From: JUDITH WILLIAMS <williams_judith@hotmail.com>
To: papercreters papercreters <papercreters@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, February 5, 2011 8:04:58 PM
Subject: RE: [papercreters] Papercrete & rocks
Where do you live Wayne? I sort of miss the ocean sometimes.
I think your cut up ropes will work fine in the mix. Hopefully some in this group will share their experience with this. It may help with strength but I don't know. I guess you could do an informal test. Take a block of regular papercrete and one with the rope fibers and go to town on them. Sounds like fun.
We shot at the walls of my first building with several different guns. Some bullets went through and some didn't. I forgot all the details except that it was fun.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin
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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: huon@intas.net.au
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:55:35 +1100
Subject: RE: [papercreters] Papercrete & rocks
heat from the sun, as we get more overcast weather here, but more just
having a large thermal mass to even out the day, night and different day
temperatures.
As far as things to add, we cannot get pumice here, but I do have heaps of
old boat ropes that are regularly tossed out by the local fish farmers.
These are poly ropes up to 2.5" diameter. I have started cutting these
into 4" lengths and tossing the separated fibers into the mix. Would I be
right in assume that this will give a better safety factor for roof
construction?
Wayne
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> If you laid down a layer of rocks and poured papercrete over them the
> rocks would not soak up any heat from the sun because they would be
> insulated from it. If you poured a layer of papercrete and put rocks on
> top of it and the sun hit the rocks they would warm up and stay warm
> because the papercrete was insulating them. is this what you were asking?
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> I appreciate the simplicity of papercrete and am happy with it as it is,
> paper and cement. I also add pumice fines for several reasons. The mineral
> content is increased thereby aiding fire retardance and making it
> undesirable as a food source (except for chickens!). It also seems to
> increase the volume. If I had something around that I wanted to get rid of
> I would probably experiment by adding it to the mix. I may do that with
> all these polypropylene bags I have but I don't see the point in
> scrounging up things that I can throw into the mixer. That said I will add
> that if anyone finds something that works well they should share it with
> the group. This is why we are here, to learn from each other.
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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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> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> From: huon@intas.net.au
> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:24:10 +1100
> Subject: [papercreters] Papercrete & rocks
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