Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Who's making wet slurry this weekend?

Monday, June 8, 2009

[papercreters] Re: Who's making wet slurry this weekend?

I think everyone who has caught the papercrete bug has done a lot of reading about whast others are doing with it. I first became interested and intrigued with it from a Mother Earth News article several years ago. I did some experimenting with small batches but just in the past month got a tow mixer built so I could get started in earnest. There is so many things one can learn by following forums and trying to learn by asking questions. This can prevent a lot of mistakes and time wasted by trying to reinvent the wheel.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Evelyn Vollmer <evelynanne8@...> wrote:
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> I should not chime in as I've not yet started working on papercrete but have
> followed this list religiously for quite sometime now in preparation. I
> think that working with cardboard and perfecting the process is a really
> good thing to do esp since I see so many newspaper business going belly up
> and the ones that are left the newspapers are smaller in size and pages.
> There is certainly enough newspaper for now but it might come in time that
> newspaper will be harder to gather so freely. Lucky for us there are not so
> many ways to recycle newspapers as good as papercreters do :) such as
> plastic bottles and glass.
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> Ev
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> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:21 AM, donald1miller <donald1miller@...>wrote:
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> > You got it Terry, LaPaz county. Hot and dry most of the time and some nasty
> > "monsoon" storms in July and August. Ideal climate for PC as we can use all
> > the insulation in a building we can get. It's great weather for drying
> > blocks as well. I'm hoping to get some building done with the blocks this
> > summer. Everything I build here has to be able to withstand the wind as I
> > get a lot of that and some are up around hurricane force so it will be
> > interesting but I'm confident that done properly it will work. I am pleased
> > with the way the cardboard is workig out for pulp. I was a little concerned
> > initially as no one seemed to use it and I would have a lot of egg on my
> > face if this huge stack I've accumulated over the last 2 years wouldn't be
> > good for anything but a big bonfire.
> >
> > --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com <papercreters%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "TerryW" <blazingsaddles@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Don,
> > >
> > > What part of western AZ are you in? "Arizona Outback" sounds like La Paz
> > County, at least that's what they call it around there. I'm a little north
> > in Mohave County.
> > >
> > > Terry
> > >
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