Hi Joel;
If you meander over to the photos section you will notice that P/C actually has more ways of being produced than from a Towmixer. I assume you are talking about building a home? The work required to build a home from ground up is extensive and requires a tremendous investment in tools. The tools often outlive the actual construction project. Allowing them to be profitably sold to others.
Buying preprocessed paper, in the convenient form you mention, still requires a large mixer. You would need to get real about your aversion to "tooling-up" if you ever intended to suceed in a construction project. By the way... you need straw for construction purposes... not hay.
Take Care........... Bob
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "joelincalif" <joelincalif@...> wrote:
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> Hello group, lots of good advice here!
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> For those with an excess amount of free paper products to work with and a tow mixer I'd like to think it would be the start of an interesting business opportunity. Haybale construction is common because the hay is available most anywhere. Papercrete isn't common because the waste paper must be converted into a useful form with the tow mixer.
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> I don't have a tow mixer and really don't want one. What I do want is pre-mulched paper and would buy dried pre-mulched paper ready for me to mix. Maybe lots of other people would too.
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> Perhaps those with lots of paper and a tow mixer could start creating, for sale, plain paper blocks out of their excess paper. I envision this dried paper block could be added to water - soaked a little to soften - and quickly converted into usable papercrete.
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> Make these blocks in a convenient size ( so many blocks per 92# bag of cement) and I'd think you'd develop a local market. Pick one of the good recipes from Tina, Mike and John in Colorado site ( www.papercreters.org) and scale your block size to it.
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> ... for paperstucco use X blocks of paper per 92# cement, ... for papercrete blocks use X blocks of paper per 92# cement, ...
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> If you make it I'll buy some and so will others,
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> Joel
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