Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: F/C joins earthship

Friday, October 16, 2009

[papercreters] Re: F/C joins earthship

In regards to Ferro-cement technique that utilizes F/C... just go to the photos section. In there you will find my Ferro fibrecrete structure. It is a wire reinforced F/C buiding that has incredible weight to strength ratios. It is no more than 3/4" thick in any given place. It was built utilizing a $10 shed kit that requires you to supply 2x2 lumber. The chicken wire was recycled from a chicken pen that only managed to feed the local bobcats. The wire was doubled to try and hold the F/C as it was delivered from a Tirolessa mortarsprayer. This did not work and I ended up holding cardboard sheets behind each area being shot.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "countryatheartok" <criswells.ok@...> wrote:
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> I know this is probably a dumb question, but when you refer to F/C, is
> that Papercrete or Ferro Cement? And if it is Ferro Cement, why not use
> papercrete instead, that would lessen the amount of cement or sand,
> which ever one you decided to replace with paper pulp.
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> Bob The builder
> --- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "robertmerrill1953"
> <robertmerrill1953@> wrote:
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> I hold the beads apart with scraps of lumber. As the infill solidifies
> the whole bottles are inserted and the scraps are removed. They
> (bottles)are spaced so as to not touch each other.... matrix. The draw
> back is the same with F/C across the board and that is curing time.
> Adding discarded latex paint causes a premature kick of the F/C.
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