#40 We made a roof from RECYCLED PLASTIC sheets 

Here you can see how we made recycled plastic toilet seats: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--6RAbLo2kI4.html

One way to protect the roof from UV would be to create a living roof where the plastic roof is covered in soil and living plants (grass?). This would also aid in insulation and keep temperatures down in the summer.

as a roofer, i'd suggest using sheets that are half the thickness, then "shingling" them over each other, rather than doing the flush-mount thing. it would be the same amount of plastic up there, the same thickness, but all of the seams would have backing, no sealant would be required (sealant fails after time), all of your fasteners would be concealed/not exposed to weather, and you can gap the shingles/tiles/sheets/whatever-you-want-to-call-them to account for thermal expansion - i suspect that roof is going to buckle and warp after a few days or weeks under summertime sunlight if you want any help with this concept for this or future roof projects, feel free to contact me - i'd be happy to offer advice. good job guys! keep it up. love off-grid and sustainable living.

I love your dynamism and can-do attitudes.

There's a huge amount of research available on recycling plastic as a building material. There are TONS of ANSI structural specs available. There's a great roof tile video out there and it gets VERY high marks from several environmental watchdogs. At a 70/30 mix of plastics and sand, the substance is structural when cast as blocks for single story structures. There are about 50 structural studies confirming safety benchmarks over the past 20 years. The data and knowledge has been out there for years, but it wasn't fashionable enough to obliterate the stigma of a "home built from trash". Sensibilities rarely evolve as fast as the technology. Love watching your project come together.

One layer of paint blocks nearly 100% of uv degradation in plastics. Hardly matters what color or type.

From above, the colour really blends in with the surrounding pine trees.

Came for the plastic roof. Stayed for the music and awesome French sense of can-do.

i love the focus on the ladder's feet at a crucial moment. "No, not sketchy at all!"

What a great #1 season. Looking forward to season #2...

It's insane how much I love these guys solely due to the fact I learn so much in such a short time just by watching their videos.

Those FRENCHIES ARE COOL!!! Great partners!

Safety Notice: Do NOT wear gloves around drill presses, or similar rotating tools(mills, lathes)! Like any fabric or long hair these can get tangled in the tool and will reel in your fingers, hand and arm until something gives. So rather risk scratch marks, than ripped of limbs.

I do feel a bit sad knowing i wont see a new video untill April but dang im looking forward to it. I wish to all members of Project Kamp a good Xmas and a happy new year already!!

Oh I’ll miss you guys. But I’ll wait! I think you all are just amazing. Blessings to your future!

I’ve had to resort to watching all your videos again while I wait for April!

I'd be curious to see frequent soil tests near a plastic roof. this way we could get an idea on how much micro-plastic runoff is being absorbed in the immediate area.

Why not use solar panels to build a roof? More power and no possible micro plastics in your soil when the plastic degrades by uv and erodes by rain.

Hi maybe not the place the world has become a sadder place with what’s happening in Europe. Please bring a smile 😊 to our faces with your clip’s.

I LOVE DRY HUMOR. YOU FELLOWS ARE FUNNY. I HAD ALOT OF FUN LAUGHING DURING YOUR VIDEO. I WILL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR NEXT FAMILY VIDEO. PEACE 🕊️ SHALOM 🙏 ADONAI!

This is SOOOO exciting !!!! Two questions. a) What is to stop a high wind from lifting the sheets off the roof ? b) Why was no sealant applied between sheets to stop rain from seeping through. c) I would suggest that a water catchment at the bottom edge with a collection tank for various uses. I have long wondered why recycled plastics is not used for creating building members for earthquake zone rapid construction.

The lack of a proper overlap is likely to cause some leakage issues. A fun project nonetheless but I guess that the French design team don't have much experience in rain proof tiling nor in UV protection. The energy is good so keep innovating! 👍

Cutted isn't a word Its cut Look forward to seeing you in April Keep up the Good work Peace from New Zealand

Loved the awkward goodbye..... will miss you.... see you in the second season ;) have a good vacations!!!! ;)

As always, so impressed by Dave and the Team of Project Kamp. Y'all are awesome! Can't wait to see what comes next.

Well designed framework and the plastic looks great. Good job.

Of all the things that make me miss you guys... that metal cold saw hits the hardest :')

Wow, you should be so proud of your accomplishments. You saw a problem, designed and built an ecosystem to help fix it, then used that very system to prove things could be done smarter. Bravo!

Nice idea, curious about the UV exposure and micro plastics. Would also be a great place for additional solar.

Really enjoy your videos, greetings from Indonesia❤

The plastic roof turned out unexpectedly beautiful! And the flooring/covering over the kitchen container really pulled things together. Great work! Love it!

Plastic in positive usage, in environment is much better than plastic waste destroying the environment!! I've Re-used plastic's for so many Re-Uses over the decades !!!:D

Love what you are doing in Portugal and love watching these videos… 🌀💚🌀

Awesome work everyone, cool to see more people regularly in base kamp. Have a nice and productive vacations. Hoping for some cool new content next season !

So lovely to see you building, and to see you have more outdoor usable space for bad weather.

This is something I love seeing. By 2008 the US Navy would take all plastic, to include candy wrappers and just melt it all together into disk the size of a stepping stone and then off load and unfortunately it went into the trash., After retiring, seeing the mountains of plastic in countries that lacked sufficient housing I had thought of these disk and asked why it couldn't be expanded to create actual building materials from the mountains of plastic in the ocean, on land.... I even took the time to look for and email groups I believed had the ability to take what they were doing to the next level or had the ability to reach the ears of those that could do something to solve 2 problems at once, plastic pollution and housing. It brings me great joy each time I see a project like this because it is the best type of recycling, using fewer resources and less energy than other forms to create something that is affordable and useful. Thank you for posting your video, it is one of those things I am willing to watch on youtube

very impressed by how much work you put into this video! very well done especially with the music and the nice collection of shots! Already looking forward to april!

Great deck!

I like how they wrapped the recycled plastic in single use plastic to protect it in shipping.

Ah end of season 1.... hence the long waiving goodbye. Liked this episode. The end result of the roof was above expectations. It blends in with environment rather well. Wonder if it is rainproof, but I trust you will tell me. Have a good winter. And maybe post some pictures once in a while so we won't forget you ;-) Take care!

Excellent work guys. Quite inspiring, there is hope for the future with people like you around.

Amazing progress Dave. I like your passion and results of work. Most people only talk about their dreams but you and other guys from Precious Plastic make dreams real. Wish you all the best in winter and I am looking for updates in season 2. :)

The structure for the kitchen looks great and the use of recycled plastic is fantastic. We have an abundance of plastic so show casing ways to use recycled plastic is brilliant. The drone showed just how good the colours look and blend with the environment - great work.

Fabulous!! I want a sheet press. I’ll miss you all. But that just makes April something to look forward to !!

Nice job on the wooden covered terrace, I am sure it is going to be really useful for you guys. Thanks for all the great content you brought us this first season. It is really inspiring to see people experiment alternative ways of living and i love seeing what you already have done to the place. Looking forward to see the evolutions of the project next year. Have a great youtube break and hope winter won't be to harsh down there.

Looking forward to season 2, going to miss seeing your videos until then. They are great inspiration for me to keep going on projects we are working on as well. Albeit much smaller projects like adding to my garden.

When you are up there , you should tidy up and secure the wires on solar panel. The movement just by wind , will damage wire and connections. Don't be chilling and wasting away in winter, it's called living not a holiday

Have a pleasant winter rest. You've surely earned it for all your efforts on the new place. Glad someone is making an effort to utilize what so many would just cast out to have buried in dumps. Please take care.

I have used PET to make Green Houses, but they usually last about a year before start breaking. The UV light make it brittle over time. The sheets i use were 0,1mm thick. I belive the tiles that you made will last a long time before breaking. Other option could be painting the roof white, cause titanium dioxe (the white pigment) is one of the best at blocking UV

This is something I've been thinking about for years now as a pretty valuable output for Precious Plastics in areas where the building norm is cinderblock with iron / asbestos sheet rooves. Or, as I like to call them; ovens. Would it be possible to make them corrugated with a certain amount of polystyrene, so they're both rain channeling and to some degree insulative? Also, some half decent white outdoor paint should help resolve issues of UV, sealing, and heat buildup.

I couldn't resist waving back!

You guys are just so hardworking and great and sweet. I’ll miss your videos. 😁 Enjoy the pause!!! ♥️ See you in April

I wish we could have seen how you secured the plastic panels to the battens and if sealed the joints. But well done on season 1 and another great addition to project Kamp! Sad to not be seeing you guys for a while, however am looking forward to the next season 🙂 Have a merry Christmas and a wonderful new year! Stay safe 👌

Coming from experience with it not working, at least on the area you would walk out from onto the porch, place some Cross bracing with your off cuts. It will help distribute the weight along more boards and make them last longer.

Thank you folks a lot for what you are doing and for sharing your work and materials with you tube DIY folks. It means a lot to me, especially to see the innovation which will help people and the planet. My grandson just graduated with a double degree and one degree was in materials engineering. I appreciate what you are doing and the OPEN SOURCE info and business you told us about.

I’m so happy I found this channel before they taking a break! 🙏🏻

Cool roof!

Checkout container twist locks, they would have made a really simple mechanism for anchoring to the top of the container. Smaller plastic panels could be used like shingles.

Very Clever! This Recycled Plastic Roof is very good, because it's cheap and easy too made

Yay! I very much enjoyed season one, became part of my bed time routine for the last two weeks :) Great to watch you all work with smiles on your faces, making stuff happen and putting it together with humour and great footage too! Thank you for sharing!

I expect that the plastic will break down from the uv sun light. When ever I leave something plastic outside that wasn't made to be left out side it become brittle and cracks and breaks. Maybe if yoy recycled only plastic plant pots it will last longer.

Those look great! Let us know how much heat these absorb being mostly dark colors. If it ends up being too much I assume you can sand and just paint the roof a reflective color! Could help with reflecting more sun on the solar panels as well!

I love that you try things out and see for yourself how things hold up over time! Way to go, so inspiring to see how plastics can be recycled into real products!

Ur guys is world Hero, u saved our world from wasted plastic...love

Those sheets look NICE! Do you use any sealant in between the sheets, or do you just accept some leakage when it rains?

HDPE is uv resistant, so I hope it will last a long time. Precious plastic should think about making roof tiles like the ones you took off the ruins. Would be easier to install watertight and could be thinner and less weight overall. Or a less attractive/easiest to install 〰️ tin type panel.

How fabulous! Definitely want to do something like this on our land here in Portugal. Gonna miss the videos, who else waved back at the end? :)

I can smell the platic already sun and plastic is a good combination plus you living on it 24/7

look out for some real cheap solar panels. some used can be just a couple €... very easy to make roofs out of them and electricity is a bonus

I wonder how it would work as a floor?

The aroma of Rosemary while jamming breakfast club intro samples 👌

Loved this project from start to finish. Awesome work and energy, guys!

"sturdy"..... when one notches out a wood beam it reduces its sturdiness, it is close to building with wood members the width of the member minus the size of the notch so why not build and spend on smaller width wood members? .... if a "structural" member that is supposed to be used whole is cut and an inspector is required the inspector would not pass the inspection and the wood would be "wasted" and to pass inspection the cut members would have to be replaced and the money + wo/man hours uneconnomically spent .... I understand the project, very leaky roof, no inspection, looks great, not nominal members - the members have been weakened innocently in shame, excellent reprocessing of waste plastic, great lookin panels, thanks for sharing it free to me and, for allowing opinions that make us all greater, learn appreciate your health and life better: I have known of people dying from hitting their heads on the ground through a dizzy fall worse from a ladder like the one you placed on hazardous footings and while carrying a killer wood beam on top of your head, yeah I understand single, childless, young with the whole life to live ahead smh..... ladders once you place weight on it the legs dangeroulsy slip open a bit, be safer, you might want to add more cool videos with no broken vertebrae ; )

Solar roof would have been better than plastic

Thanks for season one! Already looking forward to season 2 :) Enjoy winding down, cocooning and have a lovely winter!

Some great "farm gymnastics" of all types going on here! Great work on the ingenious fixes ! We've been following you from day 1 with Precious Plastic and love the evolution of yoru vision and community! Much love from Canada! 💚

Cheap plastic directly facing the sun??!! This won’t work for long.

Loving the down to earth, almost how-to video's ! Your truly honest and simple explanations make it motivating for anyone (like myself) to go out and give it a try! I will be building a deck out with the help of your video , thank you. Keep up the great work.

Super cool. Have a good winter.

Well this was backwards and weird. Using plastic for the weather and sun exposure, having joints that will leak(unless siliconed), and having wood where you walk. Why didn't you go for a all or nothing approach, with plastic flooring too? If you're going to pollute the place with micro-plastics might as well examine flooring viability too.

Good luck for the winter guys, enjoy

The end result is really impressive and cool.

Thank you guys. Have a great winter break/ planning

Great job guys have a good winter.

I love the way it blends into the landscape. Great work as always. See you in april

Cool . I wish that there were places like this all over the world that recycle plastic.

Really love the prospects to solving the major problem of the world, which is waste management. It actually makes the applications(road construction, building, etc) cheaper. The only issue I see is the adoption of it in Africa. I mean making use of the waste effectively. I know there are so many organizations trying to solve that but it needs to be encouraged more.

This is beautiful you all executed this with ease! Well done!

to bad this is the last one, great work and inspiring. happy winter and til next year!!

You guys are my favorite humans! Much love, Dryden

I really like those plastic tiles, they are so cool. Now all that is left is to set up eves troughs to catch the rainwater into a barrel or something so you will have a secondary source of water for emergencies

It looks like a little cabin! I love it! Can't wait to see everything that gets accomplished! Take care, have fun and be safe. See you in April!!!!!

Great work and progress as always at the Project Kamp, but the sweetest thing nobody ever mentions: every time he says "cutted" when he actually should use the past participle "cut". I don't know why but it makes my heart melt. Hope they're having a great winter down there. They deserve it.

I'm so sad!! I'm going to have to rewatch all your old videos to get my Rita fix!! LOL I'm so in love with her!!

Made a note in my calendar since I do not trust YT to bring up your videos after such a long period af abstinence. Thx, have a nice winter and see you in spring!

If you could see me you would see that I am waving back to you. Love what you all have done to the place. Happy Winter.(still waving, still waving)(ok now I have stopped waving)

Super cool the plastic use, bravo!

You guys, I so get you need a break from youtube! Enjoy it and be happy!

Looking forward to more of your videos. Your ideas are very cutting edge and I am interested in seeing how some of them function in the long term. espcially the various uses for recycled plastics.

Love what you did and I'm sure when it's raining and cold, the roof will really be appreciated. Looking forward to more videos in April! Enjoy your time off! e