Papercrete Battery Dome

Explanation of how this papercrete battery dome is being plastered along with brief music video to stills of the construction process. This dome is made from a double ferrocement style armature, filled with paper, and then sprayed both internally and externally with paper based mortar.

The sprayer can be purchased here:
http://www.mortarsprayer.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• papercrete
• battery
• dome
• ferrocement
• solar
• power
• mikey
• sklar
• wendy
• tremayne
• green
• acre

[AdmiralBoom76]

Too much concrete. You could make the same kind of structure from a mixture of subsoil, sand, straw and a lath frame.

[sklarm]

This material is appropriate to my area. We don't have straw or subsoil as we live on landfill in the southwest.

Also...We don't use any concrete only a small amount of cement.

[oldbearswitch]

Hi Mikey, you rule, nice vid.

BTW it might confuse us Mexicano-related fools less if you made it clear that you are not using prickly pears AKA tunas AKA the fruit of the cactus; but rather IF I figured it out right you are using Nopales, the laves of the aformentioned caactus.

So that ingredient can be called nopales rather than the paddles of prickly pear.

Is that what you are using, the paddles?

[sklarm]

I'm using the paddles, not the nopales or tunas.

[jestarsrace06]

im looking up every method into making my own eco home in the middle of australia, this one is one of my favorites? whats the insulation value of the house?

[sklarm]

Roughly R=3 per inch or R=36 for the whole thing.

[justfly2525]

Awesome job! Thanks for all the great info. I like the idea of pumping papercrete but I wonder about the thermal bridging of the double armature frame of the dome? Does all of that metal transmit hot/cold through the rebar truss system and into the interior of the dome? I'm sure it works for a battery dome but if you built a house would you eliminate the thermal bridging somehow? Keep making these awesome videos!

[BrokenRRT]

Another great video.. Can you please tell me where you got the plans for the iron frame to make your dome. It looked like rebar but hard to tell in video. Thanks!

[waellerbe]

I adore the creativity in this product. Keep up the good work.

[datzfast]

could you spray that trailer house also? moulding in some really fancy art nouveau architecture ?

[stazistazi]

love the videos and bishop allen doesnt hurt either ha

[MrNeosoul99]

You are so awesome! I want to do this here in Manitoba, Canada! :-)

[sirHOAX]

Just observing these things as they are going up in dry climates. As to Northern NY where something like this could be built, but in a wet climate can become problematic. For instance, lets say the the inside is not filled correctly or atleast pumped with low-tensile strength concrete. The inner structure, considering it is light gauge steel will start to rust.

My only conclusion if this was built in a wet climate the structure would permeate a lot of water. Needs a foam outer shell.

[zimant78]

Thanks, sounds like some really interesting material.