DIY Recycled Cardboard Insultation

How do you build on a big old warehouse on a budget? Well, first step is to get a bunch of generous friends to help pour the foundation. Then you take 6 months of inexpert yet can-do spirited labor to erect the thing. Then, when it comes time to insulate, you get creative with a bunch of used cardboard and styrofoam.

Since the warehouse has* radiant heat floors, code says we've gotta have some heavy duty insulation on the walls and ceiling. It turns out insulating a big old 2 story, 50x30 warehouse can get expensive. Then someone came up with a great idea: use cardboard!

The process is basically this:
  • Cut and sandwich 6-8 layers of cardboard in manageable regular size (ours were approximately 2'x6') chunks combined with tape (chunks are 2-3 inches thick)
  • Sprayfoam a thin coat on the inside of the metal siding to create a vapor barrier
  • Sprayfoam just a couple squirts and quickly stick cardboard in place and hold it there until sprayfoam sets
  • Seal edges with sprayfoam, again for adhesion
  • Sprayfoam over cardboard so it appears you have 4 inches of sprayfoam insulation
You may notice liberal use of sprayfoam in this scheme. It just so happens that we have a sprayfoam trailer on premise that makes it all feasible. But that doesn't mean that you too couldn't save some money (and save the environment) next time you have the need to insulate something.
Wednesday July 13 2011File under: quarry

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Start of Something

After thinking, dreaming, scheming, and telling people about it for well over a year, I've finally started building my cabin at the quarry. Last fall I got a spot tucked down in a little valley cleared and leveled and started thinking of how a little one-room cabin might fit in. This past weekend, I laid the first stones!

Basically, I'm looking at something that will end up more or less rectangular about 12x7. The walls will be mostly stone except for a few windows* here and there and some wood as well. (I see it all quite clearly in my head, but I know the details don't translate so well through brief prose.)

Anyway, I'm super excited. To have a living space that I built from the ground up will be amazing, not to mention in a place as beautiful and vibrant as the quarry. Hopefully, before the end of the year, I will be able to post pictures that actually show you what I am seeing in my head and send out an invite for all to come and check it out!!
Sunday June 26 2011File under: quarry

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Warehouse Erection


I just can't help posting this picture larger than normal in all its glory. For one, notice that small chunk of blue in the upper right corner? Well, that's the sky! Feeling the sun on my shoulder while working outdoors on a project that I am truly stoked on is nigh on perfect (esp. after a couple months of rain and being indoors).

"What is this project?" you ask. This is the long awaited warehouse at the Quarry. Slated to be a practice/occasional performance/warm dry space, this represents a huge step ahead in the mission of creating an arts-oriented, livable-in, festival/perfomance-available, all-around awesome place. (I think the mission statement is worded slightly differently in the official literature.)

While I still plan to continue to post about the interesting/fun goings on at the quarry (esp. if I happen to be there to participate), if you want even more quarry updates, you can "like" us, or become our "friend", or whatever on our page over at that all-knowing facebook*. Or you could just these: 1, 2
Tuesday March 8 2011File under: quarry

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Greenhouse Building

My greenhouse is bigger than your greenhouse. In fact, when it's done, my greenhouse will be bigger than your actual house.*

Okay, so maybe it isn't mine. It's at the quarry, land of hippies and pirates. But I'm helping put it up and I will be growing lots of yummy things in it for years to come. But before it is used for growing food, it will be used for precious precious dry space, to help facilitate getting moving the shipping container so we can get the warehouse up.

Yep, working at the quarry is satisfying. Seeing the vision ever so slowly come together, being part of shaping the amazing concept, and working with fun people is really exactly what I need right now. And you could have it too. We are now to a point of considering/encouraging/begging for new investors.

Update: I was just so excited the project was happening, I posted before everything was done. Here are a few remaining pictures to round things out. (Thanks to Comrade Jules for the pics!). Big piece of plastic, playing on the roof, dry covered space, c'est fin
Tuesday February 8 2011File under: quarry

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Quarry Warehouse Slab Pour



We [finally] poured a slab for the warehouse out at the quarry. Of course, if by "we poured" I mean a dozen or more wonderful friends came to help out while I juggled tools and held a baby. Good times. Hopefully I'll have a post about putting up the warehouse in just a couple weeks!


Wednesday December 8 2010File under: quarry

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SHBANG pics







SH'BANG!
Thanks to Peter and Stephanie for the awesome photos!




Thursday September 16 2010File under: quarry, pics

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Tide Ride

As always seems to be the case, I came away from this year's Soapbox Derby without nearly enough pictures. So instead of making a pictureless post where I try to describe all the awesomeness (fire juggling, epic crashes, rocking bands, tons of people having a great time, circus arts galore, ridiculous downhill racing, and more), I'll just wait until the pictures come back from the photographer so I can make a proper post.

In the meantime, here's a picture of my entry. The chassis is more or less the same as last year (with a tweak or two). The theme, however, is much different. What you can't see from the picture is the bubble machine that is duct taped to the back. Giant laundry detergent box. Bubbles. It's my Soap Box Racer. Get it? Some people did and some people didn't. And then some people got it but didn't think it was so funny. Oh well. To round out the spectacle*, I ended up wearing this pretty dress all day. So even if I wasn't the fastest derby racer out there, I was voted cutest by the mostly-drunken other participants.

Anyhoo, I hope to get a bunch of pictures here soon and make a proper post summing up all that action and awesomeness that was the SH'BANG!
Sunday September 12 2010File under: quarry

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The End of Summer



[Aside from the upcoming 3 consecutive weekends of fun (soapbox, lopez juggling fest, and frisbee tournament,] summer is over. I think I'll go throw myself off a cliff.

Bummer video quality (although surprisingly good for a phone), so I apologize for that. Also, please accept my apology for the blatant filler content.
Tuesday September 7 2010File under: video, quarry

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Coming Soon - SHBANG!


It's coming up on that time of year again, folks. In less than 3 weeks, Lookout Arts Quarry will be hosting the 3rd annual Off-Road Soapbox SH'BANG!!* Perhaps you've read about it here before: 2008, (pre) 2009. Now come be a part. Besides ridiculous cars hurtling down the hill, there will also be a circus show, bands, swimming*, food stands, and a wishing well! Besides all that, it is a great opportunity to check out the now world renowned Quarry. (I'd be glad to give you a personal tour.)

Any questions, any question at all, you can either post in the comments and I will respond, or contact me. I can tell you all about how to get there on the public bus (so you can save $20 on parking), what to expect, how awesome it will be, etc.
Wednesday August 25 2010File under: events, quarry

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Dreams Come True Pavilion

Yesterday, I finished the Dreams Come True Pavilion, a project began almost a year ago first with a wishing well and then a [fancy] rock wall. This last phase has been laying stone and broken concrete to create the "pavilion" part of the pavilion. The project has been an outlet for a creative need, an exercise in my stone stacking skillz, an investment in a project that I believe in, and an attempt to create something that really affects people in a positive way.

The result of hauling, stacking, and laying all these rocks is something I'm quite proud of. I would love to show it to you sometime if you ever find the chance* to make it up to the Quarry (between Anacortes and Bellingham). If you come, be sure to bring some coins for wishing (and a swimsuit for the best swimming hole in the county). Until then, have a look at a picture or two: dedication stone, the well front and center, an artist's self portrait (posted here for archival purposes).

And remember, dreams do come true. (They really do.)
Wednesday July 21 2010File under: pics, quarry

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