Recycling Styrofoam

So, aside from building, there are lots of pieces to put together in preparation of producing papercrete.
We make our own papercrete blocks here at Eve's Garden.
The blocks are made of
- Recycled Paper
- Recycled Styrofoam
- Clay
- Sand
- Portland Cement
- Wata
- Perlite




So, to get the Styrofoam together, yikes a big job for Alaine!
Clyde got a good deal from some folks who supply recycled Styrofoam, however, the clear plastic bags in which the Styrofoam is stored don't stand up to the dessert sun and they have biodegraded! So, we've had a Styrofoam room. I've been spending hours and hours trying to bag up styrofoam. Can you imagine? Can you imagine trying to shove styrofoam beads into bags. bleck.









Got 'er done! About 36 hours of bagging styrofoam beads! And they're all bagged up!

Working!

April 12th, 2010
About 6 person hours

Here's Noble building the frame for the French doors we've decided to put in the south wall!
So we'll have French doors on the north wall AND the south wall! So exciting! Lots of light.
This means I'll have to knock out a part of the wall we already built. The beauty of papercrete, change your mind... just try try again.









Everybody loves photos of kitties. Here's one of the 8 or 9 cats we have around Eve's Garden sitting in a bucket of nails. Tough Cat!

Hi Friends, We're back in West Texas, trying to get the blog up and going again. We arrived in early March here to Eve's Garden in Marathon, TX. We'll be working on building our papercrete "flat" again in the next few days. I'm make an update of how many person hours we've put into construction (it's been 41 days of work I can tell ya) and how many papercrete blocks we've lugged up to the second floor.
The picture was taken by our buddy Bob from College Station. Thanks Bob and Estelle. Hasta Pronto.