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Building insulation materials - Wikipedia. A building site for a row of riverside apartment blocks in Cambridge. The buildings are being constructed using a systems. What’s that?? That’s the response I always get when I’m describing my favorite building material. Not surprising.
Descargar Driver De Sonido Para Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bits there. Papercrete Papercrete is a fairly new ingredient in the natural building world. It is basically re-pulped paper fiber with Portland cement or clay and/or other dirt added. When cement is added, this material is not as 'green' as would be ideal, but the relatively small amount of cement is perhaps a reasonable tradeoff for what papercrete can offer. I have had a fair amount of experience with this stuff, and I would say that is has some remarkable properties. Care must be taken to utilize it properly, or you could be courting disaster.
I am acquainted with both Eric Patterson and Mike McCain, who independently 'invented' papercrete (they called it 'padobe' and 'fibrous cement') and they have both contributed considerably to the machinery to make it and the ways of using it for building. The paper to be used can come from a variety of sources and is usually free.
I've used newspaper, junk mail, magazines, books, etc., which I get from our local dump or from the waste bin at our post office. Depending on the type of mixer that is used to make pulp out of it, the paper might be soaked in water beforehand or not. My first mixer used a small electric motor mounted directly to a shaft suspended in a plastic 55 gallon drum where the mixing took place. After a year of making small batches with this, I graduated to a 'tow mixer' designed by Mike McCain, which is basically a trailer made from the rear end of a car. With this mixer (which I towed behind a Volvo station wagon) I could make three or four wheel barrows full of thick papercrete in about twenty minutes. I simply filled the tank nearly full of water, added about one wheel barrow full of dry paper, one sack of Portland cement, and perhaps some sand, depending on how I planned to use the mix. Then I drove slowly around the block, backed over a drain box with 1/8 inch mesh on the bottom, and dumped the slurry into the box via a drain hole in the bottom of the tank.
After about a half hour of draining the excess water from the slurry, the papercrete is like soft, workable clay, but not nearly as messy. This is the material that I used to plaster both the inside and outside of my earthbag house. The slurry can just as easily be pumped or dumped into forms to set up that way.
Eric Patterson makes adobe brick sized blocks of papercrete to build with, and mortars them together with a slurry of the same stuff. Mike McCain prefers to either pump the slurry into slip forms or make larger blocks for building. The addition of mineral material (sand, adobe, etc.) has the advantage of minimizing the shrinkage as it cures, making the final product more durable and fire proof, at the expense of slightly less insulating value and more weight. Cured papercrete acts like a sponge unless it is coated with something to stop the entry of water. In my earthbag/papercrete house I allowed the papercrete to breath fully, so that it absorbed an enormous amount of water when it rained. This was not a problem because there was nothing in the wall that would be damaged by water, even if it got past the papercrete layer, which it rarely or never did.
Quo Vadis 1951 Download Dublado Panico. Other properties of papercrete are: 1) It is dimensionally very stable both through the process of taking in moisture and drying out and in a wide range of temperatures. 2) It will hold fasteners to some extent, especially screws, without cracking.
3) It is highly insulating (about R-2 1/2 per inch). 4) It does not support flames, but will smolder for days if it does catch fire.
The more cement and mineral material that is added to the mix, the more fire proof it becomes. 5) It will support molds if it remains warm and moist for too long. 6) It will wick moisture from the ground into the wall if buried in dirt. 7) It becomes soft and will deteriorate if kept damp (especially underground) for too long. 8) It resists rodent and insect infestation. 9) It will erode over time when exposed to the elements, and for this reason the earthabg/papercrete house was eventually replastered with stucco. Paper adobe is similar to papercrete, but instead of cement used to bind the paper fiber into a solid, clay is used as the binder.