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[Cob] roofing idea

drub drub at pobox.com
Fri Jul 2 14:40:19 CDT 2004


Wow!  Sure hope people examine the Dan Phillips site.
Powerful stuff.  www.phoenixcommotion.com

Thanks for including that URL.  Hope that sort of project
enjoys wild success!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: coblist-bounces at deatech.com [mailto:coblist-bounces at deatech.com] On
> Behalf Of Charmaine Taylor
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:45 AM
> To: Grahams
> 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
> www.dirtcheapbuilder.com  www.papercrete.com
> 
> 
> 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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