you can also use 3/8 wall board on the inside for a "finished" look. taped with wall board tape and smoothed out and painted, looks like a "real" house!!!!
you may also want to think about "ferro concrete" which is using a wire mesh, and smushing the concrete into the matrix with your hand, i've built very strong cisterns, a catfish pond and a garage with this. It is awesome cheap and easy On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < [email protected]> wrote: > I've heard great things about this approach. If I can't swing the > polyiso/concrete approach for my hexayurt this winter, I'll probably > wind up doing it that way! > > V> > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Cody Firestone <[email protected]> wrote: > > excellent idea. I've been advocating a SIS or "stress skin panel" > versoin > > of the hexayurt for a while. > > a SIS is a plywood sandwich, with insulation in the middle. I've used > 1/4 > > inch plywood, which is very cheap, and a thicker 3 inch foam insul panel, > > so.... > > Ive used this with barns and small cabins and it is gREAT! Yes, you need > a > > little more support, but it is wonderful > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Cheese <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Here is a photo of the Wood paneling sticker from Home Depot, I > >> bought: > >> > >> > https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B97FoBDcf2zSOWZjZjlkZmYtMmYzMi00ZTkwLThiZTItMDFlN2NkYjI3YTc1&hl=en_US&authkey=CNzbo70F > >> > >> I went the cheaper route and used liquid nails. I got about 3-3.5 > >> panels per tube by placing a quarter size drop every 12" or so. The > >> 3/4" Thermasheath and the 1/4" wood panel make for a nice insulated, > >> durable panel. Obviously it does add weight, I only did this for the > >> walls. This also allows you to have brackets joining the Hexayurt > >> walls together from the inside and only taping for dust and weather on > >> the outside allowing you to use a much cheaper tape like the FlexFix. > >> > >> -- > >> 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. > > > > > > -- > Vinay Gupta > Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest > > http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering > http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision > > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an > invincible summer" - Albert Camus > > Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt > UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 > > -- > 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.
