The verandah is ready. Here we can see the older roof cover on top of the new one. Again, the new roof is made of recycled Tetra Pak milk, juice, tomate sauce packages - you know the packaging material used for Long Life milk and so on. This kind of roof is very good for the tropics or near tropical areas. Our verandah is very cool depíte several days when temparatures have gone beyond 40º C. My goal is to change the whole roof of the house for this or simliar material and technology.


The under side of the roof cover looks lihe this. You can see that it has many colors and peices of plastic and other material. In some of the I can still read iformation and instructions which makes happy to remember that this could have ended up in city dumps throughout the country. Also something very important: all the lumber that I have used has been somewhere else before; I bought the in a place that sells used building material. So they have been reused - which is one of the three Rs I want to practice.