Dad was a Master Builder of the old school and known for his quality workmanship. When his teams built a house, it was solid, square and built to last. Before I could follow in his footsteps, the credit squeeze of the 1960’s hit, he closed up shop and we went farming, but I have always been interested in developments in the building industry.
Traditional structures are built with frames of timber or steel, and with materials not as plentiful as they were, framing timbers are not the quality they used to be. I still have friends who are in the building game and one is a plasterboard fixer. These days one of his greatest frustrations is trying to hang plasterboard on frames that are not square and which have warping in the timbers. If the underlying structure is not square and flat, the finishing off cannot look as good as it should. He is often delayed in his work while the framers are called back to square up their work.
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A marine paint is used for painting sailboats, yachts and ships that use both fresh and salt water. Its readily applied on both military and professional ships. This paint is also applied to freighters, passenger ships, offshore oil rigs, container ships, tankers, recreational yachts and boats as well as inland waterway ships, tow boats and barges. Marine paints contain high levels of copper and tin to kelp prevent or eliminate fouling from biological organisms, slime and algae. Its preferred in harsh marine environments because its highly engineered to prevent organic buildup and damage.
Today, we find some natural materials being used for marine paint formulations to produce environmentally friendly marine paints. Scientists use tube worms in dead powder form, green algae, and garlic as natural anti fouling components and it gives your vessel an all round protection from chemical, insects and worm damage.
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Shipping containers are useful, but are cluttering our ports. Without them America wouldn’t function as the America we all know. Goods and merchandise would arrive into our hands by very different means and likely a much higher price! The containers that carry our goods and vehicles into this country are stacked very high at times along the ports in order to make more room for new arrivals; and the containers continue to be stacked up more and more–it’s clutter! An innovative and green approach is to use these containers as homes. Yes! As homes…
The idea is to convert the rectangular boxes into viable homes. The benefits are that they are extremely sturdy and surpass all building codes in terms of rigidity and strength. They can withstand hurricane force winds and are excellent tornado shelters when placed underground. The main concerns would be getting the plans past the building department. There is a new uniform building code for shipping container homes beginning to work its way around the industry though, so passing code could be more easily achieved.
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