Rich- You probably remember me as the guy who came to your place in Oakland to pick up my portion of the Hexacomb order. I used the Hexacomb cardboard both last year and this year, to pretty good effect. However... you missed this year, and specifically missed a significant rain storm on Monday. Turns out cardboard isn't the best in rain... who knew? As much as I love the Hexacomb, for application on the playa, and especially off playa, a solid waterproofing strategy needs to be implemented. Because of that I may not use it again, at least in isolation. This year I was half way through tarping my structure when the rain hit, and got thoroughly soaked. Monday night was miserable, and the panels were a partial loss.... they fared ok the rest of the week, but they weren't worth taking home and reusing. Luckily Hexacomb burns quite nicely, so we had a little memorial service for our home and chucked it into a burn platform at the end of the week. Cathartic at least! So that's my two cents on the efficacy of Hexacomb as a building material... even on the "it never rains" playa. BTW... I wasn't using tape at all. I built a very light wooden frame and used screws and washers to attach the panels to the frame. Works quite well. I may try to go even lighter next year by having just a few blocks cut at angles that serve as screw attachment points between panels... I think a bit like the plywood Hexayurts that Vinay demonstrated in London. And Rich... don't worry about missing BM this year... no fun at all. Too dusty, too hot, the art and music were a bore. Nothing missed at all. ;)
Ian On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Richard Shumaker <[email protected]>wrote: > I missed BM this year and that is a sore topic as I am sure most > understand. 2 years ago I built a 6 foot high 6 foot stretch with honeycomb > cardboard and my primary tape pre-playa was low cost heavy duty paper tape. > All folding seams and all edges. The roof was one continuous piece and the > walls were 2 parts. > > This year I want to use white walled cardboard and tape to avoid thermal > transfer. I am also looking at beehiving or hex-papering several hex's > together. > > Has anyone done there tie downs for zero clearance meaning no guide wire > trips. Also has anyone overlapped hexs and removed redundant walls? > > I wanted to write up the success and failures of my honeycomb yurt but I > never had the time. Oh and bi-direcional tape on both my previous yurts was > shot by the end of the week. I am considering the tie down option. Has > anyone ever used medical wrap that is re-uasble and stretchy for the > connection of roof and walls. Three wraps around stretched tight with it > anchored to itself and security taped should probably work. > > One idea I don't remember reading here on this set of ideas that I saw 2 > years ago is tie downs. Instead of rope you use tie downs that you would > for your car for your corners. It make tightening daily easier too. > > Rich Shumaker > > -- > 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]<hexayurt%[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.
