Tire-house Builders: No More Pounding!!!

 

What's NEW in Tire-house Design? -- Tire-BALES!!!

What is a tire bale?

    Tire-bales are "big rubber bricks".  Place them in the wall with a large fork-lift, a hay-grapple, larger size skid-steer w/forks (3,000# tipping weight, minimum), or a backhoe. They're made in an hydraulic press,  click to see the press exerting extreme forces to compress approximately 100 tires into a "brick" 2-1/2' x 5' x 5', weighing ~2,000#, wrapped with (5) .113 inch dia. steel wires pre-formed into square-knot ends which are hooked together when the press reaches it's compression capacity.  The press is then released and the bale is completed.  The bale is now the density of most wood, weighing in at roughly 50 pounds per cubic foot and containing only 5% air.

See more on the bale itself here:

 

    Click to see info on the Encore Systems, Inc., Tire Baler To email Encore Systems for the locations of baling machines in your area, click THIS, give them your location and ask for the nearest baling machines to you.  (I have no connection with Encore Systems, Inc. and do not know where they have recently-located machines)

    Because of the enormous square footage of bearing surface for each running foot of framed wall created by a tire bale wall (5 square feet), no reinforced concrete foundation is necessary except where tire bales aren't used.  All that is required is that the topsoil and any organic matter be removed from the leveled grade before placing the bales.

    Click for more information (118K .PDF file) on residential building with tire bales see this paper: "Building With Tire Bales - Addressing Some Engineering Concerns" by Leonard Jones, P.E.  To go to Leonard's Website CLICK THIS

To see more on> Tire Bales

DRAWINGS of Houses:

Click Thumbnail Buttons to See Larger Drawings

Click the thumbnail at left to see the Floor Plan, a typical cross-sectional elevation of the two-level design approved and permitted in Las Animas County, Colorado!!   For the Floor Plan, Sectional Elevation, framing interface/concrete bond beam and a brief description of this two level, passive-solar home click the thumbnail at left. 

Another tire-bale house is designed, plans drawn, engineered, and gets a permit  in Ouray County, Colorado.  For the Floor Plan to this single level, passive-solar home, click the thumbnail at left.  For the Sectional Elevation click the thumbnail at right.  To go to the website of the owner/builders to watch it being built, click THIS. 

Click thumbnail at left to see a 'fly-by' illustration of the fourth tire-bale design, now engineered and in process for a permit in Park County, Colorado.  

 

For elevations of the fourth house, in Fremont County, Colorado, click thumbnail at left.  To go to my pix of this house in process click the thumbnail at right.  To go to the website of the owner/builder and "watch" it being built, click THIS.

 

 

 

Click the picture on the left to go to my pages of pix of the Hagar Tire-bale house construction.  To go to their Website pages click THIS.