Roof Made From Old Tires

I knew these were the type of tires i needed but i needed a lot of them it turns out the guy at the local tire dealer knew someone who had a ton of old racing tires.

Roof made from old tires.

Since 1988 phoenix already used up 15 million old tires and 4 2 million tons of asphalt rubber to reconstruct roads. Penfolds roofing installs eco friendly roofing in the vancouver bc area using with ecoroof rubber roof shakes. Unfortunately more than 290 million tires are dumped or tossed into landfills. It went rather smoothly but it did take two people and still took about 45 minutes to make 12 to 14 shingles.

Rubber roofing shingles from recycled tires would you ever want a rubber roof. And then using as many sections of tread as he needs to cover a roof. Learn how to make shingles out of old rubber tires through this personal experience. I drilled a hole in the tread and used a key hole saw to start cutting.

Rubber roof shingles are made from rubber powder which is ground from old tires. Some 200 miles of highways and roads have been reinforced for an average of 1 750 old tires for every lane mile. Strong and durable the rubber used to make tires has many uses long after the tires are no longer fit for the road. June 25 2019 one day i saw a bunch of old tires used as a retaining wall and that got me thinking about what other uses old tires are good for.

As a result the recycled shingles have a similar aesthetic to the natural ones but are lighter cheaper more flexible and more durable. For more information visit http www penfold. The top of the roof was 4 high and the lower portion was only 3 high. The major ingredient in rundle slate ranchlands shake vermont sl.

The rubber fragments are then scraped clean of any steel and nylon threads. In liquid form the ground rubber is poured into molds that resemble wood and slate shingles. Kerkhof has now patented a method of cutting the sidewalls away from the tread portion of an old tire.