To: snopercod
I just filled the gas tank for $2.20 a gallon. Think I might swing by the gravel yard and get a couple sacks of cement. It wasn't bad last year. Maybe I'll use straw for reinforcement if I can figure out how to keep it from floating to the top. If cement is too high, I'll try sun-dried mud bricks. Of course, we don't get much sun.
19 posted on
05/05/2004 4:45:28 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: RightWhale
I'll use straw for reinforcement if I can figure out how to keep it from floating to the top.LOL! You gots to roll up y'alls pants and mash it down with yore bare feet. Doncha' know nothing?
51 posted on
05/05/2004 5:02:43 PM PDT by
snopercod
(I used to be disgusted. Then I became amused. Now I'm disgusted again.)
To: RightWhale
" Maybe I'll use straw for reinforcement if I can figure out how to keep it from floating to the top." Use shredded plastic strips. (?)
62 posted on
05/05/2004 5:12:10 PM PDT by
blam
To: RightWhale
To bad you could'nt market "perma-frost" as a building material. Kind of like the Sod houses of the Plains!!
73 posted on
05/05/2004 5:25:21 PM PDT by
duk
To: RightWhale
I have been investigating Papercrete - sort of a heavy duty paper mache used for building. That and straw bale homes.
79 posted on
05/05/2004 5:34:11 PM PDT by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: RightWhale
You can get fiberglass strands added to the mix for about $5.00/yd.
88 posted on
05/05/2004 5:45:16 PM PDT by
rogator
To: RightWhale
I filled up 3 gas cans and my truck for $37. Our gasoline taxes are the 2nd highest in the country . . . .
And have you priced copper pipe lately? In March I got a 10' length for $1.99. Today it's marked at $3.49.
Heard there's a concrete shortage, too!
Oy.
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