Hempcrete
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PintoPoint
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I can see the whole fire department showing up to a house fire.
Kenny
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They say (About 1:10) the lime mixture that their using in France is only 1/6th the weight of concrete and stronger. Heavy?
jerry
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True but a Sip solution gives you a lot of other advantages
dirtsurfer
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If you research a little there are a lot of alternative concrete products. The Hempcrete is a good idea and is akin to adding straw to mud to make adobe. I work with a lot of rammed earth houses which is a technique utilized for a thousand years and being refined all of the time.
What I would like to find is a method for utilizing salty sand so we could build from materials found right on our beach lots.
What I would like to find is a method for utilizing salty sand so we could build from materials found right on our beach lots.
Landshark
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Didn't know they used anything but beach sand. That's what they built our place with. They shaped a bowl in a sand dune, mixed in cement & water & built a concrete mixing bowl. That was used to hand mix all the concrete for the construction of the home. They made a walkway through the sand with scrap pieces of wood to roll the wheelbarrow loads of concrete. Felt like we had gone back 100 years in time.
jerry
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http://www.monolithic.org/stories/salt-water-concrete-a-reality
http://www.monolithic.org/stories/basalt-fiber-rebar. Wow that is the answer...man am I behind the curve!
jerry
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Landmark if your house was in The Three Little Pigs Story the wolf just would have to wait twenty years and not bother huffing and puffing!
dirtsurfer
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J: I have been wanting to build a large monolithic dome for a long time, just haven't found the right client for the application. You may one day in Santo Tomas see a monolithic dome built with basalt-fiber rebar. I have toured huge monolithic domes being utilized as churches or warehouses. The monolithic dome structures themselves are about as strong as a building can get but most folks can't get by their looks. Interesting side note: one of the monolithic dome companies in the U.S. had a large contract to build hangar's for Saddam's air force jets but had to abandon the work when war broke out.
Landshark
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Been 15 years and no problems so far. The annual maintenance is high but that's the price you pay for beachfront. Haven't had any cracking I would consider abnormal. Hope it makes it another 20 years. Then the mean wolf can have it. Hope it falls on him.
