On 5/4/2012 10:51 AM, Limp Arbor wrote:
On May 4, 11:22 am, wrote:
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The stores in my county sell it to the public then take the money to
build a new homes for those families who qualify. The law in Ontario,
from my understanding, is they cannot build brand new homes without
using brand new materials, ...

Is this just for charities like HfH? I would think re-using lumber,
brick, etc. would be encouraged instead of burying it somewhere.
....

I don't know about Canadian Code or other reg's on the subject but my
take from some builds in the past is at least in the States it's a
question of the logistics. The HfH builds are a modified "fast-build"
thing and pretty much standardized. Trying to work in random bits and
pieces of stuff from donations simply doesn't fit the model and would
take far more time (and in the end time is money even for nonprofits)
than it saves. So, the stores are the recycling project and essentially
a continual fundraiser.

There's a local nonprofit here w/ a differing route to the same goal of
affordable housing--it takes old houses in the original part of the town
and if feasible refurbs them completely (altho in some cases has had to
demolish and rebuild when repair costs were just beyond all reason
compared to end value) also w/ the new owner labor buy-in and a
combination of volunteer and contracted labor.

In those since they're one-of-a-kind anyway, we have both
salvaged/refinished/repaired original materials as well as used/salvage
from HfH or other sources. But, none of these are a quick-build
process, even the new construction.

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