http://www.mortarsprayer.com Just another WordPress site Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mortarsprayer.com/thin-shell-construction/lloyd-turner/#comment-43 admin Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:02:13 +0000 http://www.mortarsprayer.com/?p=82#comment-43 Hello Peter, You have a great idea about building your own panels and a great resource in the Styrofoam panels. I would collect as many as I could while getting ready for production. Often these are called <a href="http://www.mortarsprayer.com/emmedue/">SCIPs</a>. Typically SCIPs have a W truss at the core every 6-12" depending on the loads. Then a wire mesh face wire is added to the front and back. Shotcrete is applied with our sprayers and the results is a very strong structure. If you have smaller spans another approach cold be spraying GFRC right onto the Stryrofoam after you have assembled the structure. We are waiting for an update from a group in India that is using this method to build a children's home. I will post an update when we hear from them. Best regards, Nolan Hello Peter,
You have a great idea about building your own panels and a great resource in the Styrofoam panels. I would collect as many as I could while getting ready for production. Often these are called SCIPs. Typically SCIPs have a W truss at the core every 6-12″ depending on the loads. Then a wire mesh face wire is added to the front and back. Shotcrete is applied with our sprayers and the results is a very strong structure.
If you have smaller spans another approach cold be spraying GFRC right onto the Stryrofoam after you have assembled the structure. We are waiting for an update from a group in India that is using this method to build a children’s home. I will post an update when we hear from them.
Best regards,
Nolan

]]> http://www.mortarsprayer.com/thin-shell-construction/lloyd-turner/#comment-20 Peter Tower Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:01:34 +0000 http://www.mortarsprayer.com/?p=82#comment-20 I wrote to you a couple of months ago, but never received any reply, so here goes again. Great new website design, by the way. I live in a small village in India, I am an American, my wife is Indian. We are trying to build cottages for poor people in the area. I used to build Ecoshells and have a distributorship/license for India from Monolithic Institute, and I will build domes here again. My question is this: I have access to 4ft x 4ft x 6in dense styrofoam panels used to cushion products on a pallet when shipped by a factory in the area. I can get hundreds of these. I have also been researching Basalt Yarn and found a source in India, via China. My thought is to glue these squares together, wrap them in Basalt Yarn, then spray them with chopped Basalt fiber and concrete. Final coat would be a colored stucco with waterproofing and anti-mildew additives. Is this a pipe dream? I note that Dow and Corning make styrofoam panels that are covered in concrete for the building industry, so why not make my own? Second Question: I will be using your stucco sprayer, but the chopped basalt is very, very hard on your nozzles, so is that possible or just hand apply instead so as not to damage your sprayer? Thanks in advance for your advice, I appreciate it. I wrote to you a couple of months ago, but never received any reply, so here goes again. Great new website design, by the way.
I live in a small village in India, I am an American, my wife is Indian. We are trying to build cottages for poor people in the area. I used to build Ecoshells and have a distributorship/license for India from Monolithic Institute, and I will build domes here again.
My question is this: I have access to 4ft x 4ft x 6in dense styrofoam panels used to cushion products on a pallet when shipped by a factory in the area. I can get hundreds of these. I have also been researching Basalt Yarn and found a source in India, via China.
My thought is to glue these squares together, wrap them in Basalt Yarn, then spray them with chopped Basalt fiber and concrete. Final coat would be a colored stucco with waterproofing and anti-mildew additives.
Is this a pipe dream? I note that Dow and Corning make styrofoam panels that are covered in concrete for the building industry, so why not make my own?
Second Question: I will be using your stucco sprayer, but the chopped basalt is very, very hard on your nozzles, so is that possible or just hand apply instead so as not to damage your sprayer?
Thanks in advance for your advice, I appreciate it.

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