[Cob] roofing idea

[David Knowlton]

pick a hardwood and cut your own shingles. labor intensive, but functional
and attractive if you do it right. the vikings carved gorgeous shaped 
shingles
for their stave churches. log cabins in the states had cut shingles that 
worked
well. good luck. i still want copper............

(at least i didn't say lead!!)


>From: "Marlin" <lightearth at onebox.com>
>To: tms at northcoast.com,cfgraham at starpower.net
>CC: coblist at deatech.com
>Subject: RE: Re: [Cob] roofing idea
>Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:08:22 -0400
>
>I would like to hear (maybe this has been discussed but I missed it) what 
>ideas are about roofing solutions for Natural Building. It appears to be 
>one of the toughest places to find 'perfect' solutions that are:
>
>1) local/natural materials
>2) not highly manufactured (homemade if possible)
>3) work in cold/wet climates
>4) aren't incredibly heavy to require an enormous superstructure (heavy is 
>relative)
>5) last for a long time and/or are easy to replace and recycle
>6) fit an architectural beauty standard that many people would find 
>beautiful/timeless (a lot of 'natural building' can be seen by the normies 
>as looking weird)
>
>I'm sure ALL of those standards will stir up some hornets on this list!
>
>Walls seem to be able to be made that fit all of these (heavy isn't an 
>issue for walls as much) but foundations and roofs have always been 
>tougher..
>
>Marlin Nissen
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:     Charmaine Taylor <tms at northcoast.com>
>Sent:     Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:45:04 -0700
>To:       "Grahams" <cfgraham at starpower.net>
>Cc:       coblist at deatech.com
>Subject:  Re: [Cob] roofing idea
>
>Caroline --Roofing with the 1time use aluminum plates printers throw away 
>has been suggested, as are flipping the used liscense plates over to the 
>silver side and nailing them up.  Dan  Phillips, a creative builder in TX 
>uses  them as siding,   www.phoenixcommotion.com
>
>and I have seen images of them used as siding also in the book Rural Studio 
>by Sam Mockabee.
>
>Charmaine Taylor Publishing  books at dirtcheapbuilder.com
>PO Box 375 Cutten CA   95534 707-441-1632
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>
>On Jul 2, 2004, at 9:41 AM, Grahams wrote:
>
>>Roofing seems to me to be one of the biggest expenses and most difficult 
>>tasks.  I I thought I heard of someone making a roof out of aluminum 
>>cans...anyone know about that? (Itseems like it would be LOTS of effort.)
>>
>>Caroline
>>_
>
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