How To Make Hybrid Adobe
You are responsible for the safety of yourself and those who use your building. It is up to you to build properly and safely. Adhere to local building codes where applicable. Hybrid Adobe (aka hybradobe, hybridobe, and hyperadobe) is a mixture of papercrete and fibered adobe (aka fidobe). To try to avoid general confusion the term "Hybrid Adobe" will be used unless the application is specific to papercrete or fidobe.
There is no exact recipe, allowing one to be less careful than in making concrete. If you add or forget a shovel full of clay or cement, use too much water or not enough paper, your Hybrid Adobe will still be usable, however the properties will change. Here are four typical mixes. Recipes are given in percentages, by volume.
These can easily be converted into shovel-fulls or pail-fulls, for instance by calling each unit 10%. Note that Roman cement can be substituted for Portland cement if you want a more natural mix. The earth you use should have a high clay content. What is referred to as "wet paper pulp" has been drained on a screen and still contains a lot of water.
Add water if necessary during the mixing to adjust the consistency depending on your application. Recipe number 1 will result in the most hard and dense material, and the following recipes result in lighter and softer finished material as you go down the list. Note: Earth can be sandy dirt, clay, clay/sand mix, etc. (you don't need to purchase washed sand. Usually digging a hole in your yard will work, but conserve your precious topsoil. Some clay is beneficial.
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