Now that's something worth considering. How do they look? Any pictures? Seems like a lot of work but DIY usually is.
I think it's good to have a lot of roof ideas. Papercrete is a great material - simple, cheap, good insulator, etc, but it's no good unless you have a roof with the same characteristics.
I am looking at use metal siding from an old building that is falling down. It can be patched and painted. Also thinking about use billboards and now this tire idea. What have others used? Spaceman, what is your roof?
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To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
From: huon@intas.net.au
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 18:09:55 +1100
Subject: [papercreters] Roofing
and I have recently thought of a new way that may be of use to people
building with papercrete.
Take one old tire (preferably from a 4x4). Cut around the circumference
of the tire in the soft side wall close to the tread. Use a very sharp,
sturdy knife as I do or a reciprocating saw with the sides ground of the
teeth. Remove the 2 sections of sidewall. (I place these upside down in
the garden and fill them with cement to give a rather interesting stepping
stone). Cut across the tread with an angle grinder fitted with a metal
cutting disc. This will give you a piece of tread the width of the tire
and around 5 feet long, or longer, depending on the size of the tire.
Make heaps of these and fix them to battens on the roof, one facing up,
the next facing down, as do the Chinese when making a roof from terracotta
pipes or split bamboo halves.
I have been using these treads as weatherboards fixed to the studs
horizontally with galvanized tek screws and they last forever. I see no
reason why, when fixed to the roof purlins vertically they will not be as
effective. And the heat they attract could be directed from the ceiling
space with a small fan into the house as required.
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