Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Lego-type blocks

Monday, May 3, 2010

[papercreters] Re: Lego-type blocks

Nice design, there is a product on the market called by several names,
one name is Sure-Wall, another name is EZ-Wall and I believe another is
Block Bond. All three have fiberglass in the mix. I know there is a
cinder block on the market that has a interlocking upside down "V" and
all you have to do is stack them and put 1/4" skim coat on both sides
and you've got a house in no time and they are unbelieveably strong.

BTB

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "mojavejeff" <mojavejeff@...>
wrote:
>
> I finally got around to getting a couple photos of two small projects
I have completed. (see the MojaveJeff photo album) The first photo is of
3 stacked lego-type blocks. My thinking was to see if I could make a
good form to create some tight fitting, interlocking blocks that may not
need to be mortered. It worked out pretty well. However, I still go back
and forth in my mind as to the benefits of slip-forming walls versus
blocks and morter. Regarding compressing the blocks, I went the
ultracheap and slow way and used a sledgehammer after each 5 gallon
bucket's worth of papercrete to compress the mix.
>
> The second photo is a 4 foot x 4 foot x 6 inch sound barrier wall I
erected between my air conditioner and my bedroom window to reduce the
noice so I could get some sleep. I used chicken wire over the raw wall,
then papercreted it with the same mixture and then painted.
>
> I used the same papercrete mix for both projects. 1 to 1 ratio by
weight - paper to cement. Again, I'm just experimenting at this point
with a 5-gallon bucket and a half-inch hand-drill.
>