Re: SB: Small, cheap, easy, and temporary

[Mikal Jakubal <mjakubal@asis.com>]

Hi Luc,
Just a few more thoughts... Your best cheap, eco-roofing will be used metal
roofing. The stuff can be found free or for sale everywhere. Don't remember
if you said where you are, but every rural area I've ever lived in had lots
of it around. (If you were near here, I could point you to two or three
people who probably have some for sale.) You might try metal scrap yards.
They'd probably sell it to you for scrap price. Just patch the holes with
roofing tar, silicone or somesuch. Re-use or recycle it when you're done,
though...

....as someone else said, "temporary" structures have a way of becoming
permanent. That's why I won't build a temporary structure, no matter how
desperately it is needed. If you really want it to be temporary, don't put
*any* foundation under it. In a couple years, when the bottom bales are
rotten and the whole place starts to sag, you'll *have* to replace it. 

And I guarantee you, you'll wish you'd made it a little more "permanent." 

If the list archives are working, try looking up the posts I did about the
fire in my unplastered vaulted sb last summer. You really have to
plaster--at least one coat. If it's a small place, it really won't take
that long, and will be a great learning experiment. Unplastered bales are
also fabulous mouse habitat. Not a problem if you don't mind Hanta virus
and mouse poop everywhere. They can also seriously decrease the structural
integrity of the bales by chewing them to fluff.

Good luck,
Mikal 

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