way to build. Please seach that in your studies. The key I have found is to combine the best ideas from various systems to fit the resources and site. Like Papercrete and cobb and surface bonded block.

While you are working on a plan, you could start casting PC blocks from the waste paper in your home. By the time you are ready to build, you would have a nice supply.

Here is an amazing home  built from found materials.  If you and your son built something like this out of sight, the tax man probably wouldn't notice. If you keep it tiny like this, he probably wouldn't care when it is spotted.
And what an incredible gift for a young man!

Happy New Year!
Nolan

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[papercreters] Thanks so much Spaceman...Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books?

Spaceman,  Thanks again.  Wood gas, an interesting concept, will try to learn more about it.   There is so much to learn and never enough time.  I am a homeschooling mom and time is so precious.  But I am determined to get this done.   One never knows what the winters will be like out there. This past summer had rain most every day, not usual for high dessert. The wildflowers were fantastic.   We do not live out there, so have to plan ahead very carefully.  Charmaine did send a great resource for books today.  Updated ones that I had not read yet.     The R40 something must mean that you don't have to produce much heat to stay warm.  We keep our regular house at 65 or so in the winter and at 80 in the summer, so we are use to cooler temps.  Out there the winds blow so much in the winter, so don't know how it will be.     I am running as fast as I can, as living in the city is so undesirable anymore.  I long to live out there and be creative and raise most of our own food.  My faternal grandparents lived in a soddy in the next county to the west in the 1800's-1900's, so my soul is out there.  If they could do it , I can do it.     When you have a chance post some new pictures.  How do I contact those that have pictures on this site?  I tried but the send message would never open for me to write to anyone.  I guess I will just have to go and figure out the names and go from there.  Hope I can find their email address and just transport them to the Yahoo group.   Well work is calling and the 18 inches of snow on the ground make me want to stay in doors.   Calle and the gang   reply interspersed calle vallede wrote: Hi Spaceman,    Wow had a great time going through your pages. Is the dome house done, as in livable?  I lived in the big dome from 2001 until 2008. I had to spend a year doing parental care, then moved into the small dome in February of this year. I'm still adding papercrete but have about R12 at the thinnest part, and R48 over about half of it so far.     We have so much to do yet before we get started. Do not have the cash to do the steel dome thing. Will just have to do the PC walls and inner walls.  Trying to get water to the site in the early spring. I have experimented with making domes without a frame, casting pc triangles and then putting them together as a panel dome. However, you can often get scrap pipe from construction sites since electricians commonly throw away any conduit shorter than 5' at the end of the day. Even if you have to buy the tubing, you can make a frame for a 16' dome from a couple of hundred dollars worth of pipe.     You said that you were doing the heated floor system, yes?  Are you putting in a terra tile floor? Right now my floor is 2" of concrete floating on 10" (+/-) of papercrete. I'll possibly cover it with ceramic tile from Mexico, but have not finalized my plans. I may just do a textured and stained concrete cap.   Owen Grieger or what ever his name is the Mr. Hart from Colo have a page that tells about using road base for it.  As we will be off the grid we need to use all the methods that we can to stay warm and use as little power as possible.   Have you ever found a way to make a steam system work to create power as in a generator? Thought that in the winter with a wood burner and a wood cook stove may be able to capture some of that heat for a power source.  I am not a person with the background to build that kind of thing, but am willing to learn from others and use the web. Steam is dangerous at the pressures needed to generate power, not something for a novice to play with. You can generate electricity directly from heat by using Peltier devices, though they aren't exactly dirt cheap. Another alternative might be using woodgas to run a generator.   Right now need a good book on passive solar.  We will use passive solar and wind power for our off the grid living. I have pv panels and a small wind generator. I bought them used at about half the retail cost. I am still connected to the grid for large loads like welders and power tools that would deplete my small storage bank rapidly. Can't recommend a book, though. spaceman     Thanks again,   Calle

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Re: [papercreters] Happy New Year Everyone

Hi Clare,   Can you post some pictures of your press?  I was thinking after seeing some of the pictures at this site of doing smaller forms to build up the walls.  But all new info helps me come up with better plans.      What a wonderful thing to get all the paper in that manner.  We will have to haul ours much father, as the county only has 900 people in thousands of acres.  I think I will put an ad on the radio that I will drive to town one day a week and pick up all the paper I can. Also will try to find a business that does alot of shredding.   Our home now is 6 hours from our building site , so we have to make hay while the sunshines when we have the materials and the weather.   Happy New Year to All,  You are such a blessing to me.   Calle --- On Thu, 12/31/09, smt460 <smt460@yahoo.com> wrote: From: smt460 <smt460@yahoo.com> Subject: [papercreters] Happy New Year Everyone To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 10:07 AM   Well im back ,God redirected me for a year but still progressing .We have been idle as to doing anything with the blocks .I did rework the press its now verticle and is standing lonely out in the snow still spring.Bruce is working on the hammer mill to get it going for spring.I have come across two large mixers and a big silo from a friend at church he said we can have them and are run by v8 motors,will go see them and post some pics .He said they are about 1000 gallon mixers.He has also offerd some land to set up on aswell and is just outside city limits on the way to the land fill,all the cardboard is being dumped there now as its to far to Edmonton to recycle it so we can have it deliverd for free,plus 30 cubic meters of shreded document paper a day.We are still waiting for a report on the waste frac cement,the landfill was going to sell it off but was shut down as to conflict of intrest threw the city bylaws????? so they are now stuck with 9 silos of this stuff and want to get rid of it.Will just wait and see what happens lol. Thats it for now Happy New Year, Clair,Bruce Alberta Canada

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[papercreters] Thanks Nolan... Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Stucco sprayer, finsh papercrete mix.

Hi Nolan,   Thanks for you advice.  Just came upon some good books today that Charmaine had sent with a messages. I now want to buy everyone of them, but money does not allow.    Has anyone used or read "The Greal Goods Indpendent Builder Designing and Building  A House Your Own Way"?   I have designed two houses but the first is my dream, but afraid of the tax man.  The second is not working for me.  I have to get this done soon, as we have to submitt (our own thoughts) to the county assessor for taxing reasons.  The area where we are building does not have tons of building codes but I want no surprises at all with those folks.   I plan on sending a book list if this guy is interested.  The only reason we will submit a materials list is that they tax you on materials, labor and sq footage.  We want them to see how low cost is it, as we have all used doors, windows, trim etc.   I have to have well thought out plans , I am not a let's just try this or that, I need a plan. Out in the sticks you have to be ready for most everything.   So I want to build and then spray it with the final coats.  Can one put a colorant in the final coat, so you don't have to paint it later?  We want it to blend with the land, do not want a city house in the country.   You all know what I mean , a house that blend with the landscape so it looks part of it.   My first step may be to finish the outside of an old mobile home if we can get it cheap enough, so that I have an on site place to live.   It would add insulation to the mh so that it would be better in the winter time.  It could then become part of the total design.   We are such novices, so all of your advice is so wonderfull.   Our 15 year old son will be the only one out there with me almost 99 percent of the time.  There are so many things to think of, and I do not have a long time to get this project done.  It needs to be completed as much as possible before the snow falls next winter.   I do not want to move back to the city, but continue on cold days to get as much done as possible.   Any and all words of wisdom will be well taken.   Time to hit the store, weekly sales ending, so must tear myself away from my love, learning how to build alternative homes.   Calle and the gang --- On Thu, 12/31/09, nolanscheid <nolan@mortarsprayer.com> wrote: From: nolanscheid <nolan@mortarsprayer.com> Subject: [papercreters] Re: Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Stucco sprayer, finsh papercrete mix. To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 11:08 AM   Good morning Calle and everyone, You have found one of the best groups on the net for up to date information on PC. There are lots of people here that are happy to help. Spaceman has done a great job of sharing home built versions of sprayers. He has also come up with inventive ways to mix and build. His site is worth seeing for details. Mikey Sklar and Bob Merrill have the updated versions of our plaster sprayer. They can share first hand papercrete spraying advice. Bob has done amazing work with Papercrete while building in a wet climates. He technique is to spray a thin layer all the way around the structure and then come back and do another lift. This gives time for the maximum surface area to dry the mix. Bob Merrill also uses the sprayers for papercrete stucco as a finishing mix. A couple years ago we made a family trip to Northern Washington and saw one of the most beautiful hand finished homes I had ever been in. Bob started with a barn that needed to be quickly turned in to a house for a family with several children. His papercrete stucco had a workable texture that was much easier to apply than some traditional cement mix stucco. The end result was something that should have been in a magazine. When you get to finishing your home, I would suggest contacting Bob and getting the details. The new stucco sprayers have several improvements that I have wanted to do for some time. There is still a non-rusting hopper but now we have added a sturdy handle to the back of it for a new grip point. We also made the jets unscrew so they can be replaced if clogged and adjusted to match the compressor you have. The standard size jets are installed the hopper sprayer and the larger jets are with the cleaning kit. If you have a larger compressor, you can switch to the larger jets and spray the plaster harder. (This can also help remove some extra water in the spraying). We feel very fortunate to be offering a made in the USA product. Our goal is to help people build great homes. We have an updated web site at www.mortarsprayer. com . It now includes resource areas. One of the resource sections I will be working to expand is the papercrete section. If anyone has pictures of successful projects or details they would like to share, please let me know. I would like to say thank you to everyone on this list that has done so much to help others get started building. There are great things happening here on the list. From now through the end of January, please let us know that you are on the list and we will offer free shipping when you buy a sprayer. Best regards, Nolan Scheid www.mortarsprayer. com --- In papercreters@ yahoogroups. com, "valledecalle" <valledecalle@ ...> wrote: > > Greetings All, > > Have continued my education via the web, have watched others blowing papercrete like they do stucco.

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[papercreters] Re: Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Stucco sprayer, finsh papercrete mix.

Good morning Calle and everyone,
You have found one of the best groups on the net for up to date information on PC. There are lots of people here that are happy to help. Spaceman has done a great job of sharing home built versions of sprayers. He has also come up with inventive ways to mix and build. His site is worth seeing for details.
Mikey Sklar and Bob Merrill have the updated versions of our plaster sprayer. They can share first hand papercrete spraying advice.
Bob has done amazing work with Papercrete while building in a wet climates. He technique is to spray a thin layer all the way around the structure and then come back and do another lift. This gives time for the maximum surface area to dry the mix.

Bob Merrill also uses the sprayers for papercrete stucco as a finishing mix. A couple years ago we made a family trip to Northern Washington and saw one of the most beautiful hand finished homes I had ever been in. Bob started with a barn that needed to be quickly turned in to a house for a family with several children. His papercrete stucco had a workable texture that was much easier to apply than some traditional cement mix stucco. The end result was something that should have been in a magazine. When you get to finishing your home, I would suggest contacting Bob and getting the details.

The new stucco sprayers have several improvements that I have wanted to do for some time. There is still a non-rusting hopper but now we have added a sturdy handle to the back of it for a new grip point. We also made the jets unscrew so they can be replaced if clogged and adjusted to match the compressor you have. The standard size jets are installed the hopper sprayer and the larger jets are with the cleaning kit. If you have a larger compressor, you can switch to the larger jets and spray the plaster harder. (This can also help remove some extra water in the spraying).

We feel very fortunate to be offering a made in the USA product. Our goal is to help people build great homes. We have an updated web site at www.mortarsprayer.com . It now includes resource areas. One of the resource sections I will be working to expand is the papercrete section. If anyone has pictures of successful projects or details they would like to share, please let me know.

I would like to say thank you to everyone on this list that has done so much to help others get started building. There are great things happening here on the list. From now through the end of January, please let us know that you are on the list and we will offer free shipping when you buy a sprayer.

Best regards,
Nolan Scheid
www.mortarsprayer.com

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> Greetings All,
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Re: [papercreters] Thanks so much Spaceman...Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books?

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calle vallede wrote:

Hi Spaceman,    Wow had a great time going through your pages. Is the dome house done, as in livable?

I lived in the big dome from 2001 until 2008. I had to spend a year doing parental care, then moved into the small dome in February of this year. I'm still adding papercrete but have about R12 at the thinnest part, and R48 over about half of it so far.

We have so much to do yet before we get started. Do not have the cash to do the steel dome thing. Will just have to do the PC walls and inner walls.  Trying to get water to the site in the early spring.

I have experimented with making domes without a frame, casting pc triangles and then putting them together as a panel dome. However, you can often get scrap pipe from construction sites since electricians commonly throw away any conduit shorter than 5' at the end of the day. Even if you have to buy the tubing, you can make a frame for a 16' dome from a couple of hundred dollars worth of pipe.

You said that you were doing the heated floor system, yes?  Are you putting in a terra tile floor?

Right now my floor is 2" of concrete floating on 10" (+/-) of papercrete. I'll possibly cover it with ceramic tile from Mexico, but have not finalized my plans. I may just do a textured and stained concrete cap.

Owen Grieger or what ever his name is the Mr. Hart from Colo have a page that tells about using road base for it.  As we will be off the grid we need to use all the methods that we can to stay warm and use as little power as possible.   Have you ever found a way to make a steam system work to create power as in a generator? Thought that in the winter with a wood burner and a wood cook stove may be able to capture some of that heat for a power source.  I am not a person with the background to build that kind of thing, but am willing to learn from others and use the web.

Steam is dangerous at the pressures needed to generate power, not something for a novice to play with. You can generate electricity directly from heat by using Peltier devices, though they aren't exactly dirt cheap. Another alternative might be using woodgas to run a generator.

Right now need a good book on passive solar.  We will use passive solar and wind power for our off the grid living.

I have pv panels and a small wind generator. I bought them used at about half the retail cost. I am still connected to the grid for large loads like welders and power tools that would deplete my small storage bank rapidly. Can't recommend a book, though.

spaceman

Thanks again,   Calle

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[papercreters] Happy New Year Everyone

Well im back ,God redirected me for a year but still progressing .We have been idle as to doing anything with the blocks .I did rework the press its now verticle and is standing lonely out in the snow still spring.Bruce is working on the hammer mill to get it going for spring.I have come across two large mixers and a big silo from a friend at church he said we can have them and are run by v8 motors,will go see them and post some pics .He said they are about 1000 gallon mixers.He has also offerd some land to set up on aswell and is just outside city limits on the way to the land fill,all the cardboard is being dumped there now as its to far to Edmonton to recycle it so we can have it deliverd for free,plus 30 cubic meters of shreded document paper a day.We are still waiting for a report on the waste frac cement,the landfill was going to sell it off but was shut down as to conflict of intrest threw the city bylaws????? so they are now stuck with 9 silos of this stuff and want to get rid of it.Will just wait and see what happens lol. Thats it for now Happy New Year, Clair,Bruce Alberta Canada

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[papercreters] Thanks Charmaine great sprayer for PC- & newer solar books

Thanks Charmaine,       Will check out the sprayers in a week or so.  I went to the picture section of this site, but most just put no words or so few for the novice it is hard to write the story to the pictures.   When  you mention the popcorn effect, is there another attachment that allows for spaying it more smoothly for enterior walls?  Hard to hang shelves and pictures on popcorn!  Also have other done celings with the pc mixture?     We had thought of doing a terra tile floor as first introduced to us by David Easton, then more recently by Owen Grieger (wrong spelling I think) the engineer that designs earthbag and other alternative house plans.  Perhaps pc floors would transfer heated water better, and be easier to clean and maintain with kids, boots and country dirt?   The book you mentioned is the one our library had, but not the last addition.  Will see if I can find it, or look on line at view the table of contents.   His whole premise has been the solar pad that a house is set on.  We do not want the cost of cement as it will put the cost of the house over the top, the county will charge us outlandish taxes.   Maybe he has changed his methods.  Thanks so much.   So why aren't you going to write books?  Maybe after a long rest!   Thanks Charmaine,   Calle   PS, so you sell all of the cheap builder books, just caught your email address name.  Will try to find the time to go to your site. Although this is a bad time of year for us to buy.  Homeowners ins due, car lic due, house taxes and land taxes coming up soon.  You know the story!         --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Charmaine Taylor <dirtcheapbuilderbooks@gmail.com> wrote: From: Charmaine Taylor <dirtcheapbuilderbooks@gmail.com> Subject: [papercreters] great sprayer for PC- & newer solar books To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 10:58 PM   1. Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? HI-  Yes you can spray papercrete if it is a wet enough/thin enough mix to not clog.I tested out the sprayer 7 years ago with several different mixes- clay slip, lime plaster, various papercrete mixes, lime/clay combos, etc. leaves a nice popcorn texture for adding another layer,  they have several 'write-ups' on the site PC experimentor and builder Miky Skylar uses the www.mortarsprayer.com    Stucco Sprayer by  Tirolessa USA    AKA: www.stuccosprayer.com ( Eugene OR) to spray walls, privacy fence, and there  are video loops on this  on the site. ABOUT STUCCO SPRAYERS: We sell and service the TirolessaUsa plaster sprayer that sprays a wide variety of mixes. For instance, vertical concrete, plaster,  cement stucco, GFRC, traditional lime plaster and much more. Our commercial plaster sprayers are economical and make applying stucco and plaster fast and easy. You can contact us anytime at nolan@mortarsprayer.com or call anytime at 541-683-4167, We offer free advice and are happy to help you with your projects. Passive Solar Books?   a NEW Passive Solar book with a  CD of info included "The Passive Solar House, Revised and Expanded Edition The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home" by James Kachadorian          $40.00 Revised and Expanded Edition—Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design Software For the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using readily available materials and methods familiar to all building contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners. True to this innovative, straightforward approach, the new edition of this best-selling guide includes CSOL passive solar design software, making it easier than ever to heat your home with the power of the sun. Since The Passive Solar House was first published, passive solar construction expert James Kachadorian has perfected user-friendly, Windows-compatible software to supplement the design process explained in the book by allowing homeowners/designers to enter the specifications of their design and see how changing a variable will affect its energy efficiency. 2ND BOOKS The Solar House Passive Heating and Cooling by Dan Chiras 3rd BOOK- The New Solar Electric Home The Complete Guide to Photovoltaics for Your Home--3RD EDITION by Fran Orner, Joel Davidson    ALSO 39.95 The original Photovoltaics How-To Handbook, acclaimed as "the Best of the Books," is now revised, expanded & updated for our New Age of Photovoltaics. Condensing years of hands-on & industry experience, PV pioneers Joel Davidson & Fran Orner tell you everything you need to know to go solar. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE-  OR TRY  www.hollowtop.com who carries these books for sale Charmaine Taylor Publishing RETIRING on JAN 15  from the bookstore-but not writing books! visit for 2 FREE books ( links in pdf format) free to ALL! www.dirtcheapbuilder.com ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/ <*> Your email settings:     Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to:     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/join     (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email:     papercreters-digest@yahoogroups.com     papercreters-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:     papercreters-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:     http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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[papercreters] great sprayer for PC- & newer solar books

1. Blowing Papercrete like stucco???

HI- Yes you can spray papercrete if it is a wet enough/thin enough
mix to not clog.I tested out the sprayer 7 years ago with several
different mixes- clay slip, lime plaster, various papercrete mixes,
lime/clay combos, etc. leaves a nice popcorn texture for adding
another layer, they have several 'write-ups' on the site

PC experimentor and builder Miky Skylar uses the
www.mortarsprayer.com Stucco Sprayer by Tirolessa USA AKA:
www.stuccosprayer.com ( Eugene OR) to spray walls, privacy fence, and
there are video loops on this on the site.

ABOUT STUCCO SPRAYERS: We sell and service the TirolessaUsa plaster
sprayer that sprays a wide variety of mixes. For instance, vertical
concrete, plaster, cement stucco, GFRC, traditional lime plaster and
much more. Our commercial plaster sprayers are economical and make
applying stucco and plaster fast and easy. You can contact us anytime
at nolan@mortarsprayer.com or call anytime at 541-683-4167, We offer
free advice and are happy to help you with your projects.

Passive Solar Books?

a NEW Passive Solar book with a CD of info included

"The Passive Solar House, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Complete Guide to Heating and Cooling Your Home"
by James Kachadorian $40.00

Revised and Expanded Edition—Includes CD-ROM with Custom Design Software

For the past ten years The Passive Solar House has offered proven
techniques for building homes that heat and cool themselves, using
readily available materials and methods familiar to all building
contractors and many do-it-yourself homeowners.

True to this innovative, straightforward approach, the new edition of
this best-selling guide includes CSOL passive solar design software,
making it easier than ever to heat your home with the power of the
sun. Since The Passive Solar House was first published, passive solar
construction expert James Kachadorian has perfected user-friendly,
Windows-compatible software to supplement the design process explained
in the book by allowing homeowners/designers to enter the
specifications of their design and see how changing a variable will
affect its energy efficiency.

2ND BOOKS
The Solar House Passive Heating and Cooling by Dan Chiras

3rd BOOK-

The New Solar Electric Home
The Complete Guide to Photovoltaics for Your Home--3RD EDITION
by Fran Orner, Joel Davidson ALSO 39.95

The original Photovoltaics How-To Handbook, acclaimed as "the Best of
the Books," is now revised, expanded & updated for our New Age of
Photovoltaics. Condensing years of hands-on & industry experience, PV
pioneers Joel Davidson & Fran Orner tell you everything you need to
know to go solar.

CONTACT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE- OR TRY www.hollowtop.com
who carries these books for sale

Charmaine Taylor Publishing
RETIRING on JAN 15 from the bookstore-but not writing books!
visit for 2 FREE books ( links in pdf format) free to ALL!
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[papercreters] Thanks HNY Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books?

Greetings, HNY   Thanks for the resources, I will see if the library can get the book, ususally always check out these books before purchase.   With having Rammed Earth, Strawbale, Earthbag and Ceramic Buildings on my shelves, I am now into PC and know that this is for us.   But all the info has to gel first.  With only a wood stove and passive solar it is so important to do it right the first time.   Will try a pump house or a shed first or something to practice.   I am so amazed at the talent of so many I have met here and on the web.   Found one guy who was using PC and pop cans for a garden thing .  Another was doing stepping stones.     Someone had even done a pond.   Happy New Year,   Calle --- On Wed, 12/30/09, DVB_Batam <dvb@techie.com> wrote: From: DVB_Batam <dvb@techie.com> Subject: [papercreters] Re: Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books? To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 1:34 AM   The below 358 page book is a good (I got it as a gift) - but is quite technical with math formula's in quite a few places. Outside of those, it does have great diagrams and info, I.E, about thermal comfort, stack effect. And onwards into Light and Sonic environment. Good data sheets for each section, I.E: thermal properties, and sonic properties, of all kinds of materials. This info in itself is very helpful to possibly some wiser choices. ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCE - The Basis of Sustainable Design, Second edition 2008 On Amazon it's not exactly cheap at $47.20 http://www.amazon. com/Introduction -Architectural- Science-Sustaina ble-Design/ dp/0750658495 On that same page is a link to what looks to be good and a lot cheaper at $11.61: Thermal Delight in Architecture Cheers !! HNY !! ============ ====dvb== ========= ===== --- In papercreters@ yahoogroups. com, "valledecalle" <valledecalle@ ...> wrote: > > Greetings All, > > Have continued my education via the web, have watched others blowing papercrete like they do stucco. > > Have any of you ever tried this? What is the tool they are using. It is a regular stucco application tool? > > We have so much to learn, and so little time to learn it in. > > Also are there any newer Passive Solar books out there. The one reference I found on line is a book from the early 90's, great info, but maybe something newer. > > Thanks and Happy New Year. > > If any of you live in a Papercrete home, have you posted pictures and I just don't know about them? > > Calle >

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[papercreters] Thanks so much Spaceman...Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books?

Hi Spaceman,    Wow had a great time going through your pages. Is the dome house done, as in livable?       We have so much to do yet before we get started. Do not have the cash to do the steel dome thing. Will just have to do the PC walls and inner walls.  Trying to get water to the site in the early spring.     You said that you were doing the heated floor system, yes?  Are you putting in a terra tile floor?   Owen Grieger or what ever his name is the Mr. Hart from Colo have a page that tells about using road base for it.  As we will be off the grid we need to use all the methods that we can to stay warm and use as little power as possible.   Have you ever found a way to make a steam system work to create power as in a generator? Thought that in the winter with a wood burner and a wood cook stove may be able to capture some of that heat for a power source.  I am not a person with the background to build that kind of thing, but am willing to learn from others and use the web.    Right now need a good book on passive solar.  We will use passive solar and wind power for our off the grid living.     Thanks again,   Calle --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Spaceman <Spaceman@starship-enterprises.net> wrote: From: Spaceman <Spaceman@starship-enterprises.net> Subject: Re: [papercreters] Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books? To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 9:06 AM   I've done a bit of spraying, with a home made tool. Some people use the Tirolessa sprayer, which is more expensive. I have considered trying a drywall texture tool, but have not yet. My experience indicates that you need a good compressor with a large tank if you want to spray continuously. My compressor with a 30 gallon tank and 7.5cfm head can not keep up, will let me spray for 15-20 minutes and then I have to take a ten minute break and let it recharge. I think 14-16cfm might be enough for continuous work, or another sprayer might be more efficient. I like spraying onto vertical surfaces, you can build up a couple of inches thick in one session, and it sticks well. Get too thick and it'll all slide to the ground. You can apply directly to stucco mesh without very much blow through. Spraying is not nearly as fast as slip forming, but lets you do more intricate shapes. Don't know if you've seen my pc house pix, they are not in the group area, are on my website. The dome I'm living in now has a webpage from a previous incarnation. I sold it and then after a couple of years it came back home (long story) so I put it together again and moved into it, now using the big dome as storage/workshop. The small dome has hydronic tubes in the floor, about to be connected to a solar collector and storage tank. Not totally passive, I will use a small solar powered pump. For summer cooling I'm going to try night sky radiation to chill a tank of water. Even without that, it is livable even in the desert 105 degree temperatures. spaceman valledecalle wrote: Greetings All, Have continued my education via the web, have watched others blowing papercrete like they do stucco. Have any of you ever tried this? What is the tool they are using. It is a regular stucco application tool? We have so much to learn, and so little time to learn it in. Also are there any newer Passive Solar books out there. The one reference I found on line is a book from the early 90's, great info, but maybe something newer. Thanks and Happy New Year. If any of you live in a Papercrete home, have you posted pictures and I just don't know about them? Calle ------------ --------- --------- ------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/papercrete rs/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/papercrete rs/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: papercreters- digest@yahoogrou ps.com papercreters- fullfeatured@ yahoogroups. com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: papercreters- unsubscribe@ yahoogroups. com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs. yahoo.com/ info/terms/ Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.430 / Virus Database: 270.14.117/2583 - Release Date: 12/23/09 08:28:00

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Re: [papercreters] Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books?

I've done a bit of spraying, with a home made tool. Some people use the Tirolessa sprayer, which is more expensive. I have considered trying a drywall texture tool, but have not yet. My experience indicates that you need a good compressor with a large tank if you want to spray continuously. My compressor with a 30 gallon tank and 7.5cfm head can not keep up, will let me spray for 15-20 minutes and then I have to take a ten minute break and let it recharge. I think 14-16cfm might be enough for continuous work, or another sprayer might be more efficient.

I like spraying onto vertical surfaces, you can build up a couple of inches thick in one session, and it sticks well. Get too thick and it'll all slide to the ground. You can apply directly to stucco mesh without very much blow through. Spraying is not nearly as fast as slip forming, but lets you do more intricate shapes.

Don't know if you've seen my pc house pix, they are not in the group area, are on my website. The dome I'm living in now has a webpage from a previous incarnation. I sold it and then after a couple of years it came back home (long story) so I put it together again and moved into it, now using the big dome as storage/workshop. The small dome has hydronic tubes in the floor, about to be connected to a solar collector and storage tank. Not totally passive, I will use a small solar powered pump. For summer cooling I'm going to try night sky radiation to chill a tank of water. Even without that, it is livable even in the desert 105 degree temperatures.

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[papercreters] Re: Blowing Papercrete like stucco??? Passive Solar Books?

The below 358 page book is a good (I got it as a gift) - but is quite technical with math formula's in quite a few places. Outside of those, it does have great diagrams and info, I.E, about thermal comfort, stack effect. And onwards into Light and Sonic environment. Good data sheets for each section, I.E: thermal properties, and sonic properties, of all kinds of materials. This info in itself is very helpful to possibly some wiser choices.

ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCE - The Basis of Sustainable Design, Second edition 2008

On Amazon it's not exactly cheap at $47.20

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Architectural-Science-Sustainable-Design/dp/0750658495

On that same page is a link to what looks to be good and a lot cheaper at $11.61:
Thermal Delight in Architecture

Cheers !! HNY !!
================dvb================
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "valledecalle" <valledecalle@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings All,
>
> Have continued my education via the web, have watched others blowing papercrete like they do stucco.
>
> Have any of you ever tried this? What is the tool they are using. It is a regular stucco application tool?
>
> We have so much to learn, and so little time to learn it in.
>
> Also are there any newer Passive Solar books out there. The one reference I found on line is a book from the early 90's, great info, but maybe something newer.
>
> Thanks and Happy New Year.
>
> If any of you live in a Papercrete home, have you posted pictures and I just don't know about them?
>
> Calle
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Greetings All,

Have continued my education via the web, have watched others blowing papercrete like they do stucco.

Have any of you ever tried this? What is the tool they are using. It is a regular stucco application tool?

We have so much to learn, and so little time to learn it in.

Also are there any newer Passive Solar books out there. The one reference I found on line is a book from the early 90's, great info, but maybe something newer.

Thanks and Happy New Year.

If any of you live in a Papercrete home, have you posted pictures and I just don't know about them?

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[papercreters] MC to all and To All A Good night...Surviving & building the future-When Technology Fails, A Manual For Self Reliance

So happy that you are safe.  We are having a blizzard here, safe at home, the baby that had been kidnapped is home safe, the dad is still on the lamb.  Praise be.   I have the book on Earthbag building, we were going to do this method, but the work of bagging the earth was too much.  We were even going to buy a grain elevator,the kind that goes on the back of a tractor's power takeoff, makes it much easier to auger the dirt up to the walls.   The other one sounds interesting.   Merry Christmas to all and Too All A Good night, too much Cheese cake, and chocolater fondue.   Calle --- On Thu, 12/24/09, Charmaine Taylor <dirtcheapbuilderbooks@gmail.com> wrote: From: Charmaine Taylor <dirtcheapbuilderbooks@gmail.com> Subject: [papercreters] Surviving & building the future-When Technology Fails, A Manual For Self Reliance To: organic_architecture@yahoogroups.com Cc: coblist@deatech.com Date: Thursday, December 24, 2009, 4:54 PM Cheerful greetings!   I found a  big book online to download, plus others you can search for at this FREE site.       www.slideshare.net    where people upload their books and presentations.  this one below is 400 pages on    "homesteading & self reliance" everything from spider bites to extending harvest in cold climates.   my little 'gift' to you all. I will write this once, on Christmas eve, I hope no one minds, but I am happy to be alive today to send it. While driving for Christmas at friend's  on Friday night  I was struck in a head on collision that completely totaled my Subaru Forester, and I  was able to walk  away alive  at the scene. Of course I can't drive now for a while, and need to recover from the impact shock and   injuries. So,  PLEASE always wear your seat belt, and if you can choose a safer car  next time you need one, please DO.. The ONLY reason I am alive now is  my 7 year old  Subaru took the impact of the head on- estimated at 100+ mph blow. The  guy in a truck at fault (impatiently trying to pass  a slower car, into my lane on a two lane road)    made it too, and my car protected me. So I feel blessed to share this-- and I want to OFFER  all of you the two free books I am giving to customers, just email me and I will send you the link to download Earthbag Building  tools & tips by Kaki Hunter,  $29 and Appropriate Building Materials from the UK- $33.. see them  here:  http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com/adandearbuil.html Charmaine Taylor- really ready to retire now! RETIRING on JAN 15  from the bookstore- visit for 2 FREE books (pdf) with any order! www.dirtcheapbuilder.com When Technology Fails, A Manual For Self Reliance http://www.slideshare.net/mrhempAThotmailDOTcom/stein-matthew-when-technology-fails-a-manual-for-self-reliance-amp-planetary-survival-2000 ALSO    Ralph waldo Emerson   - self reliance http://www.slideshare.net/mumphrey/excerpt-emersons-self-reliance-presentation   Table of Contents I An Introduction to Self-Reliance I Flint and Steel • Starting a Fire with Bow and Drill • Starting a Fire with a Hand Drill • An Uncertain Future I Starting a Fire with a Fire Plough Why This Book 2 Food 57 Preindustrial Self-Sufficiency 3 Basic Guidelines • Plants • Insects, Grubs, and Old-Fashioned Self-Reliance and Modern Worms Sustainable Technology 4 Shelter 59 References 5 Location • Squirrel's Nest • Building on Fallen Trunks and Trees • Scout Pits and Coal Beds • II Present Trends, Possible Futures Snow Shelters 7 Emergency Snow Shoes 61 Current Trends 7 Cordage 62 Sustainability and Limits to Growth Recommended Plant Fibers • Fiber Test • Preparing Oil Reserves 9 Fibers • Spinning Fibers into Cord • Splicing Water and Food IO Simple Tools 64 What about the Weather? IO Discoidal Stone Knives • Bone Tools Systems Modeling and Systems Response References & Resources 66 Earthquakes and Volcanoes i8 Prophecies 20 V Water 7° What Can I Do? 21 Water Requirements 7° Planning for the Future 22 Stocking Up for Emergencies 7° The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon • Guidelines for Coping with Disaster 71 Effective Action 2 5 Water Pollution 71 References & Resources Types of Contamination III Supplies & Preparation Disinfecting Your Water 74 31 Are You Prepared? Heat Sterilization • Portable Water Filters • My 3l Filter Recommendations • Chemical Planning for the Short Term 32 Sterilization Short- Term Preparedness Checklist • 72-Hour Preserving Water by Using Silver 80 Survival Kits • First Aid Kits • Earthquake Using Silver to Preserve Water Precautions • A Short-Term Survival Manual Treating and Finding Water the Low-Tech Way 80 Longer-Term Planning and Storage 35 Treating Water • Finding Water • Wells Basic Supplies and Portable Equipment • Protecting Your Water Source 86 Calculating a Year's Food Supply • Storage Tips • Modern Water Treatment 87 Dry Ice Fumigation • Vacuum Packaging • Chlorine Treatment • Ozone Treatment • Shelf Life Guide Activated Carbon Filtration • Reverse Osmosis • Notes on Camping Gear 40 Distillation Tents • Clothing • Sleeping Bags • Insulating References & Camping Gear 40 Distillation Tents • Clothing • Sleeping Bags • Insulating References & Resources 89 Sleeping Mats • Backpacks • Stoves • Cookware • Footgear 42 VI Food: Growing, Foraging, Hunting Planning for the Long-Term Future 43 & Storing 91 References & Resources World Population and Food Supply 91 IV Emergency Measures for Survival 46 Agricultural Productivity • Irrigation Gains and Survival Strategies 46 Losses • Soil Health and Soil Losses • Basic Strategies • Compact Survival Kit Sustainable Agriculture Developing a Survivor Personality 50 "Grow Biointensive" 97 Typical Survivor Personality Traits • Intuition: A Double-Dug, Raised Beds • Intensive Planting • Survivor's Powerful Ally Composting • Companion Planting • Whole Water Gardening • Seed Propagation • Pest Control • Requirements • Recommended Emergency Extending the Harvest in Cold Climates Measures • Dehydration • Conserving Water Sprouting: Your Own Minigarden on a Fire 53 Windowsill 105 Starting a Fire with Matches • Starting a Fire with The Sprouting Process 6. Foraging for Food 107 Symptoms • Treatment for Shock Brief Guide to Wild Edible Foods • Poisonous Fractures and Dislocations i87 Plants to Avoid General Guidelines for Treating Dislocations and Preserving and Storing Food Fractures • Special Precautions for Fractures • Root Cellars and Other Cold Storage • "5 Reducing Dislocations • Sprains and Strains Drying and Smoking Food • Bites and Stings 191 Preserving Meat Animal Bites • Snake Bites • Spider Bites • Tick Dairy, Tofu, and Tempeh 117 Bites • Stings Making Butter • Ghee • Yogurt • Cheese • Making Eyes 192 Rennet for Cheese First Aid for Foreign Object in Eye Raising Animals 120 Moving Injured People 193 Hunting and Trapping 121 Clothing Drag for Single Rescuer • Multi-Helper Bow and Arrow • Traps • Skinning and Cleaning "Stretcher" Rescue • One- and Two-Person Fishing 125 Carries Angling • Catching Fish by Hand • Spearing Fish • Emergency Childbirth i97 Fishing with Nets Signs of Impending Delivery • Stages of Labor • References & Resources 128 Emergency Childbirth Supplies • Delivery • After Delivery VII Shelter & Buildings i31 References Green Buildings i31 Rammed Earth 139 IX Low-Tech Medicine & Healing 202 The Process • Soils • Moisture Test • The Forms • The Holistic Health Movement 203 Wall Systems • Windows and Doors The Low-Tech Medicine Cabinet 203 Adobe H5 The Essence of Healing 207 Modern Adobe Methods • Adobe Blocks • Adobe Genetics and Cellular Growth • Body Energy Walls • Adobe Roofs Colloidal Silver 208 Cast Earth H9 Healing with Herbs Straw Bales H9 Types of Herbal Preparations • Powerful Herbal In-Fill (Non-Load-Bearing) Straw Bale Combinations for Better Health • Caisse's Tea Construction • Load-Bearing Straw Bale (Essiac) • Jason Winters' Herbal Tea • Dr. Construction • Finishing Straw Bale Walls Clark's Herbal Parasite Cleanse • Kidney Building with Insulated Concrete Forms 153 Cleanse • Liver Cleanse Pumice-Crete Detoxification Passive Solar Design Naturopathic Healing • Fasting Passive Solar "Rules of Thumb" • James Supplements and Food 223 Kachadorian's Patented Solar Slab Homeopathy 224 Traditional Low-Tech Structures i58 The Origins of Homeopathy • Homeopathic Log Cabins • Timber Frame Construction • Tipis, "Potencies" • Effectiveness of Homeopathy • Yurts, Wickiups, and Wigwams Homeopathy Practices Earthquake Resistance i65 227 Healing with Energy Improving Earthquake Resistance The Power of Prayer 228 References & Resources 167 230 Shamanic Healing Hypnosis for Pain Control and Healing 231 VIII First Aid 1 j6 Fractional Relaxation Induction • Hypnotic Initial Evaluation IJ6 Suggestion • Awakening Technique 2 Survey the Scene • Consent and Liability Visualization and Mind-Body Healing 35 ABCs of First Aid 177 General Guidelines • Visualization for Mending a Treatment Priority • Unconscious Victim Broken Bone • Egyptian Healing Visualization Some Notes on Death and Dying 236 CPR 180 References & Resources 257 Survey for Injuries and Control Bleeding 181 Pressure Points • Tourniquets Wounds 183 X Clothing & Textiles 25I Abrasions • Incisions • Puncture Wounds • Fiber Arts 2 5I Abdominal Wounds • Head Wounds • Chest Preparing Fibers • Sustainable Fibers • Spinning • Wounds Weaving • Knitting and Crocheting Choking Furs and Skins 258 Heimlich Maneuver Brain Tanning Overview • Dealing with Furs • Bandages and Dressings Bark Tanning Leather Patterns and Custom-Tailored Clothing 267 ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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[papercreters] Surviving & building the future-When Technology Fails, A Manual For Self Reliance

Cheerful greetings! I found a big book online to download, plus
others you can search for at this FREE site. www.slideshare.net
where people upload their books and presentations. this one below
is 400 pages on "homesteading & self reliance" everything from
spider bites to extending harvest in cold climates. my little 'gift'
to you all.

I will write this once, on Christmas eve, I hope no one minds, but I
am happy to be alive today to send it.

While driving for Christmas at friend's on Friday night I was struck
in a head on collision that completely totaled my Subaru Forester,
and I was able to walk away alive at the scene.

Of course I can't drive now for a while, and need to recover from the
impact shock and injuries.

So, PLEASE always wear your seat belt, and if you can choose a safer
car next time you need one, please DO..

The ONLY reason I am alive now is my 7 year old Subaru took the
impact of the head on- estimated at 100+ mph blow. The guy in a truck
at fault (impatiently trying to pass a slower car, into my lane on a
two lane road) made it too, and my car protected me.

So I feel blessed to share this-- and I want to OFFER all of you the
two free books I am giving to customers, just email me and I will send
you the link to download Earthbag Building tools & tips by Kaki
Hunter, $29 and Appropriate Building Materials from the UK- $33..
see them here: http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com/adandearbuil.html

Charmaine Taylor- really ready to retire now!
RETIRING on JAN 15 from the bookstore-
visit for 2 FREE books (pdf) with any order!
www.dirtcheapbuilder.com

When Technology Fails, A Manual For Self Reliance

http://www.slideshare.net/mrhempAThotmailDOTcom/stein-matthew-when-technology-fails-a-manual-for-self-reliance-amp-planetary-survival-2000

ALSO Ralph waldo Emerson - self reliance
http://www.slideshare.net/mumphrey/excerpt-emersons-self-reliance-presentation

Table of Contents I An Introduction to Self-Reliance I Flint and
Steel • Starting a Fire with
Bow and Drill • Starting a Fire with a Hand Drill • An Uncertain
Future I Starting a Fire with a
Fire Plough Why This Book 2 Food 57
Preindustrial Self-Sufficiency 3
Basic Guidelines •
Plants • Insects, Grubs, and Old-Fashioned Self-Reliance and Modern
Worms Sustainable
Technology 4 Shelter 59 References 5 Location • Squirrel's Nest •
Building on Fallen Trunks
and Trees • Scout Pits and Coal Beds • II Present Trends, Possible
Futures Snow Shelters 7
Emergency Snow Shoes
61 Current Trends
7 Cordage
62 Sustainability and Limits to Growth
Recommended Plant Fibers • Fiber Test • Preparing Oil Reserves 9
Fibers • Spinning Fibers
into Cord • Splicing Water and Food IO Simple Tools 64 What about the
Weather? IO
Discoidal Stone Knives • Bone Tools Systems Modeling and Systems
Response References &
Resources 66 Earthquakes and Volcanoes i8 Prophecies 20 V Water 7°
What Can I Do? 21
Water Requirements 7° Planning for the Future 22 Stocking Up for
Emergencies 7° The
Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon • Guidelines for Coping with Disaster 71
Effective Action 2 5
Water Pollution 71 References & Resources Types of Contamination III
Supplies & Preparation
Disinfecting Your Water 74 31 Are You Prepared? Heat Sterilization •
Portable Water Filters •
My 3l Filter Recommendations • Chemical Planning for the Short Term 32
Sterilization Short-
Term Preparedness Checklist • 72-Hour Preserving Water by Using Silver
80 Survival Kits •
First Aid Kits • Earthquake Using Silver to Preserve Water Precautions
• A Short-Term Survival
Manual Treating and Finding Water the Low-Tech Way 80 Longer-Term
Planning and Storage
35 Treating Water • Finding Water • Wells Basic Supplies and Portable
Equipment • Protecting
Your Water Source 86 Calculating a Year's Food Supply • Storage Tips •
Modern Water
Treatment 87 Dry Ice Fumigation • Vacuum Packaging • Chlorine Treatment • Ozone
Treatment • Shelf Life Guide Activated Carbon Filtration • Reverse
Osmosis • Notes on
Camping Gear 40 Distillation Tents • Clothing • Sleeping Bags •
Insulating References &
Camping Gear 40 Distillation Tents • Clothing • Sleeping Bags •
Insulating References &
Resources 89 Sleeping Mats • Backpacks • Stoves • Cookware • Footgear
42 VI Food:
Growing, Foraging, Hunting Planning for the Long-Term Future 43 &
Storing 91 References &
Resources World Population and Food Supply 91 IV Emergency Measures
for Survival 46
Agricultural Productivity • Irrigation Gains and Survival Strategies
46 Losses • Soil Health and
Soil Losses • Basic Strategies • Compact Survival Kit Sustainable
Agriculture Developing a
Survivor Personality 50 "Grow Biointensive" 97 Typical Survivor
Personality Traits • Intuition: A
Double-Dug, Raised Beds • Intensive Planting • Survivor's Powerful
Ally Composting •
Companion Planting • Whole Water Gardening • Seed Propagation • Pest Control •
Requirements • Recommended Emergency Extending the Harvest in Cold
Climates Measures
• Dehydration • Conserving Water Sprouting: Your Own Minigarden on a
Fire 53 Windowsill
105 Starting a Fire with Matches • Starting a Fire with The Sprouting Process
6. Foraging for Food 107 Symptoms • Treatment for Shock Brief Guide to
Wild Edible Foods •
Poisonous Fractures and Dislocations i87 Plants to Avoid General
Guidelines for Treating
Dislocations and Preserving and Storing Food Fractures • Special
Precautions for Fractures •
Root Cellars and Other Cold Storage • "5 Reducing Dislocations •
Sprains and Strains Drying
and Smoking Food • Bites and Stings 191 Preserving Meat Animal Bites •
Snake Bites •
Spider Bites • Tick Dairy, Tofu, and Tempeh 117 Bites • Stings Making
Butter • Ghee • Yogurt
• Cheese • Making Eyes 192 Rennet for Cheese First Aid for Foreign
Object in Eye Raising
Animals 120 Moving Injured People 193 Hunting and Trapping 121
Clothing Drag for Single
Rescuer • Multi-Helper Bow and Arrow • Traps • Skinning and Cleaning
"Stretcher" Rescue •
One- and Two-Person Fishing 125 Carries Angling • Catching Fish by
Hand • Spearing Fish •
Emergency Childbirth i97 Fishing with Nets Signs of Impending Delivery
• Stages of Labor •
References & Resources 128 Emergency Childbirth Supplies • Delivery •
After Delivery VII
Shelter & Buildings i31 References Green Buildings i31 Rammed Earth
139 IX Low-Tech
Medicine & Healing 202 The Process • Soils • Moisture Test • The Forms
• The Holistic Health
Movement 203 Wall Systems • Windows and Doors The Low-Tech Medicine Cabinet 203
Adobe H5 The Essence of Healing 207 Modern Adobe Methods • Adobe Blocks • Adobe
Genetics and Cellular Growth • Body Energy Walls • Adobe Roofs
Colloidal Silver 208 Cast
Earth H9 Healing with Herbs Straw Bales H9 Types of Herbal
Preparations • Powerful Herbal
In-Fill (Non-Load-Bearing) Straw Bale Combinations for Better Health •
Caisse's Tea
Construction • Load-Bearing Straw Bale (Essiac) • Jason Winters'
Herbal Tea • Dr.
Construction • Finishing Straw Bale Walls Clark's Herbal Parasite
Cleanse • Kidney Building
with Insulated Concrete Forms 153 Cleanse • Liver Cleanse Pumice-Crete
Detoxification
Passive Solar Design Naturopathic Healing • Fasting Passive Solar
"Rules of Thumb" • James
Supplements and Food 223 Kachadorian's Patented Solar Slab Homeopathy
224 Traditional
Low-Tech Structures i58 The Origins of Homeopathy • Homeopathic Log
Cabins • Timber
Frame Construction • Tipis, "Potencies" • Effectiveness of Homeopathy
• Yurts, Wickiups,
and Wigwams Homeopathy Practices Earthquake Resistance i65 227 Healing
with Energy
Improving Earthquake Resistance The Power of Prayer 228 References &
Resources 167 230
Shamanic Healing Hypnosis for Pain Control and Healing 231 VIII
First Aid 1 j6 Fractional
Relaxation Induction • Hypnotic Initial Evaluation IJ6 Suggestion •
Awakening Technique 2
Survey the Scene • Consent and Liability Visualization and Mind-Body
Healing 35 ABCs of
First Aid 177 General Guidelines • Visualization for Mending a
Treatment Priority •
Unconscious Victim Broken Bone • Egyptian Healing Visualization Some
Notes on Death and
Dying 236 CPR 180 References & Resources 257 Survey for Injuries and
Control Bleeding 181
Pressure Points • Tourniquets Wounds 183 X Clothing & Textiles 25I
Abrasions • Incisions •
Puncture Wounds • Fiber Arts 2 5I Abdominal Wounds • Head Wounds •
Chest Preparing
Fibers • Sustainable Fibers • Spinning • Wounds Weaving • Knitting and
Crocheting Choking
Furs and Skins 258 Heimlich Maneuver Brain Tanning Overview • Dealing
with Furs •
Bandages and Dressings Bark Tanning Leather Patterns and
Custom-Tailored Clothing 267

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