Papercrete And Me

Sorry I can’t find our conversation but I just ran across something for you on another site. You were saying you thought the climate where you are is too damp for papercrete but there are people doing it successfully. Here is an exerpt:

Bob Merrill has been having great success with papercrete in wet weather. He lives in North West Washington state. Instead of pouring P/C blocks that are slow to dry,he sprays on a 1″ thick layer of P/C around his form-work. That leaves a bunch of surface area to dry faster. He keeps spraying on more papercrete layers as they dry.

The guy who wrote this is named Nolan but I can’t think of his last name. He has a website called mortarsprayer.com Hope this helps.

Oh an also, my sister lives in southern CO where there is a lot of precipitation, although nowhere near what  you get, and she says the block she took from me 5 years ago has been sitting outside all this time and looks as good as new.

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