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Combination of the environmentally responsible trend of using rammed earth for housing, and getting rid of old tyres.
Design consists of a number of steel poles, with cleats welded to one end, to allow roof trusses to be bolted to them.
Hammer a number of the poles into the ground, or set them
into the eg=dge of a concrete floor, then interlace used tyres over the poles, before filling them with sand and clay. Leave spaces for doorways and windows.
Waterproof, stable, insulating... housing at the drop of a hat. Stick a nice, waterproof roof on it and Viola! Cheap, too.
This would work a treat in Third World countries. Has the advantage of being quite safe, in the event of small arms fire.
Foam Flammability info for the UK
http://www.dti.gov....etwork/pdf/foam.pdf
You rang, mahthter? [UnaBubba, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Tyres in Earthships
http://www.earthship.org/
I repeat myself [dungbeetle, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Guess so. Never thought of it like that. |
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If you can lick the flammability issue, UnaBubba, then it's a grand idea. |
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There are other examples of this, I've seen one on weird homes that was adobe covered when finished and you would never know it was made from tires (+) |
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Flammability? Never seemed to be an issue before this that houses are capable of burning. If we can lick the Fire Brigade response times... |
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Good points all - I just had visions of tyrehouse fires raging for days on end, that's all. Forget I said anything. |
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Great - you even get nice ridges to hang things from. + |
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They're called 'simulators', [bliss]. |
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The flammability is a worry. Not because tyres are more flammable than wood -- they're not -- but because the fumes that come off them at hight temperatures are generally quite toxic with immediate effects. Cover the whole wall with earth as in IVnick8or's links and it shouldn't be a problem. |
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wax: I like the parallels drawn to a log home. Nice. |
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OK, I'll go with real English. |
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By the way, the fumes given off by wood and paints, at certain temperatures, are also very nasty. Of even greater concern is the foam in most affordable furniture. Combustion fumes from most foam is downright deadly. |
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Thanks for the spelling change. |
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Good point about the furniture. That'll combust at a much lower temperature. Dread to think what's in mine. |
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[link], just for you St Threef. |
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It's English for "tire", the rubber things used on automotive transport wheels. We use a weird spelling so as not to confuse it with a certain verb. |
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Good idea and certainly more reliable than the tiresome interpretation of the subtleties of context. |
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There's a link for ya!!, These things are ridiculously cheap to build and heat too. |
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