hmmm.... if you made a hexayurt frame and wrapped it with plastic you'd have a greenhouse. no insulation, but quick and easy, and wind and water tight. for doors and windows you could place a frame where you want it and cut the center of the plastic and fold it back over the frame and tape it there. then figure out how to close the openings (another fitting frame that you plastic wrap maybe). throw tarps over it for light shading, and insulating blankets over or hung inside? maybe a great circle wrapping pattern works well.
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Cheese <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
