Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: D.I.Y's Affordability Part 2 (1/2)

[Sally S. Leach (sleach]

In message Sun, 18 Jun 95 07:30 CDT,
  Harry_Pasternak [at] tvo.org (Harry Pasternak)  writes:

> - An Alternative Method of Construction is the "Amos System" contact Amos
> somewhere in the New England states or contact the Nova Scotia government
> for manual on "Amos System" or "Fine Homebuilding Magasine"
>
Harry: this sounds interesting but a reference to "somewhere in the New
England states" or "contact Nova Scotia government" is a bit vague.  Do you
have addresses for Amos or NS Govmt?

I would have reservations about using the cheapest siding and covering it
with vines, also, as the maintenance on this would be rather forbidding.
How would you paint?  What would prevent the vines penetrating and damaging
the siding, fostering rot?  Wouldn't a cement plaster finish (vines or no)
be better?

Tom Leach, Architect and Contractor, Austin, Tx