[Cob] Natural Building Puerto Rico

[Jayla Jayla]

Does anyone on this list have any info on natural bulding in Puerto Rico?
Sincerely,
Linda

>From: Charmaine Taylor-dirtcheapbuilder <tms at northcoast.com>
>Reply-To: books at dirtcheapbuilder.com
>To: coblist at deatech.com
>Subject: Re: [Cob] bamboo ceiling in cob house/paper ceiling tiles
>Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 23:32:12 -0700
>
>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
>
>
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>
>
>
>Amanda Peck wrote:
>
> > I used Cocoon (recycled cotton fiber treated for fireproofness)
> >
> > Or, could you use a nice thick layer of rice hulls?
>
>
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