Scrap Happy
While deconstructing the REX house we had quite a few wanna-bee takers of our scrap metal. People would slowly drive by and ask us for our water heater, or politely offer to take all our gutters, flashing, air conditioner, and floors vents. My head cocked in puzzlement until Glenn, (the hubby) shared with me the value of metal these days. I started to panic. Are our materials going to grow legs and mysteriously walk away? Is the REX Project, the great attempt to reuse and recycle everything experiment going to disappear? I wasted no time gathering up my newly discovered monetary treasures and tucked them into the storage container.
Now what do I do? I have protected my belongings but it doesn’t do much good just having them sit there. Stephen Aiguier*cq my Project Mentor from Green Hammer Inc.*cq referred me to Keith Bailey*cq the owner of Taylor Metal Inc.*cq www.taylormetal.com*cq a roofing company. Taylor Metal Inc.*cq products are 100% recyclable and can increase my home’s energy efficiency by saving as much as 20% on summer utility bills. Oh, it gets better, the roof has a life span of 75 years. Keith and I met at the REX site and I showed him my metal stash. He pointed to it, plus all my broken sewer pipes and said these are what our roofs are made of. I have never been so happy about scraps.
posted by Shannon @ 6:03 PM
2 Comments:
I'm confused here. You recycled the scrap metal, right? Then had your roofing sub put up a "New" metal roof, right? The way I read it, you weren't recycling your old metals and were hoarding them in some container??
Sorry to confuse you. Our air conditioner, water heater, flashing, old broken pipes were taken to the recycling center and Taylor Metal Products, our roofing company buys those materials to create their product.
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