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What Can I Make With Papercrete?
This versatile material has so many practical uses that it will be impossible to list them all here. Imagination serves better to compile a list. Due to its semiliquid state as a mix, like concrete, it can be molded into countless shapes and allowed to cure hard. Just as concrete can be molded into vases and planter boxes, so also can Papercrete be molded. One quality of Papercrete must be acknowledged before molding it, and that is that it loses water just after pouring into a form or mold, and this loss of water causes it to settle to a lower level. If more mix is added after about 20 minutes, then this settling and shrinking can be compensated.

The obvious candidate for Papercrete is blocks for building, but that is only a tiny fraction of the possible building shapes possible. It can be poured into large, shallow forms to make panels, and then these panels can be used to cover walls, make partitions, make boxes, etc. Some people are using Papercrete to make furniture, fences, planters... Play with it for a few days and you will easily think of new uses for it.

If Papercrete is made with extra cement, it serves well as both mortar, for building with Papercrete blocks, and plaster, for covering the finished wall. By using less cement than for, say blocks, one can make panels for insulation and use instead of commercial foam or spun fiberglas.