Here’s a
site that describes using poured concrete instead of tires for the thermal
mass component. This might work better with respsect to conventional
aesthetics than the tires. As the webpage author puts it: “Selling an
“alternative” home can be very difficult: the type of family that would
like to own a house made out of strawbales or car tires is also the type
that would rather build it themselves. You need to hit a happy medium
between environmental idealism and common sense when choosing your home’s
building materials. Building with concrete block or poured-in-place
walls is tried and true commercial style construction, which saves money
and produces a much more “conventional” structure.”
posted at 14:37 on Sun, 10 Dec, 2006 |
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