[Cob] bamboo ceiling in cob house/paper ceiling tiles

[Charmaine Taylor-dirtcheapbuilder]

Amanda, you always offer great insight!

May I suggest  the bamboo ceiling have  a precasting of rice hull blocks with
clay- "light rice clay"?  errrr  rice cakes??   hahaha.

( my favorite made up word for these alt. mixes is   "Wafflecrete"  I was
mixing chopped paper, and clay+ lime and pressing it into cardboard box lids,
and  they looked kinda like waffles when dry.)

but I digress..in any case  one can be ingenious and use clay slip and rice
hulls, or add the Cocoon newspaper or shredded paper, or sawdust, etc.  (
crushed  recycled gyp board, chopped grasses, hemp, ) as an additive, and
premake thin flat blocks to lay up in a ceiling.


to further digress I am  seriously  looking at experimenting with making
pressed ceiling tiles ( paper based)...at the local Despot store the CHEAPEST
1' square specialty (fire resistant paperboard)  ceiling tiles sell for $1.00
each...on a basic 12x12+ room that is $144- ( sale price)  to $200 + AND the
cost  & labor for hanging system to attach to the ceiling.

These ceiling tiles CAN be  glued to the current wall board ceiling on existing
houses...so I am testing some ideas to premake fireproof paper+lime ones...with
patterns (if doable), for virtually free, just  the labor alone.
If you have seen pressed tin ceiling tiles you get the idea... just need more
time in each day to play with these ideas!

Ms. Charmaine  Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
http://dirtcheapbuilder.blogspot.com/  < lime resources online






Amanda Peck wrote:

> I used Cocoon (recycled cotton fiber treated for fireproofness)
>
> Or, could you use a nice thick layer of rice hulls?