Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Updates please?

Saturday, February 12, 2011

[papercreters] Re: Updates please?

Hi Judith,Clair from Alberta Canada,we are just waiting for the snow
to melt (another month hopefully lol)and will start rebuilding the press and making a convayor to move the pre drained mix to the press.Im working for a large fab shop now running their paint shop so have use of the shear and break plus a big scrap bin.We have a order for the spring of 2012 so this is the year to get things up and running.We also found a pice of land with 10 acres and a big dugout of water,so its just what we needed.Will send some pics once we get going again.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@...> wrote:
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> I'm pet sitting and feeling a bit cabin feverish so am going through all old group emails that I have saved for various reasons. These go back about 2 or 3 years - whenever this group got started.
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> Anyway, a lot of people wrote about interesting and exciting projects they were planning and starting. I would love to see some updates. How about it?
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> I haven't been doing any mixing in the cold weather but have managed to get some windows installed and am trying to set up a small crew to help with installing the doors. Wnen I get home next week I am going to get started on my interior plaster. The walls came out pretty irregular (even with the slip forming. I am learning the importance of getting those forms just right) so they need to be smoothed out with a papercrete plaster. If I remember correctly I used a mix of 1/2 paper and water slurry and 1/2 clay soil. What I've done looks pretty good so far. One thing I'm doing that seems to help is to make batches of papercrete without the cement - just paper and water. I pour it into the block mold and let it dry. Then when I want to make a batch of plaster I take some of the dry paper stuff, break it into a 5 gallon bucket, add water and clay soil and mix it with thed rill and paddle mixer. This way I have it in small amounts and don't feel the pressure of having to use up a huge amount of material. This is just for the scratch and brown. The finish plaster will be something smooth and lovely.
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> So anyway to those who have projects going or have some finished ones I would love to see what you have accomplished. Pretty soon we'll be back in the good weather and there will be less time for writing.
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> They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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> ~ in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
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> Follow progress on the new project at http://www.papercretebyjudith.com/blog
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> More papercrete info at http://squidoo.com/papercretebyjudith
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