Saturday, April 10, 2010

[papercreters] Re: Papercrete in cold climates

Papercrete bricks can be kept easily for a long time! I made a test brick and let it out, on the ground for a year. After that year, I made it dried up again and it was like new...amazing stuff!

But like others said, there seems to be a consensus leaning on slipform versus brick making.

Also, I'm not a fan of building the roof first. It can be understood for strawbale because they compress, but for papercrete wich is strong and loadbearing, it seems to me like a waste of time and structural integrity. I would prefer a monolitic structure to one that is separated by post or column.

Alexis

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