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I'll be using this blog to share information about my experiments with papercrete and related materials. I know little of building fundamentals, though I'm learning here and there. I mention this to let anyone who stumbles upon this blog that I'm pretty much winging it when it comes to construction. I'll document failed experiments as well as successes. I think all of it offers information to the novice who sees the potential in papercrete and other alternatives to expensive traditional building and sculpting materials. For instance, I made skirting for my mobile home using a sort of "third world" tecnology--latex cement over fly screen. I read online that someone was making shelters for refugees in various war torn and famine ravaged African countries by stretching nylon window screen over bamboo frames and painting it with a mix of discarded latex paint, sand, and Portland cement. I attached nylon window screen to PVC "studs," painted it with thei