hey ladies and gents, its getting cold af up here in Canadaland! My minds always going towards cheap // good // building products. Although Im new to upcycling plastics.
Whats your opinion on:
Somehow injecting air bubbles / pockets into the plastic to use less plastic, make it stronger and increase its Rvalue (insulation)? Use this method for lego blocks for building the walls of a house or the wall cavities of a house. Or for geodomes.
Another Idea would be to make a machine that was comparable to the spray foam gun for spray insulation, except using plastic. Air bubbles are also a must with this.
Any ideas on how to get the air pockets into the plastic?
A comparable technology may be aircrete, which uses bubbles mixed into a concrete mixture to provide higher insulation, strength, lightness, and to use less concrete.
Hi,
we at Cabinz have been exprimenting along a similar line, so far without success. We need a design for a lattice of plastic (possibly aireated ) that can be folded , inserted into a bottle through the small opening, then expanded/ folded. out to support the inside of the bottle wall from a vacuum. while the cap is replaced & air pumped out.
We have been working on an air filled eco brick inside reused plastic panels covered with fire proof mgo boards . We’ve also been trying to develop a way (unsucessfully so far) of supporting a Pet bottle internally or externally wihile having the air sucked out , as a vacuum is a much beter insualter than air