My experience in making blocks or long elevated trays outdoors was to always cover with glass, and or lay a black plastic tarp under with air flow, and cover with black plastic too..on the PNW coast zones we get short summers, lots of fog, rain early some years and Oregon interior where Lost Valley alt. living community is always gets wet weather, so lots of left over shower doors, old window, any old slider doors are propped over the blocks out to cure.
When I visited there I was impressed at how efficient they were in whole weedy areas with curing blocks, always elevated off the ground. When we see AZ or TX heat they can form them on the dirt because they bake all day must faster there.
waiting too long to start in summer doesn't help, and pouring very thick slows drying. I tried lots of cardboard trays, so the water could soak thru a bit, but keep shape, and of course drained the mixes for a while first.
Mixes left on a screen over a drum gets to a sculptable consistency and you can shape sculptures for the garden or play with ideas for art.
Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
www.papercrete.com
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
www.papercrete.com
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
― Thomas Jefferson "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
― Abraham Lincoln
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?"
― Joseph Stalin__._,_.___
