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Subject: 
Re: living in an ABS house?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:12:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Joe Strout wrote:
   A post in the Toronto newsgroup about building a concrete home has put an idea in my head, and now it won’t leave me alone. Maybe spitting it out here will make the voices shut up. :)

The idea: could some enterprising company (ideally, TLC) develop a line of large interlocking bricks, perhaps comprised of an ABS plastic shell filled with some form of insulation, such that you could actually build a home out of it?


SNIP

   Thanks, - Joe

Well, there’s already this and this. In all reality, I think it would be cheaper to use conventional building materials rather than ABS. Labor alone would be a killer.

-Duane



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  living in an ABS house?
 
A post in the Toronto newsgroup about building a concrete home has put an idea in my head, and now it won't leave me alone. Maybe spitting it out here will make the voices shut up. :) The idea: could some enterprising company (ideally, TLC) develop (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.general)

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