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Re: living in an ABS house?
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Date: 
Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:49:29 GMT
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Hate to burst your bubble, but it'd be a *HUGE* fire hazard!
ABS and other plastics are basically just solid oil.  They'll
burn like mad once they reached a certain temperature and started to
outgass.  Even covering a wall with baseplates would violate US fire
codes.  I assume there are simmilar laws in Canada...

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?



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(...) Which is interesting, because wood really likes to burn too, and yet we build houses out of it. Adrian (20 years ago, 16-Feb-05, to lugnet.general)

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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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