#40 We made a roof from RECYCLED PLASTIC sheets

hey welcome to a new project camp update so we bought this big piece of land and are prototyping a more sustainable way of living not sure how it's going to go but let's see and in the previous video you could see us building a roof for our pizza so we now have a pizza hut and in this video we're going to build a roof for our shipping container but it's not going to be just a normal roof we're going to do something experimental something which i actually have never seen before we're going to make a roof on recycled plastic sheets no idea if this makes sense or how to behave in the long term but that's why we're going to try it out we document it so it's a bit like a living prototype so let's start off with the most important thing first getting the sheets okay so we want to get our sheets from a precise plastic workspace in case you don't know precise plastic is a project that provides knowledge and machines to recycle plastic and is all shared open source for free so you can start your own plastic recycling workspace it's kind of cool i think the project is from denmark or something i don't know i'll say check out their website and they have this cool map where you can find all their different kind of workspaces around the world and we need sheets so we went to the map to find the closest by sheepas workspace in this case it's here in france so we asked them to make our sheets hi we are fab unit and we are going to make roof tiles for project comp we gonna make it from polypropylene coming from industrial waste we are going to make 28 of it 10 millimeters thick with cnc fish let's go [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] i think he's right there right oh [Applause] so here we have our sheets they actually look super beautiful very well finished and smooth a nice cnc cutted edge to make sure we can overlap them and it doesn't leak it's always nice to see the flaky pattern to see the yellow blending in the white it almost looks like a stone you might wonder why would you use recycled plastic in this natural environment and i think in general if you think about sustainable living you have these two options you use more natural materials but also more recycled materials so using what's already there and this is a test to see how can we incorporate recycled plastics and we do this more often we also have some recycled bowls we're using or a brick wall or a toilet seat just to test out to see if we can realistically incorporate it in our lives and how it behaves over time so this is just another one of those tests because we don't know how it behaves with the sun and the uv degradation or the rain how it influences the sheets so we're gonna build it test it out analyze it keep track of it and document it and in the end we might tell you guys never build a plastic roof because it doesn't make any sense or maybe it does make sense and in that case it would be kind of a useful application because there are many roofs to build and a lot of plastic goes into one sheet so this is 10 kilogram so you can recycle quite in bulk amounts so this is 280 kilograms of plastic but before we're going to install the roof we first need to build a structure so we're going to do that next we're going to build a structure right there in front of the kitchen and first we're going to make some space and prepare the ground [Music] so next we are going to build a piece of metal to attach the wooden beams under the plastic sheets to the metal frame of the solar there this is going to be a bit of cutting welding drilling and painting so let's start hey so so [Music] okay so the wood arrived we have a lot of oiling sanding and cutting ahead of us this will take us a lot of hours quite a few days but for you guys with me much quicker [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] all right so now we have all the wood cut it as you can see it's kind of a lot actually compared to the size of base camp it's laying all around we have some there some here um but basically everything is now cut it here you can see a lot of sawdust we made and we're going to use that for our compost toilet and here the dark brown area is going to be the floor here the big beams are going to use as pillars to hold up the roof and over here this is going to be for the roof and as you can see we made a lot of cuts in here so it should all just be puzzled and fit together i'm not sure how it's actually gonna go because all the wood is a little bit bended and warped but i guess we're gonna see next when we're actually gonna assemble it [Music] so [Music] so we have a little issue here this bean goes in this part of the container laying here but in this side as you can see it's a bit bended so we'll need to bend it down easy [Music] does it work not working we're going to try with a car jack to bend it back let's see i don't know how it's going to go but let's see hmm so we finally cut a little piece here because the cardiac didn't go i'm bending this down it's quite impossible by hand so we got it and now it fits [Music] [Music] [Music] so the floor structure is now ready and it's all leveled straight connected so we can walk on it we added a few points to lift up the wood and not the most elegant solution but it works and the beams itself are clamped in this edge in the container together with this one next we're going to continue building the structure to make sure everything is straight and then we're going to put in the floor paneling and the roof paneling darn it oh [Music] [Music] this [Music] [Music] shoot [Music] [Music] [Music] so the roof is now up next the floor [Music] [Music] the entire structure is now ready and sturdy and the frame on top should hold 28 sheets so yeah let's try so we're now going to put up the sheets on the roof and there are a bit of difference in the pattern so you have with white flakes and more dark ones so we're gonna make a nice pattern and also we have two different towels one our legs flush on one side and have the overlap here so we can put them together and the middle ones have an overlap on both sides so we need to puzzle them together to make sure it all fits but yeah it's time to put on the roof [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] yes [Music] finish [Music] right yeah so structure is now ready and this really felt like the last thing to set up for base camp so we have a shady place in the summer not in the winter in the winter it serves as a rain roof so now we have a good comfortable setup here so we can continue being on the land and do all the other work we have to do and but we're going to stop now because this is the end of season 1 but we're going to come back the 14th of april when season 2 starts so make sure to subscribe so you don't forget to see that video because we have a lot of big things we still have to do alright so that was it thanks for watching and see you in the next season you

Channel: Project Kamp

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Keywords: project, kamp, sustianble, living, community, off-grid, portugal, santa comba dao, sustainable, gree, ecology, forrest, plastico reciclado, plastic, recycle, precious plastic

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Length: 19min 30sec (1170 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 15 2021