Photos of the interior as it is transformed from a leaky old trailer to a spacious and cozy papercrete home. Originally, we lived in an RV for 18 months. Then, we stayed in the mobile home as we continued to build the 6′ wide by 55′ long papercrete additions. Eventually we opened up the sides of the trailer to expose the additions.
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[...] Interior – Then & Now [...]
Hi Judith. Thanks so much for your comments! As I told Bonnie (below), we did apply for and get a permit to add a metal roof and additions to the mobile home. However, it strikes me as very strange that there are structural concerns for tire and papercrete at all — especially considering our mobile home is so shoddily constructed! The trailer walls are made of 2 X 3′s and are covered with tin on one side and cheap paneling on the other. In between there is a scanty layer of fiberglass insulation. The floors are literally made of particle board which, when wet, dissolves! It is so hypocritical that authorities would let a family live in such a flimsy structure while at the same time denying permits for tire and papercrete construction.
Thanks for the website compliment. We’ve been working with websites since 1999 and our ability to work withthem has evolved over that time. Our first website cost $6,000 and we had someone make it for us. Eventually, we left that web designer for another and another because we wanted to update information and they were too slow. Finally, while on a cross-country bicycle ride, our maintenence person quit and we were forced to learn (steep curve) how to use FrontPage — a wisiwyg web site design program. We got pretty good at it but the program is expensive and limited. So, we discovered Joomla, a free content management system (cms), and now I am learning WordPress — which is what this website uses. Our very first website (www.rainbowlaw.com) uses a Joomla cms. Both are (fairly) easy to learn and there are lots of tutorials on the web. And, they are free!
I am curious — what is your papercrete recipe? How did you mix the slurry? Do you have any photos? Stay in touch!