Used Tire Roof

Used tires are naturally weather resistant so they make great building walls.

Used tire roof. Diy home builds rarely use old tires but for an outdoor structure for weird architecture art mash ups they re the perfect. Pretty soon they would find themselves without a roof. Image 7 image 8. A used tire is a cost effective way to hold the tin sheets down.

To the right is the sketch for the new roof and it required 2 8 2 x4 and 3 4 x8 plywood sheets. Passenger car tires are 55 to 45 per cent light truck tires are 50 to 50 per cent race tires are 65 to 35 per cent and off highway tires 20 to 80 per cent. The concept remains the same. Next i wanted to know what other environmental problems tires cause other than those related to their composition.

I did a dry fit first to make sure. In the south thunderstorms typically precipitate strong winds. This is a project that i honestly never would have thought of had i not been asked to think outside the box. Kerkhof decided he d both 1 do the environment a good deed by disposing of surplus used tires and 2 cut down on the consumption of roofing materials.

Then using a mixture of hot glue and superglue i attached the shingles to the roof. Why tires on trailer roofs. When one tin sheet will blow off it will typically bring with it another panel or two. I had a few thoughts about what to make but i liked the idea of tire shingles the best.

When discount tire reached out to me for a fresh take on how to repurpose a used tire the gears started turning. You ll still have to add a roof but you ll have saved a bundle in material costs by using used tires for most of your structure.