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