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The Truth about Papercrete by Kelly Hart Around 1997, when Rosana and I first came to Crestone, Colorado, there was a buzz going around town about an amazing new building material that its inventor, Mike McCain, called 'fibrous cement,' but that has become more widely known as 'papercrete.' Mike, with his tremendous enthusiasm, was generating interest in the wonders of his new discovery: that if you mix a bit of Portland cement with re-pulped paper you end up with a malleable building material that can be used for almost any building project.

It was described as cheap, easy to make, environmentally sound, insulating, insect and fire resistant, holds nails and screws without cracking, can be cut with ordinary saws, is lightweight. In other words a dream material for building! Mike shared his enthusiasm through conducting workshops on how to make this stuff and demonstrating its merits at the Crestone Energy Fair. Like many locals, I became intrigued with the potential of papercrete. At the time I was collecting footage for a video program I was working on called 'A Sampler of Alternative Homes: Approaching Sustainable Architecture,' and I decided to include papercrete in this. While videotaping other segments for this program in New Mexico, I discovered that Mike was not the first to have discovered papercrete! Eric Patterson of Silver City, New Mexico, had actually patented the process of making the exact same material, which he called 'padobe,' (as in 'paper adobe.'

) Eric is a printer by trade, and was looking for ways to utilize all the waste scraps of paper that accumulated at his print shop, when he and his daughter used a kitchen blender to make the first batch of paper and cement slurry. When this paste was set out to dry, it eventually cured into a very solid block, and the bells started going off in Eric's head. He made a bigger blender and started making adobe block sized padobes. When he had enough of these made, he first built a wall, and then an addition to his house, as well as a domed studio using nothing but the blocks joined with a mortar of the same material. Eric tried to commercialize on his invention for awhile, but eventually realized that it was best left in the hands of individual entrepreneurs to do with as they pleased, and he no longer tries to enforce his patent. At least two other 'inventors' of papercrete predate both Mike and Eric; one of them made a small papercrete shed in 1991 in Texas that he claims is still as good as new.

It seems that the idea of mixing cement and paper pulp is a perennial event. Back in the early days of papercrete euphoria, experimentation was burgeoning. Rosana and I decided to play with the material to plaster our earthbag house (another odd building technique that emerged from my research in alternative building.) Several houses were begun, with assistance from Mike McCain, including some rather freeform structures that were started with no other foundation than the papercrete being laid right on the ground. It all seemed fair game at the time, limited only by one's imagination. Other, more conventional buildings were also being made; one of these appeared in an article in Mother Earth News about paper buildings. Driver Speed Awareness Course Manchester on this page. I recently visited Abi David, who with the help of many other people, has built a charming papercrete house in the Baca. She is not quite finished with the project, but it is far enough along that she can live in it. Crazy Making The Words And Lyrics Of Justin Furstenfeld Pdf To Excel.

Colin Mcrae Rally 2005 Pc Скачать there. Abi was initially planning to make a straw bale house, and then someone offered to provide large bales of paper to build with. When this concept fizzled, she turned to papercrete blocks as an alternative, and has been quite pleased with the results. The house is very well insulated and quite sturdy. She has been experimenting with a variety of ways to plaster the walls, both inside and out. Builders have tried lots of approaches to using the stuff: little blocks, big blocks, panels, slurry pumped into slip forms, rigs to spray it on mesh, applied by hand as a plaster.