I am planning on anchoring two posts and connecting them at the top for a door frame to secure a lockable door. I think I can wrap around the post and back the way I came and the same for the other side. I am not planning on having any actual windows, but I am sure you could just wrap over to allow light to pass through. For day time light I think I am going to use water bottles in the roof from a video I found online. It's pretty cool and just about free. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6e0_1211748007
Feb 13, 12:20 am, kenwinston caine <[email protected]> wrote: > RE: Stretch wrap: > > Very interesting idea, Cheese! > > I like that it adds tremendous tensile strength to the structure, as > well as waterproofing, if layered correctly, from bottom, up -- > shingling, as you described. > > Am wondering what its characteristics are in direct sunlight and 100- > plus-degree heat? Does it expand and sag? Yellow? Melt? How long until > it weathers and deteriorates? > > I've used it indoors for packing and securing things and it IS easy to > use and is strong. And I think the longest I've ever left anything > wrapped in it is about six weeks and it certainly held up to that with > no problems. > > Have not found it to be reusable, though. It stretches and wrinkles as > you wrap it on something. And it adheres to itself. You CAN unwrap it. > But that's slow going and it does not tend to unwrap (or wrap for that > matter) as a neat, flat sheet at full width. > > But at $15 per 1500-foot roll (was that what it was, in lots of four?) > I doubt many of us would want to take all the time and effort required > to try to unwrap and re-roll it. It cuts easily, under tension, with > box cutter type knives.So take down would be super fast if you just > cut it at a couple seams where boards meet. > > But then you have what I think is unrecycleable plastic waste. My > landfill doesn't accept that kind of plastic for recycling. Maybe > there is some place that does. And maybe there is some innovative use > for the waste material so that it can be reused somehow, even if it is > cut loose from the hexayurt. > > A problem I do see: > > Windows and door locations. How do you cut those out and maintain the > integrity of the wrap? > > Best, > kwc -- 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.
