True that cement and clay are not a good marriage. I guess that makes this moot for papercrete unless we can somehow make a pc block that passes the tests without all that clay, just the tiny amount in the magazine paper, and can still convince someone that it is adobe. Oh well, it looked promising on the surface.
spaceman
Garth & Kim Travis wrote:
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------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: papercreters-digest@yahoogroups.com papercreters-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: papercreters-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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