Thursday, May 15, 2008

[papercreters] Re: styrofoam??

Dear Solar,
If you compare a room built with papercrete with a room built with
conventional concrete, one of the major advantages of papercerte room
is that its walls breathe.
The conventional cement blocks do not breath.

If you put a single layer of styrofoam in the middle of two wedges of
papercrete, the walls will not be able to breathe.

Crumbling the styrofoam will allow the walls to breathe to a large extent.
Regards
Ashok

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Michael traster
<michaelpault@...> wrote:
>
> middle should work, and the outside also works great... according to
a builder who I spoke with recently.. it keeeps the ground temp from
drawing heat through the block
>
> solar4@... wrote:
> Hello All!
> I have an almost endless supply of free 4'x4'x2" sheets
> of white styrofoam...
> Would it be best to grind it up with the papercrete
> or just leave it solid and put in the middle of my
> cast walls?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stan
>

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