Welcome to all the newcomers!!- I am so glad to see new people still
discovering papercrete after 12-13 years
to give a tiny bit of history I remember in 1997-1998 when a
customer of my book store told me there was this newsletter about
this magic mix of paper and cement-- and she faxed it to me ( before
email attachments, people sent faxes alot) I got this horribly grainy
very dark fax of a few pages of the newsletter and immediately called
Gordon Solberg, the editor.
his newsletters were put into a book form a year later so it has no
beginning or end, but had the most amazing articles and info about
PC. He told me that he figures of the thousands of newsletters
read, 95% just copied and passed on- it was a wildfire- he
grumbled on the loss of income, but he was the 'pioneer' bringing the
news- he still sells his book, and a DVD and it still has good basic
and interesting info.
and today there is so much free on Youtube to view-- clips and
recipes, and how tos, etc. that anyone can learn.
I called my own early experiments Kitchencrete- I used a blender, then
another, when that broke, I used 2-3 little Oskar food processors (
better- but still burned out the engines) I make cookie sheets of mud
pies- and 'dirt burgers' as friends called them- drying in the sun,
drying in the oven, I took an empty tuna can added lime and clay,
inside an Oven Roast bag to simulate a 90 day cure- and made "Roman
Cement", and added other fibers- and paper.
MY favorite mix is still lime- clay- sawdust- 2-4-12 parts by volume,
as it is PRE chopped- no big mixer needed.. even an old wringer
washer spindle can chug chug and mix my formula to make plaster,
blocks, poured forms, etc, without the set up of cement. true mine
take longer to cure- are 'organic' and once plastered will last as
long as any building material that is protected from the elements.
I will say again PAPERCRETE is AN IDEA- many fibers, and dry organics
can substitute for paper if you cant get paper easily- seaweed to
sawdust- straw to chopped shrubbery ( JOh Stahl's AgStone- at
www.tree.org) & grass clippings.. all have been used, and tested.
most work in many applications.
so get busy. as Laura Solberg says- "Don't worry Make Slurry!"
--
Ms. Charmaine Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
Toll Free Order: 1-888-441-1632
www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
www. papercrete.com
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