Roughly 70 percent of the materials that used to be the shop were non-usable. Bugs and rot had devoured most of the building. I had to fix it cause it was seriously not usable. Three inches of water would well up no matter if it was just sprinkling out.
(Bike leaning against it)I've been able to recycle most of it but the roof had to go to the landfill. The new roof will last a minimum 50 years and is recyclable- steel. Its not the best one but it is produced locally so the embodied energy is less. When I was researching where to buy the new roof EVERYONE was like: "White?! are you sure you don't want a darker color?" Then I had to explain to every-freaking-one how darker values retain more radiation from the sun and that is a serious component to global warming.
All the streets and black roofs do nothing to help. White has been shown to be the best color (value) to use. A big problem with ice melt (glaciers) is that they are replaced with dark light/heat absorbing matter which then makes the melt even more rapid. Lovely huh?
What really chaps my hide is the lack of RIGHT materials available. I looked everywhere for Wheatboard or similar materials. Made from agricultural waste products wheatboard should be inexpensive and non-voc, water based binders. OSB is like plywood sheets but made from smaller pieces of waste wood chunks- they have damaging amounts of formaldehyde. I found two places that carry non-voc OSB (Oriented Strand Board) one supplier tried to convince me that they were all non-voc now... he did not know what the hell he was talking about.
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