[Cob] Lint insulation???

[Amanda Peck]

Fire resistance is something to test--lightly spray each layer with a 
saturated borax solution? Then  see if it burns.  If it's flammable that 
way, adding it as fiber to a clay or lime plaster sounds like the best idea.

Also dryer lint is sort of like felt.  I've heard of people using it to 
cover a steel armture to make a sculpture--saving, I'd guess, the nicely 
colored stuff for the surface.
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Charmaine replied to David (snipped):

I have  also used  LINT as a fiber additive to a   clay plaster.  I had 
added  crushed gyp sheetrock leftovers,  adding water and a bit of clay and  
shredded paper, and it made a nice creamy mix for interor plastering


On Mar 19, 2006, at 12:10 PM, David Boyer wrote:

>We live in 200 unit apartment complex with 8 dryers and both work in 
>hospitals where scads of laundry and linen is washed and dried. All the 
>material that collects on the dryer lint screens is engarbageized....
>     Has anyone ever heard of using lint for insulation? What might be some 
>ways to apply it?