Hey everyone. I made a 6 foot wall 6 foot stretch honeycomb cardboard hexayurt for last years burning man because of the bi-filament / insulation fire risk discussed previously. I made an 8 foot Insulation based hexayurt at my last Burning Man.
On the Honeycomb Hexayurt I tested several things and some were successes and some were failures. Fire rated NASA space paint was the biggest failure as once it was painted onto the cardboard nothing would stick to it. I had tape peeling off in a control environment of my living room, quite a disappointment. It also warped the cardboard slightly. I ended up turning my painted roof inside out as I needed a roof that I could tape down. Having the paint on the underside did little to stop the thermal baking in the sun. The inside of the hexayurt was warmer than the insulation based previous BM version. Having a cooling system would have worked wonders as there is not much room too cool in a 6' Stretch with 6 foot walls. This leads me to my biggest success and that is Reinforced paper tape. It is cheap and easy to work with and is fairly strong. I used it to tape all my walls together and the roof. It requires water to activate it and you attach it to the honeycomb cardboard walls and in a few minutes it is dry with a very strong bond. I had an almost completely tapes hexayurt when I arrived on the Playa. I put a few pieces of bi-filament tape on the seams and I was ready to go. I knew that paper tape and the playa wouldn't mix so I didn't even try that craziness for holding it down. One thing I thought might work was creating some type of rope channel using plastic somehow to pre-rope the hexayurt like they do with tents. I wanted to use no bidirectional filament tape and also paint the outside with the space age white paint then have artists paint on top of that surface. I am sure that structurally there is some way to do it. The other idea I had was to use a big roll of ace bandage to wrap around the center ring for stability. I hope to see you all on the Playa again this year, we will see if I can make it. Rich Shumaker On Jun 16, 12:01 am, David Bach-y-Rita <[email protected]> wrote: > One small measure that might help fireproof yurts is to smear silicon > glue over exposed edges or anywhere that is not covered by foil/tape. > I've never heard anyone talk about this idea, but it seems promising >p to me. Silicon glue is relatively cheap, non-toxic, and lasting. > However, it couldn't be applied under tape because it creates a > surface that resists adhesion. > > On Jun 15, 11:21 am, Spiral Syzygy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The current hexayurt design with foam is cool, for numerous reasons, > > fire safety is not one of them. I can't imagine it being too much > > worse than being in a flaming tent, except for maybe a false sense of > > security with internal fires. It is hard to ignite the foam with a > > flame and it doesn't spread much, but I only performed open-air fire > > tests. If what Chris says is true, we should consider other materials > > if possible or do as we have done in the past and maintaned a strick > > to smoking/open flame rule in the hexayurt. > > > Spiral > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Chris Phoenix <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The fire risk of foam is not so much from flame sources outside the > > > hexayurt, as from flame in an enclosed foam-faced space. Apparently the > > > foam > > > is such a good insulator that the space will "flash over" in just a few > > > seconds. > > > > Open-air tests of foam flammability do not show what will happen in an > > > enclosed foam-faced space. They used to think foam was fireproof. Then > > > they > > > lost a few buildings. > > > > Foil-faced foam shouldn't have quite the same problem, though I'd still > > > worry about the reflected heat accelerating the combustion of any > > > flammable > > > stuff inside. > > > > Chris > > > > On Jun 15, 2010 9:23 AM, "Spiral Syzygy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yay, I Iove when people build hexayurts in my back yard, and I don't > > > have to do anything but watch and heckle. It looks great guys. I can't > > > wait to see it on the ranch. > > > > Spiral > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Kathleen Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> We've just prefabbed a S... > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "hexayurt" group. > > > To post ... > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "hexayurt" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
