http://norishouse.com/archives/44 Our never ending quest to find the right house solution Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:26:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://norishouse.com/archives/44/comment-page-1#comment-14 ElfNori Tue, 29 May 2007 15:08:51 +0000 http://www.norishouse.com/?p=44#comment-14 Unless you read the site from the oldest to the newest, you might not immediately catch that we're using papercrete. Papercrete is a bit like adobe in that it requires a bit of mass to do its best work. Because I'm not using it as a structural element, I have a bit of leeway in the wall thickness. And because the climate here in the northwest is wonderfully mild, I don't need to keep out temperatures in excess of 100, nor do I need to protect us from temperatures below 20. If we have two weeks a year with ~20 degree temps, it's a fairly normal year for us. So, with all that said, 10" or 12" might be the perfect thickness. Unless you read the site from the oldest to the newest, you might not immediately catch that we’re using papercrete. Papercrete is a bit like adobe in that it requires a bit of mass to do its best work. Because I’m not using it as a structural element, I have a bit of leeway in the wall thickness. And because the climate here in the northwest is wonderfully mild, I don’t need to keep out temperatures in excess of 100, nor do I need to protect us from temperatures below 20. If we have two weeks a year with ~20 degree temps, it’s a fairly normal year for us. So, with all that said, 10″ or 12″ might be the perfect thickness.

]]> http://norishouse.com/archives/44/comment-page-1#comment-13 mcfish Mon, 28 May 2007 22:58:32 +0000 http://www.norishouse.com/?p=44#comment-13 I'm new here and I haven't read the whole site yet; but I'll apologize ahead of time if the answer is already here. Why make walls more than 4 to 6 " thick? Aren't you doing a dome or at least a barrel vault? Even with several inches of EPS on outside of exposed walls you would still be only 9 or 10 in thick? What am I missing? I’m new here and I haven’t read the whole site yet; but I’ll apologize ahead of time if the answer is already here. Why make walls more than 4 to 6 ” thick? Aren’t you doing a dome or at least a barrel vault? Even with several inches of EPS on outside of exposed walls you would still be only 9 or 10 in thick? What am I missing?

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