Hey Skipster,
I live on the BC Coast in a "Mediterranean" climatic zone (50 inches of rain per year) and I am building a 900 sf PC studio. I wondered about high humidity and papercrete and to that end tracked down a guy living on Vancouver Island who had been building with PC. He was/is building a modified earthship with PC used on the front walls. He is pouring monolithic walls in forms with rebar just like regular concrete. His mix is 60% glossy magazine pulp 30% sand 10% Portland and his unfinished walls have been sitting outside uncovered for 11 years with no damage that I could see.
I did some test blocks after visiting him using his formula and the results are excellent. I will definitely be building with PC in BC! I will protect the windward side of our studio with metal roofing as a rainscreen but otherwise will just finish with a borax-latex paint topcoat and see what happens.
Let me know if you need more info.
Sasha
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "skipster37" <skipster37@...> wrote:
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> just asking if anybody from Canada has built a home up here out of this stuff?And how they did it ?
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