Sustainability or petty mean-ness. you decide.

[saveasteading]

I have been repurposing concrete shutters as timber wall cassettes.

 

We had to do some unexpected work, in removing a perimeter slab edging of insecure  blockwork, and pouring a new ring beam in its place. 

A few £k in the wrong direction.

 

To mitigate this, we made the shutters higher than necessary (could just about have been 400mm, but made them 600).

Thus they are mostly half sheets of ply, 2400 x 600, with 4 x 2 framing.

 

The builder understood this and removed the shutters with minimum damage.

I have been erecting them as a kit-form  enclosure in the garage.

 

I will summarise my own pluses and minuses later. 

 

I have pictures and will attach them to a later post direct from the phone,  for my own ease.

 

It's obviously better for the world than burning them, and dismantling isn't easy as the screws are well embedded in the ply.

They are dirty with mud and concrete too, but most of it will be over-clad in timber or metal.

 

But they are making a rather low quality of wall, so I have dropped my own score from 100% to 80%.

Perhaps a proper joiner would do better, but equally wouldn't like working with compromised material.

 

 

 

 

[saveasteading]

 

[joe90]

It’s easy to piss money away on new stuff for anything. I am a firm believer in re cycling so good on you, if it’s being clad then who is to know anyway???

24 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

But they are making a rather low quality of wall,

But is it “fit for purpose” I.e. will it do its job? If so the I would argue it’s still 100% 👍

[saveasteading]

20 minutes ago, joe90 said:

is it “fit for purpose” I.e. will it do its job?

To me yes. I think anybody who might be doubtful won't notice unless i point it out, so i won't.

 

Iive learnt a bit about the foibles of these so the next use, on a more important wall, will be improved.