Comments on: Building With Tires http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/29/building-with-tires/ Make Everyday Earth Day Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elizabeth Rose http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/29/building-with-tires/comment-page-1/#comment-45044 Elizabeth Rose Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:02:46 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21522#comment-45044 Our family has built an earth-rammed tire garage at our suburban home in Georgetown, Massachusetts this summer. Please read about it in my blog at http://lizyrose.wordpress.com/. Interestingly enough we used 540 tires for the walls. We ordered them from a licensed scrap tire company in Littleton, MA called JP Routhier. They chop up the incoming tires into smaller and smaller bits to make tire derived fuel (TDF) and ship it to paper and wood processing plants in Maine. Presumably the fuel is going to make some 2 x 4s that will stand in the walls of a garage and eventually rot. Using the tires saved all the energy and expense of shipping the fuel and creating more greenhouse gases to make a raw material (the 2x4s) that will not have the resilience and the flexibility that the tire does in the first place. Our motto is: Don't renovate, REtire. Our family has built an earth-rammed tire garage at our suburban home in Georgetown, Massachusetts this summer. Please read about it in my blog at http://lizyrose.wordpress.com/.
Interestingly enough we used 540 tires for the walls. We ordered them from a licensed scrap tire company in Littleton, MA called JP Routhier. They chop up the incoming tires into smaller and smaller bits to make tire derived fuel (TDF) and ship it to paper and wood processing plants in Maine. Presumably the fuel is going to make some 2 x 4s that will stand in the walls of a garage and eventually rot. Using the tires saved all the energy and expense of shipping the fuel and creating more greenhouse gases to make a raw material (the 2x4s) that will not have the resilience and the flexibility that the tire does in the first place. Our motto is: Don’t renovate, REtire.

]]> By: joe dupont http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/29/building-with-tires/comment-page-1/#comment-32850 joe dupont Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:48:08 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21522#comment-32850 Has anyone bolted tires together and made an arch with them. or a vault. it would seem that either full or empty.. properly secured to the ground that an arch cold be made. Has anyone bolted tires together and made an arch with them. or a vault. it would seem that
either full or empty.. properly secured to the ground that an arch cold be made.

]]> By: KinKStar http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/29/building-with-tires/comment-page-1/#comment-30809 KinKStar Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:36:00 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21522#comment-30809 An interesting concept, which unfortunately, still is rarely used or even mentioned in the real world, because it's seen as some kind of new age building. People need some modernization of the design in order to be able to accept this look, and while it can be made to look 'normal,' what is involved in the building process itself. Does one have to own several acres in order tp place these materials into the ground? Many, many questions! More pictures would be great, as well as personal experiences from owners and/or builders. An interesting concept, which unfortunately, still is rarely used or even mentioned in the real world, because it’s seen as some kind of new age building. People need some modernization of the design in order to be able to accept this look, and while it can be made to look ‘normal,’ what is involved in the building process itself. Does one have to own several acres in order tp place these materials into the ground?

Many, many questions! More pictures would be great, as well as personal experiences from owners and/or builders.

]]> By: Penz Custom Homes http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/29/building-with-tires/comment-page-1/#comment-30683 Penz Custom Homes Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:26:35 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21522#comment-30683 Thanks for the great post! I found it very interesting. When you get a chance please check out my site at <a href="http://www.penzcustomhomes.net/" rel="nofollow">Rochester MN Real Estate</a>. Thanks for the great post! I found it very interesting. When you get a chance please check out my site at Rochester MN Real Estate.

]]> By: diana http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/29/building-with-tires/comment-page-1/#comment-30674 diana Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:02:10 +0000 http://earth911.com/?p=21522#comment-30674 i'd like to find a way to make steps from tires. i’d like to find a way to make steps from tires.

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