[papercreters] bad season for papercrete

Am I the only one who was looking forward to a hot, dry summer to do
papercrete? We have our framework up, our mixer is working very well.
And even days when it is not supposed to rain, we are getting surprise
thunder storms. Lots of fun when up working on the roof.

Update on our place. We are on plan C on most stuff, the logs we had
for the reciprocal roof could not take the sideways pressure, as we
lowered the Charlie stick, two broke. They gently floated down to the
ground, our helpers were devastated, we were numb. 6 months of work,
debarking the logs, getting them all ready to go up, putting them up,
then ....... So 2 weeks later we tore it all down, left the henge, and
put 4 logs as uprights in the middle of the building and used
dimensional lumber and created a roof.

Being full time farmers does make it hard to work on the house, there
are times when we don't get much done because the farm needs work. But,
the cupola roof is almost done. The papercrete is up, the petrified
hessian will go up hopefully tomorrow, unless we get rained out again.

Our mixing system allow us to reuse almost 60% of our water, over and
over again. The one aspect of papercrete we were not happy about was
the amount of water it uses, but we have that solved now. So, when the
rain stops, we will be back out there, trying to get todays mix installed.

It is an adventure, I will say that.



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Kim Travis

Certified Permaculture Designer

Bedias, Texas



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Posted by: Kim <gartht@windstream.net>
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