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Re: living in an ABS house?
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lugnet.general
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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. :)
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> 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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