Greetings,
I have no code enforcement in my area, so I haven't kept up on it.
However, at the time, adobe did not allow any cement. The clay had to
be tested to prove it had the right stuff. You were just replacing the
fiber element in the adobe with paper.
If you read up on cob, many of the experts state flat out, do not mix
clay and cement. No cement stuccos on adobe or cob buildings, the two
don't mix. Living in a humid clilmate, I have found this to be true.
Humidity builds up behind the stucco and cause failures in the wall.
Bright Blessings,
Kim
Spaceman wrote:
>
>
> The difference between fidobe/paper adobe and papercrete is the ratio
> of soil content, isn't it? The impression I got was that there was a
> lot of flexibility in formulas that would pass, as long as they made
> it past the test standards for adobe. NM acceptance would certainly
> help with IBC acceptance, hopefully. I don't care what they call it in
> the code as long as we can keep making it ourselves and building with it .
>
> spaceman
>
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