This could work really well with canvas if you sewed rope into pockets that followed the edges on the roof and around the tension band area, then tied down from each of the six points by exposing 4" of rope at each vertex. You would have to make sure you securely fastened the horizontal rope band to the sections that went over the top.
Extra out of band labor, but no more taping worries. You could use 3" Gorilla tape if you beveled the edges, no? Base could be secured with grommeting and then small stakes directly through the grommets. Those 8" galvanized landscaping nails should work. Better with big washers. On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < [email protected]> wrote: > Aspen, eh, Scott? I used to live up there, really good years! > > I believe the first hexayurt ever built is in a storage shed at Rocky > Mountain Institute in Snowmass! > > Two bits of insight. > > 1> All the plastic sheet type materials I can find are subject to sun > damage over time. That may not be true for high spec materials like > sailcloth, but there's no cheap tarp-like stuff I know of that doesn't rot > pretty fast in the sun.. > > 2> However, that's a constraint for disaster relief shelters which are > going to be outside for years and have to be cheap, and should not *at all* > inhibit the search for new ways of doing this. As we all know, years of > taping and untaping hexayurts on the playa is an expensive pain in the ass, > and there's gotta be a better way now that we've got the basics down. > > Word of warning: the hexayurt tape is *insanely* strong. I'm seeing more > use of folding hexayurts etc. which don't have the very useful "12 unbroken > ground-to-peak-to-ground straps of hexayurt tape" property which keeps > hexayurts on the ground *no matter what*. I do worry a bit about some of the > new approaches in terms of tiedowns. Also possibly my original approach is > over-engineered by a factor of six, so... > > Just be aware of how strong the tape is when looking for replacements. > > Vinay > > -- > 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.
