| Shana, Good for you. You will find that there are some in the group that have tried both brick making and its associated workload and slip form walls. Montana has similar conditions to yours in Alaska and I had batches of bricks that took weeks to cure enough (not completely) to put in a wall. Your long daylight in the summer would be good but even then your night time temps will fall. People in the southwest that use bricks have very arid humidity AND high temps to drive moisture out. 100 degree days and humidity in the morning of 65 and afternoons of 35 get rid of moisture fast. You, on the other hand, have (if you live in the interior of Alaska) highs for a few weeks in the 90's and humidity in the 50 to 70 percent. If you live anywhere on the coast of Alaska then the humidity shoots up and the temps come down because they are both tempered by the ocean. You could, as you suggest, build bricks and store them for later use. There is no problem with that but you would need to protect them from the weather until you were ready to use them. Alternatively, you could build some slip forms and pour your slurry in the wall as you pulp it up and who cares if it takes a month or two to dry completely? One thing many are doing now is to build the roof first so that the walls are protected from inclement weather (both pounding rain and merciless sun). Buildings are built with large overhangs to keep weather off the walls, which for you in Alaska fit right into the "keep the snow off the building" syndrome. Are you planning to build a tow mixer? I would suggest you look at the group's pictures. You can access them here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/papercreters/photos/album/0/list There is a wealth of information in the pictures that bring lots more questions for someone new, so don't hesitate to ask them. By the way, I am in Nondalton. Ron --- On Fri, 4/9/10, Shana <ultrashanamania@yahoo.com> wrote:
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