Used Tire Roof

You ll still have to add a roof but you ll have saved a bundle in material costs by using used tires for most of your structure.

Used tire roof.

I did a dry fit first to make sure. A used tire is a cost effective way to hold the tin sheets down. Diy home builds rarely use old tires but for an outdoor structure for weird architecture art mash ups they re the perfect. Pretty soon they would find themselves without a roof.

The concept remains the same. To the right is the sketch for the new roof and it required 2 8 2 x4 and 3 4 x8 plywood sheets. In the south thunderstorms typically precipitate strong winds. Used tires are naturally weather resistant so they make great building walls.

Then using a mixture of hot glue and superglue i attached the shingles to the roof. Image 7 image 8. One day i saw a bunch of old tires used as a retaining wall and that got me thinking about what other uses old tires are good for. I hadn t thought about this but it makes perfect sense.

Passenger car tires are 55 to 45 per cent light truck tires are 50 to 50 per cent race tires are 65 to 35 per cent and off highway tires 20 to 80 per cent. When one tin sheet will blow off it will typically bring with it another panel or two. This is a project that i honestly never would have thought of had i not been asked to think outside the box. Why tires on trailer roofs.

By as you ve probably guessed. When discount tire reached out to me for a fresh take on how to repurpose a used tire the gears started turning.