Cob Re: Temporary roof: ideas needed.

[Patrick Hayes]

This idea is great.  I have seen a roof of this nature in Arcata @ Humboldt State
Universtiy.  The Center for Appropriate Technology did a shed this way.

I was thinking of using old soup cans much the same way.  this is a little more
durable, but nearly as easy.  I thougt about using copper nails and intentionally
letting them streak the bimetal cans for some cool coloration.  There may be an
issue with dissimilar metals and longevity.  Cheers to all.


Christopher Witmer wrote:

> Mike Carter and Carol Cannon wrote:
>
> > Is there
> > anything that is somewhat flexible and shingle-like and does not require
> > underlayment?
>
> How about paper milk cartons cut to lay flat? The heavy paper is of extremely
> high quality and coated on both sides with a thin film of polyethylene which
> makes it waterproof, at least until sunlight eventually breaks it down. A great
> deal of overlap might be required. Maybe you would even want to tar over it,
> maybe not. And perhaps you could just thatch right over them when you finally
> get around to that. If you put the inside out, the roof would be pure white and
> would reflect a lot of the sunlight -- perhaps a plus where you live.
>
> This comes to mind because where I live (Japan) people recycle these into toilet
> paper and in no time I can collect thousands of such cartons all washed, cut and
> bundled from the recycling bins in front of supermarkets or from the centers
> where they are consolidated before being shipped off for reprocessing into
> toilet paper.
>
> -- Chris Witmer