Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: rafters and beams and tying foundation into roof

Friday, November 5, 2010

[papercreters] Re: rafters and beams and tying foundation into roof

Im thinking more to hold things together. In fact I am considering rammed earth for most of the load bearing..... but Im just not sure. I do have scrap metal around here that could be used and I once saw something online where a guy built a house with wire mesh and metal fence posts. Then he sprayed some mixture (I cant find the link now) on burlap and draped the burlap over the metal which made him a monolithic form for a house.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, BEN <bennyboyhou@...> wrote:
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> Sounds interesting. Would it be to support more weight or just to keep things together so to speak? I would think that it would work for the latter but would have concerns if it was to be used to bear extra weight of any significance. I would enjoy hearing about this as it has crossed my mind as well on several projects that are coming up soon.
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> --- On Wed, 11/3/10, Teresa P <ablueprincess@...> wrote:
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> From: Teresa P <ablueprincess@...>
> Subject: [papercreters] rafters and beams and tying foundation into roof
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 2:45 PM
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> Would it be feasible to run barbed wire and/or wire mesh and/or scrap metal all tied together in various fashions with metal up and down a wall and across a roof to the other side of the building and up and down those walls. Frame it out with light weight cheap metal conduit pipe with the wires/mesh/etc running all over the place tied to the conduit pipe. Then pour a monolithic pc with slip form and/or blocks with wires embedded and sticking out of the blocks to tie to other blocks? I hope I explained this right.... the idea is to frame the building cheaply with scraps of metal tied (not necessarily welded) together and have them embedded into the pc
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