Anyone else considered Green Building?
Since we have property and have decided to expand our business the need for a building came up....We started looking at the different pole barn systems that can be erected but the costs were just so prohibitive....So we have decided to move on to a green building system.
We have gone with the tire building system because of the strength of the finished product and the benefits from the standpoint of heating and cooling.
For those that do not know what this is I will try to explain....
The basis of using tires for building is simple. You lay out a foundation line of tires in the outline of the building that you want to build and then fill them with dirt and ram pack them tight. Then you start the next level where you stagger stack the tires and once again fill them with dirt (you will in the spaces with partial tires or concrete if you want)
Once you have the walls as high as you want you then cover them with an adobe like substance inside and out and let it harden.
For a roof you can do just about anything that you want. we have gone with the flat roof, slightly pitched for run off....
The thickness of the walls means that once the building is heated up it will stay that way and the same with the cooling.
The costs associated with this kind of building are minimal to say the least....We are getting all the tires for free, delivered right to us, and most of them have rims, which means cash....About half of them that were delivered yesterday have aluminum rims on them! We are goign to use the money from scrapping out the rims to pay for the roof and the garage doors that are necessary.
I got lucky in the fact that the guy that works for me is skilled with electrical so I can get the placed wired for just the cost of wire and so on.
Just thought I would share....;)
