Vinyl LPs on shed roof puts new spin on old records
A man has covered a shed roof with charity shop vinyl records because "it was a lot cheaper than tiles". Mike Johnson came up with the idea after the bitumen on his friend's roof was constantly shredded by the wind. "It was a lightbulb moment," he said.....
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"A Nana Mouskouri record is among the 200 unwanted vinyl records from the town's charity shops "
Indeed.
I think I have more CD smostly CDRs and DVDs I could do that with and they'd reflect the suns light helping to reduce global warming, not sure how good they'd be in time regarding leaks.
There has just got to be a Drifters LP up there.
G.Harman
I can't think why people use roofing felt, when they can just spend months nailing LPs on instead.
:)
Englebert Humperdinck?
Bay city Rollers?
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Months? you dont have to play them first!
If Sean Connery did the same thing would he have used shingles?
Wonder how they'll sand up to direct sunlight? They melt at a pretty low temperature.
Surely Burt Bacharach?
? Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Maybe they'll fuse togther? Not sure what the UV will do to them though.
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Up on the roof?
Seems a bit of a waste of good vinyl. I wonder how stable it would be though as records warp easily in hot places. brain
Coincides nicely with yet another vinyl 'revival' - it's Record Store Day today. They had a true nutcase on R4 Saturday Live today. Reminded me of several on here. He really seemed to believe the rubbish he was talking.
From the look of it he's already used a heat gun to fold the records over the ridge and at the edges so I don't think a bit of warping is going to show much. ;-)
Tim
Brian Gaff wrote:
Wasn't that Carly Simon?
No, she sang about the wind vane.
No, she sang up on the roof.
Whoosh.
Fraid you got me there. Still way over my head sir.
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