Pondering the Potential Possibility of Papercrete Mortar During my visit to this year's Midwest Renewable Energy Fair, I moseyed on over to Rob Roy's booth to see what was new and interesting. Rob showed me a hunk of papercrete mortar that James Juczak made while...

Before pouring in the sand and laying down the tubing, the bottom and the sides of the trench need to be insulated. This prevents most of the heat from escaping into the ground and allowing the majority of the heat to finds its way into the house through the concrete...

IDig Memorial Day And that about sums up my Memorial Day weekend. I spent the weekend digging a trench inside of the house that will eventually be filled with sand and used to store heat from the solar heating system. You are probably asking yourself by now, "When is...