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DVDS,
CONSTRUCTION PLANS & RESEARCH AVAILABLE !!
(All proceeds go to further research on papercrete.)
You can build your own home with paper - here's how!
DVDS -
All 7
DVD titles below - the most current, professionally-produced detailed information available
shot at the construction sites of the
builder/producer - Barry J. Fuller
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All 7 DVDs described below - (Includes shipping, handling & tracking.) |
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Discount price: $200.00 |
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"Building A Tow Mixer" - 30 minutes
One person, working alone, can build an inexpensive and beautiful home with papercrete, but to build even a small structure you have to be able to mix a sizeable amount of it easily and inexpensively. You need a mixer which can tear up large amounts of paper with ease, which has the strength to break up a 94lb bag of Portland without even opening the bag, one which requires about four hours to build and costs about $500.00 + welding - in short, you need a tow mixer. This tape covers the step-by-step assembly of the tow mixer I use almost every day. Mike McCain and I walk you through the entire assembly process from prepping the axle to building a cover. There is also a parts list with approximate costs referenced in the tape. If you're thinking about a papercrete project, you should consider Building A Tow Mixer.
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| Total: $39.95 |
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"Making Blocks & Roof Panels With
A Tow Mixer" – 35 minutes
The content covered in this tape comes from the first-hand experience of Mr. Barry J. Fuller who has personally poured thousands of blocks and roof panels. It is a detailed look at how a tow mixer works and how to use it. The video includes the exact components of a good mix, the type of paper to use, how to make a watertight mixer port, an inexpensive way to build a water storage tank, and the best way to handle water and mix blocks and roof panels. It also covers timesaving tips on how to place, dry and stack papercrete materials.
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“Foundations for
Papercrete Walls” –
38 minutes
This
presentation features foundations built for papercrete homes in the deserts of
Arizona, the highlands of New Mexico, the mountains of Colorado and the valleys
of old Mexico. It illustrates everything from inexpensive rubble foundations to
monolithic concrete pads. It covers soil conditions, making forms, using
transits, French drains, wicking, capillary breaks, frost lines, insulation,
water & clay hazards and more. It describes the Frost Protected Shallow
Foundation (FPSF) and provides in-depth, detailed information on how to avoid
common problems building foundations in any climate and soil condition.
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| Total: $39.95 |
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“Building
Papercrete Block Walls” –
47 minutes
Our
first structures were
built by "successive approximation" - i.e. trying various approaches and
then improving them or correcting for mistakes.
This presentation saves you the great amount of time you would otherwise have to
spend experimenting and learning what we already know. It covers what tools work
best with papercrete; how to drill, cut, trim and lay blocks; what materials
bond best with papercrete; how to make walls the shape you want; how to insert
steel reinforcement; how to
split block and make opening using a chainsaw;
how to attach frames and ledgers; build lintels and other crossovers; how to build a
"truth window"; how to level and pour
a "leveling course" and
more. Building
papercrete block walls is fun and comparatively easy - when you know how to do
it! This presentation shows you what you need to know to build your own home or
other structure.
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| Total: $39.95 |
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“Building Papercrete Roofs” – 33 minutes
Building a papercrete roof can be done in a number of
ways. We considered procedures recommended by several different people and then
added twists of our own. Our approach was eclectic because we had to build a
nearly flat paper roof with parapets and scuppers. To our knowledge, this had
never been done before. In this presentation, we show how to anchor the top
plate, slash cut and install exposed beams, fill in between beams and over
openings, contour the roof slope, install wire support, lay roof panels, build
up courses of roof block, reference the slope for the roof pour, pour a sloped
roof, install scuppers & parapets, finish the roof, and seal it. Our roof has
been in place for 14 months through two very active monsoon seasons. An adjacent
building lost its roof in a huge storm, but ours shows no sign of leakage or
degradation of any kind. It was cheap to build and extremely energy efficient.
Not everything worked perfectly on the first try, but ultimately we figured out
how to build a very functional and attractive roof.
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| Total: $39.95 |
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“Doors, Windows, Electrical and Finish” – 45 minutes
There is a lot to learn when attempting to seamlessly
and attractively install doors and windows in papercrete structures. It’s
necessary to fill areas around door and window jams, and get everything level
and square so that doors and windows fit well and open & close easily. When you
work with papercrete, you don’t always get the expected results. In our “lessons
learned” segment, we show how to avoid - or correct for - a number of problems.
Installing the electrical system in papercrete is comparatively easy - if you
know how to make wiring runs and install boxes. We show how to do it efficiently
and safely. In our structure, we installed several large glass block windows.
No one had done this before so we had to figure out how to it ourselves. We show
how the blocks go in and how strong they are when properly installed. Then we
talk about stucco. There is a lot to learn - and to avoid - when using
papercrete and non-papercrete finishes. Not too many people have spent much time
figuring out how to do this. We show how to do it and give specific mixes to
use for finishes, which work properly without cracking. We show a lot of
experimentation, which helped us come up with the type of wire to use, the
fasteners which work best, the mix which looks and works best, and the very best
way to seal it.
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"PapeR-block™" - 6:30 minutes
You may decide to do workshops, build a home or start a business with papercrete. This means getting in front of people and demonstrating its many benefits. The question is how can you do this without an effective presentation? The answer is "PapeR-block™".
It's the perfect way to introduce papercrete to groups by spelling out it's
environmental and economic benefits, providing an incisive overview of the state
of the art, and showing beautiful structures built with it. Shot throughout the
Southwest, a great deal of research, travel time and production effort went into
this short video. If you are talking to people about grants, trying to raise venture capital, working with your local Building Department, planning workshops or just want to present the papercrete concept to others, you should consider "PapeR-block™"
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NEW PAPERCRETE
CONSTRUCTION PLANS!!
A
Set of 13 – 24x36 Inch
“Blueprints”
After four years and
thousands of dollars of architectural and structural R&D, we have completed a
detailed, practical papercrete construction template. Building Safety inspected
our template and gave us the go ahead provided that we compute lateral wind
forces for each structure. Please understand that it is impossible to promise
that papercrete plans, or any other type of plans, approved at one Building
Safety office will be accepted at all other offices - but our template is a good
way to get started. It is the actual “blueprints” of a papercrete structure
showing foundation, wall and roof design and the details of how everything is
connected together. We recommend that you take this to your local Building
Safety office for preliminary discussions before submitting a full set of plans.
After preliminary approval of our template, we can continue to help by drawing
up a complete set of plans for your specific home. This will cost you much less
than starting from scratch with people who have little or no experience with
papercrete and it will make it possible for you to get firm quotes on
construction if you don’t have time to build your own home.
| 13 - 24x36
inch “Blueprints” (Duplicating, shipping, handling & tracking.) |
| Total:
$375.00 |
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NEW TECHNICAL REPORTS !!
The Technical Report - (PDF)
62 pages
Papercrete is said to be safe, affordable and sustainable, but
we have conducted research to investigate those claims. This report covers over a year of
scientific work done at a cost of $20,000.00 in sample preparation and laboratory fees.
Part I covers the preparation and mixing of samples with detailed mix
weights and measures for 49 compressive strength tests. Test setups and results
for selected pull and creep tests are described and illustrated. It also
includes a section on “Observations” describing the test conditions and how the
mixes reacted as far as shrinkage, set time and other variables before testing.
Part II is the scientific test data with eleven pages of descriptive testing
material, photos of test equipment, and three appendices with over forty pages
of graphs. Tables in this section include the results of compressive strength,
pull and creep tests. This 62-page document contains the most current scientific test information available about papercrete.
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The Technical Report Lite
- (PDF)
16 pages
It is widely
believed that building with papercrete is safe, affordable and sustainable, but
we have conducted research to look into those claims. This is the abbreviated
version of the 62 Page Technical Report above. The mix sampling, preparation and observations in the long version are omitted, but the mix proportions and basic scientific test data are included. Photos and tables in this report include the results of compressive strength, pull, and creep. It is the most current abbreviated scientific test information available about papercrete.
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The Thermal Test Report - (PDF)
17 pages
This document is a comprehensive study of papercrete's thermal properties (R-value). Five mixes were tested. Photos and tables in this report include test setup, sensor placement, test procedures and the test data. It is a comprehensive look at the thermal properties of papercrete with some very interesting and encouraging results.
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