At 08:48 AM 7/23/00 -0600, Steven Bissell wrote:
>I need some advice. I own (well, the bank owns it, but I'm buying it a nail
>at a time) 100 year old home, mostly made of wood. Today we are cleaning
>windows and have noticed that the house will need a paint job in a year or
>so. Most of the wood siding is still in good shape, but a few have rotted
>and need replacement. My son suggested replacing all the siding with vinyl.
>I'm not sure, isn't vinyl a type of plastic?
Vinyl is a plastic resin. It may or may not contain phthalates, but it does
contain chlorinated compounds. The preferable way to renovate the exterior
in my opinion is to use 'fireproof stucco'. If the renovation is to replace
a few boards, then use wood because you can paint it. Try to keep the water
off, or use western larch or cedar. Pine and spruce and Douglas-fir are not
root resistant.
I don't know if vinyl is recyclable so it may end up in the landfill.
>
>Anyway, for those of you oppose to the use of wood, what do you suggest I
>do? I mean really? Not pie in the sky "tear down the house and replace it
>with adobe" but what should I do? Use more wood or use vinyl?
>sb
>
The essence is thus the internal determination of to be, that which, when we
conceive to be, we are also forced to conceive: its intrinsic
presupposition. In this its truth consists; essence is radical truth.
The essence of the oak is the "reason" through which this process
"seed-tree-fruit" is a process intrinsically "oaking". And this character of
process which is the essence, Hegel will tell us, is something which we see
ourselves forced to conceive in order that there may be becoming; and
"forced to conceive" is precisely a character of thinking.
On Essence, Zubiri www.zubiri.org
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