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ENERGY STAR now provides tools and recognition for architectural designs that incorporate energy simulation. The next "Designing Top Energy Performing...
Peter Oh
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Nov 8, 2005
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their was an artical in fine home building where the walls of a home were poured on site and then tiltedup into position. the face was rock and sand spread to...
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Nov 13, 2005
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JEFF --- byb6161 <seafox@...> wrote: what is the experience with wall thickness and height? should one story ( 8 foot walls) be a minium of 1 foot ...
Charmaine taylor
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Nov 16, 2005
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Actually a garbage disposal is not a bad idea as a finishing mill if you were going to run a continuous process. You'd still need a premixer to keep the ratios...
georgeorwell42
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Nov 17, 2005
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there's a gun called a Tirolessa I came across in the ferrocement groups that seems to handle a wide range of material. You can make your own, of course, but...
georgeorwell42
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Nov 17, 2005
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... Yes Nolan Scheid sells them, great little unit, needs at true 5-6 Hp air compressor... the higher the better. I have used it t spray crete, lime plaste, ...
Charmaine taylor
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Nov 17, 2005
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Hello all, Brief intro, I have been reading and learning about papercrete for the past few months. Discovered papercrete through Waco, TX news article and ...
gardner5555
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Nov 30, 2005
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Ok well a few of my friends have managed to find a couple nice ones off this thing (this is the spot they mentioned to me: http://www.meetthem.info/fdqdt , but...
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Nov 30, 2005
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A diaphram will pump PC. Even the thick low water type. The last time I visited with Mike McCain in Columbus, he was using a screw pump to move the mixture...
Curtis Stewart
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Nov 30, 2005
2:54 pm
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Howdy I used a large 2" discharge submersible pump similar to the one found in harbor frieght. I pumped thru a 2" flexible pvc plumbing hose and into the...
carl huffman
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Nov 30, 2005
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Carl, Wow, so you were able to pump with an impeller type pump. If that is possible, then a diaphram pump should work. A couple questions, the mixture had to...
Gardner Osborne
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Nov 30, 2005
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You don't have to go to all that expense on the pump, a trash rated 3" water pump works just fine and is only $200-300 at places like Harbor Freight. Spaceman ...
Spaceman
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Nov 30, 2005
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Hi Everybody, My name is Steve, in Maryland, and this group is a trip. I was looking for a yahoo group to find out if I can paint a house outside with oil ...
Steve Hay
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Dec 4, 2005
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Hi Steve, No, you can't paint until the weather warms above 45% - if you try, you will not be happy with the results and you will be doing a lot of scraping ...
Doug Myerscough
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Dec 5, 2005
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ENERGY STAR now provides tools that enable A&E professionals to design top energy performing buildings and provides recognition to A&E firms for such designs. ...
Peter Oh
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Dec 5, 2005
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Greetings and welcome. You seem to be beyond the how do I start phase. Now you need to move into the production stage. If you want to build a small sized...
dbigkahunna
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Dec 5, 2005
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Has anyone ever heard of anyone using cast papercrete forms (just paper, no cement/sand/clay)as fuel for a stove, such as a wood stove, or even a pellet stove?...
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Dec 10, 2005
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These are provocative ideas worthy of experimentation. mycotyrant <thehitlerbaby@...> wrote: Has anyone ever heard of anyone using cast papercrete forms...
steve chiekovski
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Dec 10, 2005
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... Has anyone ever heard of anyone using cast papercrete forms (just paper, no cement/sand/clay)as fuel for a stove, such as a wood stove, or even a pellet...
Charmaine taylor
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Dec 10, 2005
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Actually, just do a search for "paper cube fuel" and you'll find it. http://www.motherearthnews.com/printable/1982_January_February/Paper_Cube_Fuel ... From:...
TerryW
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Dec 10, 2005
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yep... easy ain't it?------------- if you know the words ... Actually, just do a search for "paper cube fuel" and you'll find it. ...
Charmaine taylor
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Dec 10, 2005
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Do a search using "paper briquette press" www.ewb-international.org/pdf/briquetting.pdf Plans, pictures, everything to make one. Two people could use this to...
Curtis Stewart
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Dec 11, 2005
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I bought a while back a small, perforated press device. aprox 8 ins X 4 or so. u put paperpulp into it, fold over the lid and squeese. It produces a...
donne Perth
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Dec 12, 2005
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I have not seen one in a while but we had a newspaper log roller when I was younger - worked great. Tightly bound paper works about as well a log in a...
Doug Myerscough
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Dec 12, 2005
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Thanks Doug and BigKahuna for the welcome and encouragement. I just pulped a bunch of paper for the hell of it, got some nylon screen to strain it and will...
Steve Hay
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Dec 13, 2005
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... This is a pretty old idea, dating back at least to the 19th or early 20th century. Should be pretty easy to make a rolling jig, but here is a modern one,...
Brian Cardell
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Dec 14, 2005
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I think IF the log roller newspaper deal worked well we'd all use them. Presto logs filled the bill it seems. Oiling the newspapers, addng wax it made it to...
Charmaine taylor
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Dec 14, 2005
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hi, I'm a student of the Polytechnic of Milan (University of Architecture), as thesis of degree I'm effecting an experimentation on the papercrete to submit it...
seravaus
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Dec 16, 2005
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Go to http://www.livinginpaper.com They have test available though they do cost. seravaus <nicola.parecchini@...> wrote: hi, I'm a student of...
Curtis Stewart
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Dec 16, 2005
11:21 pm
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hi, I've already visited that website, but 200 $ for the results of tests it's too expensive for me, I just wanted only an opinion. thanks [Non-text portions...
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