Tuesday, September 18, 2012

What does it mean to have a cement sticker?

Let's assume your home is made of cardboard. Then the rain and the snow are your enemies. The wind leaves your structure in tatters and the dew weakens your carefully arranged structure. Now let's introduce adhesive cement stickers into your realm and voila, your cardboard maze becomes a weather resistant structure almost providing a sense of safety and shelter while the wind and rain bounces off the concrete and cardboard walls. This temporary shelter is but one example of the many uses for cement stickers.

Now that there is a potential use for these items the big question becomes how much will they cost? Cement is relatively cheap and vinyl adhesive stickers aren't too expensive as compared to wood, but the process of putting these together is what will take some time and money. Also time is a factor, because it takes a certain amount of dry time to make these materials work the way they should. Cement takes 2-4 days to dry and Epoxy takes about 2 days, so a little more than a week would be necessary to get production rolling on a batch processing system that can produce laminate cement stickers. The best part about this is that corporate logos could be molded into the cement to pay for the process, Why Not? Beer, Wine, Crack Inc., 47%, or something like that. Adhesive stickers can make a box a home and why wouldn't companies want to make a difference. This may be the missing link between homeless and not homeless, if only there was a way to get indoor plumbing on the streets. Flooring is an issue, but that can be worked out pretty quickly with a little indoor-outdoor astro turf on top of cardboard and the deed is done.

Still a vinyl sticker can be just as good as cement without all the weight. Vinyl stickers would adhere to the cardboard better than anything and the top surface itself is resistant to water, so what's the big deal with cardboard, just sticker that shit and most weathering problems are solved. Cardboard may be the missing link for providing support inside my panels without adding much cost or weight. I have been resistant to using foam even though it is light, but cardboard has a different ring to it since it is not a common building material. I like using potential waste products for building materials and card board is a readily available material that if protected from the weather can provide a form of support.

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