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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Yep. You can certainly recycle a lot of parts of older houses that were decent in the first place.
The question is whether you can economically recycle them into new housing on the same site. My gut feeling is "No, you can't". In technical terms, housing construction is (or should be) "flexible mass production". You do it affordably by using a standard design that can be customized in detail, using standard parts that can be made and bought in quantity.
If you are trying to recycle existing material from existing housing into new dwellings on the same ground, forget standard parts. Each new dwelling, of necessity, becomes an example of "unique product production", requiring a custom design to make use of the available parts. It's a lot more expensive to do it that way.
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Dennis
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Granted ... but there's still a viable market for it ... and it should count as recycling. And, why should it be site specific?? I understand that there is a cost to move materials ... but I would think there could be some differentiation between materials that could be sold at a premium, and those that would be less valuable and still amenable to reuse.
But ... honestly, just from an aesthetic viewpoint, I hate the idea of homes being too much the same. It just makes me think of Daley City .. and the houses made of ticky tacky. If that's where we have to go in order to make recycling work ... then .... I'll pass.