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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stephen O who wrote (4995)	8/26/2003 2:31:55 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Some of the new metal looks quite good they say, don't know, i never notice that sort of thing, but i hear there is one design they stamp out to look like shakes, or at least shingles .... twenty-five years ago i was stuck on shakes, wanted as handmade a house as possible, after selling a series of houses wanted one to keep ... in fact, scoring the shake cedar was a factor in deciding to build, kind of a catalyst, along with finding a few yellow cedar logs on the beach and doing the illegal but highly effective whizzeroo on them ..... definitely into non-flammable now though, with the summers we've been getting recently I'm going to check out Carmanah one of these days .... physically i mean, already familiar with it in the stock sense ... it's not an unhealthy chart they've got recently, and the news looks quite decent ..... as for manufacturing on the Island, lots of things are made there, and lots more could be, it's a completely pleasant place to live and not high-cost at all .... especially if you move north of Victoria, anywhere up island from Duncan will find much lower living costs, same available educated labour force, and just as close to ferries and airports ... when you make something high-value, transport cost becomes less of a factor, the thing is to make it right, keep the quality control ..... you go the maquiladora route when you're producing high volume and your product has become somewhat commoditised, and it doesn't always work out even then, there can be many problems ... can't write off BC for manufacturing, by those with the right ideas

To: Stephen O who wrote (4995)	8/29/2003 6:51:02 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

All you do is put expanded metal or closely spaced wood slats wood down, and spray it or lay thick paste concrete on it about .375 to 1/2 inch thick and card it with a close tined rake, producing grooved channel/rivulets down the slope. No heavier than tile. A 17' X 40' roof slab would weigh 3247 lbs in concrete at .375 thick (not counting the expanded metal which only adds 20%.) Voila, fireproof, windproof, cool roof that is easily repairable and strong. You can do it in metal/concrete tiles or squares, or larger sheets. If you do it in sheets or tiles, then the bottom edges could be covered with grooved cement in about 6 inches and perhaps tarpapered at the overlay join. These type of tiles may need a gutter groove to prevent leakage, but its a matter of experiment. Shakes don't seem to need it. EC<:-}