Met four swiftlet farming enthusiasts, climbed into two birdhouses, visited four more and have a nice seafood lunch at a famous Seafood Restorant.
Since there were something specials that I encountered, I would like to record them in this blog. Hopefully my blog readers will find them interesting and amusing.
How many types of benefits can a birdhouse get from styrofoam waste?
I used to say one. The one I am refering to is to cut them into small strips, soak in a home made aroma and fixed them up onto the nesting planks to turn them as "Fake Nests".
No this is not the case. This particular birdhouse use the same styrofoam to keep his birdhouse cool.
I think due to the direct sunlight shining on the wall of the birdhouse, his internal temperature must be pretty high. So he came out with this genius way of reducing the internal temperature by covering all his birdhouse walls with styrofoam. I am very facinated with great and creative ideas and this is one of best. See these pictures:
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The idea might be good but whether it works or not I am not sure. It is up to you to choose what to do with it. At most you can learn from it and the decision is yours. I am just reporting for the fun of it.
You never know what else they will come out with new ideas to resolve their internal temperature problems.
4 comments:
Good Try, but maintenance could be a problem.
Good try but hard to maintain.
Harry,
Can you find out whether the styrofoam works. I saw a documentary on Grancrete. Search in You Tube to see video of this product. Here they use styrofoam as the core material and then spray both sides of the styrofoam with this lightweight concrete which they call grancrete. I have an idea similar to this grancrete but formwork must be used. I am thinking of using a combination of 1" styrofoam sandwitched between a layer of wire mesh or BRC on the inside and cement mortar 1" thick on the outside to replace the conventional half or one brickwall. The cement mortar will be poured into either steel or timber forms. The styrofoam will be in sizes of 2' x 4' and there will be 1 " gaps in between to allow the cement mortar to flow through and enveloped the styrofoam on all faces. Anyone willing to try this innovation? Any comments.
tirokswifts,
I saw this method using cellulose pulp to reduce internal temperature of the normal house.
Go to http://www.homecomfortcfi.com
The system was claimed to reduce by 7*C before instalation say 30* after shud be 23*C.
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