"Building A Tow Mixer" - 30 minutes

One person, working alone, can build an inexpensive and beautiful home with papercrete, but to build even a small structure you have to be able to mix a sizeable amount of it easily and inexpensively. You need a mixer which can tear up large amounts of paper with ease, which has the strength to break up a 94lb bag of Portland without even opening the bag, one which requires about four hours to build and costs about $500.00 + welding - in short, you need a tow mixer. This tape covers the step-by-step assembly of the tow mixer I use almost every day. Mike McCain and I walk you through the entire assembly process from prepping the axle to building a cover. There is also a parts list with approximate costs referenced in the tape.  If you're thinking about a papercrete project, you should consider Building A Tow Mixer.

DVD - $35.00 + $4.95 (Shipping, handling & tracking.)
Total: $39.95

"Making Blocks & Roof Panels With
A Tow Mixer" – 35 minutes

The content covered in this tape comes from the first-hand experience of Mr. Barry J. Fuller who has personally poured thousands of blocks and roof panels. It is a detailed look at how a tow mixer works and how to use it. The video includes the exact components of a good mix, the type of paper to use, how  to make a watertight mixer port,  an inexpensive way to build a water storage tank, and the best way to handle water and mix blocks and roof panels. It also covers timesaving tips on how to place, dry and stack papercrete materials. 

DVD - $35.00 + $4.95 (Shipping, handling & tracking.)
Total: $39.95

“Foundations for Papercrete Walls” –
38 minutes

This presentation features foundations built for papercrete homes in the deserts of Arizona, the highlands of New Mexico, the mountains of Colorado and the valleys of old Mexico. It illustrates everything from inexpensive rubble foundations to monolithic concrete pads. It covers soil conditions, making forms, using transits, French drains, wicking, capillary breaks, frost lines, insulation, water & clay hazards and more.  It describes the Frost Protected Shallow Foundation (FPSF) and provides in-depth, detailed information on how to avoid common problems building foundations in any climate and soil condition.

DVD - $35.00 + $4.95 (Shipping, handling & tracking.)
Total: $39.95

"PapeR-block™" - A Presentation With Your Name On It. - 6:30 minutes 

You may decide to do workshops, build a home or start a business with papercrete. This means getting in front of people and demonstrating its many benefits. The question is how can you do this without an effective presentation? The answer is "PapeR-block™". It's the perfect way to introduce papercrete to groups by spelling out it's environmental and economic benefits, providing an incisive overview of the state of the art, and showing beautiful structures built with it. Shot throughout the Southwest, a great deal of research, travel time and production effort went into this short video. And, if you wish, we can personalize it for you or your company. (The fee will be determined by the type of changes.)  If you are talking to people about grants, trying to raise venture capital, working with your local Building Department, planning workshops or just want to present the papercrete concept to others, you should consider  "PapeR-block™"

DVD - $35.00 + $4.95 (Shipping, handling & tracking.)
Total: $39.95

NEW PAPERCRETE
CONSTRUCTION PLANS!!
A Set of 13 – 24x36 Inch “Blueprints”

After four years and thousands of dollars of architectural and structural R&D, we have completed a detailed, practical papercrete construction template. Building Safety inspected our template and gave us the go ahead provided that we compute lateral wind forces for each structure. Please understand that it is impossible to promise that papercrete plans, or any other type of plans, approved at one Building Safety office will be accepted at all other offices - but our template is a good way to get started. It is the actual “blueprints” of a papercrete structure showing foundation, wall and roof design and the details of how everything is connected together.  We recommend that you take this to your local Building Safety office for preliminary discussions before submitting a full set of plans. After preliminary approval of our template, we can continue to help by drawing up a complete set of plans for your specific home. This will cost you much less than starting from scratch with people who have little or no experience with papercrete and it will make it possible for you to get firm quotes on construction if you don’t have time to build your own home.

13 - 24x36 inch “Blueprints” (Duplicating, shipping, handling & tracking.)
Total: $375.00

NEW TECHNICAL REPORTS !!
The Technical Report - (PDF)
62 pages

Papercrete is said to be safe, affordable and sustainable, but we have conducted research to investigate those claims. This report covers over a year of scientific work done at a cost of $20,000.00 in sample preparation and laboratory fees.  Part I covers the preparation and mixing of samples with detailed mix weights and measures for 49 compressive strength tests. Test setups and results for selected pull and creep tests are described and illustrated.  It also includes a section on “Observations” describing the test conditions and how the mixes reacted as far as shrinkage, set time and other variables before testing. Part II is the scientific test data with eleven pages of descriptive testing material, photos of test equipment, and three appendices with over forty pages of graphs. Tables in this section include the results of compressive strength, pull and creep tests. This 62-page document contains the most current scientific test information available about papercrete. 

Shipped (PDF) via Email
Total: $250.00