Hail Damaged roof turns into showers that last a lifetime, most will adore, 125 yrs old. Salvaged Showers!
Showers & Wet walls will last forever more, having survived the Hail, storms, and winds for a hundred years, sustainable SpaceMagic Designs.
Suppose you wanted to create your showers with a material that has proven it can last through Hail… not Hell necessarily as it could be too hot there, but Texas was not hot enough, nor the hail big enough to kill these roofing shingles in a hundred years. Sewing them into your house instead of onto the top will give you a masterpiece of longevity and beauty, true durability like no other product out that has a 0 carbon footprint to create out of the best steel on the planet in its day… thick too due to plentiful resources. The window, a set of three on the end of this house, made it amazingly cozy in this bath. Learn how to create such wonders as a team to do it for a living and you would make a grand a shower for the walls, more for the floors, and if you add such windows, you will be a star.
This is a broken granite floor for this shower and a pattern I call gothic on the walls that looks like waterfalling. Long Leaf Pine for trim on this one, sometimes Teak or Cypress too. Milk paint on the cabinet doors will come to life once oiled, like the metals and the floors… hemp oil works great.
Here are some before shots to see the mud go in that forms the base, then the drain, walls, underlayment, and other things, plumbing being a big one to consider, as you finish off your dream shower. You can take this back out again and reuse it if you put it up right. The example above was a seminar on the floors and doing mosaics. That was created by a retired Marine Major, a lady with hair as long as mine but she could pop it into a marine tight braid in less than a minute… like high speed magic, and she did a great job on this floor too.
Decorative tin for backsplashes is beautiful and we can show you how to do that as part of the metal seminar for showers and decor. It will be a weekend seminar so you can stay in tents, houses, or RVs in some cases for the 3 day -2 week potential learning experiences covering a siding, roofing, cabinetry, showers, flooring, ceilings, and other subjects of interest to the limited groups coming for these seminars. Each will have the chance to buy materials to take home or work on during nonassigned seminar periods by signing off on liability for hurting themselves or others while working unsupervised.
You could rent a group of the Tiny Texas Houses of Salvage, Tx. to stay in for a group to learn how to create your tiny showers, houses, or communities if we get enough people interested, 6 -8 people per seminar designed around the experience levels and needs of the group, perhaps to assemble the parts we pick, design, and once you know how, go home to create our own house with the stash of windows, doors, and floors you can take from the massive TTH Warehouses.
This will only work with mature people who will not be allowed to drink while working with power tools, not a party affair but a week or more of learning how to be self sufficient with tools and salvage to create at tiny house, then on to bigger later if you choose. Here is another shower floor with a tile mix for a seminar, not perfect but perfunctional. The idea is to show you how, then let you go on to teach others, share, and perhaps create your magical showers one day too.
Once you know the basics, with guidance from afar and the designs, you will have the skill to screw it up right… I like screws and nailing some things too. These are some of the houses I trained crews to build and then watched them go on to make good money for their skillsets and proof of what they could do. Only a few went on to create a house or two but most thought with a few months or a year or two, that was all they needed to learn to go on and make it on their own. I do not have employees or a crew now so you can come as a group, learn to build, and take orders I would gladly send to those who can build right with salvage.
Early galvanizing used lots of zinc, flakes you can see that gave it an incredible first life before taken down over the valleys rusting though due to poor maintenance generally. Roofers don’t salvage the shingles, new versions that are thinner cost $1 a square foot. Why not use the character and triple thickness, the carbon friendly truly sustainable salvage from our ancestor’s hard work 350 days a year without vacation pay, sick pay, or the rights that most think nothing of these days. Kids started work stoking fires in the furnaces, pulling the coal that made this in the 1800’s, 12 years old.
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