Hi Alexis,
Thanks for getting back to me. I will have to try making some bricks this summer. I was thinking that due to short summers up here, it might be worth a try to make half of the bricks this summer, store them until next year, and then make the rest next summer. THey would probably be just about done curing by the time I finished stacking up the first bricks I made, haha.
I'm definitely interested in slip forms as well. I'm still on the fence regarding using the PC as a fill in for posts or columns or just making a monolithic wall. Will a monolithic PC wall hold up standard roof trusses and roofing material?
Thanks,
Shana
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "alexis.marcil" <alexis.marcil@...> wrote:
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> 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!
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> But like others said, there seems to be a consensus leaning on slipform versus brick making.
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> 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.
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> Alexis
>
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