Greetings,
It was about 10 or 12 years ago now that I talked to Mike about it.
However, it was not papercrete but what he called fidobe that was not a
problem for code. Fidobe was Mike's term for paper adobe, at the time.
Instead of manure and straw, the blocks were made with paper adobe and
the adobe code followed. No problems. I have talked to inspectors in
Texas that have agreed that paper adobe, no matter what you choose to
call it, is still basically adobe.
Bright Blessings,
Kim
Spaceman wrote:
>
>
> Now, if we could track down the rumor that Mike McCain managed to get
> papercrete accepted as adobe in NM IF he used magazines which have
> clay content, mixed with local soil, making it meet the definition of
> amended soil. With confirmation of that rumor it seems that papercrete
> meets the code in NM. Good news for Judith and our other NM members,
> and possibly this could be used as a precedent in other states.
>
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