David, You can't purchase the tape off the shelf, as far as I am aware... it is industrial bifilament packing tape. The sheets are also hard to find, especially in the bay, this time of year. People have purchased them at Home Depots and Lowes, but you may have to go to a lot of them to find it, if it exists at all, or go out into the east or south, away from the city.
Also, what are you going to do with it when you fly back? You've definitely set yourself a challenge here... ;) If you really want to do this... I would order tape online IMMEDIATELY and have it shipped to someone in SF area for you that can hold it. This place might do: http://hexayurttape.com/ Secondly, I would start calling hardware stores in the bay area and asking them if they have R-Max or Tuff-R 1" Polyisocyanate board. It HAS to be polyisocyanate. If they don't know what that is, tell them it is "very stiff. Much stiffer than normal insulation board. It doesn't bend at all". The moment they say "yes, we do", make sure they have enough panels in stock, and offer to pay them right then and there for them, and hold them for you when you come out. Lastly, if you are not going to take the HY with you when you leave, find someone at the burn who wants it, and can take it back with them. Or store it in Reno in a small storage locker for next year. Also remember you'll need to secure it down to the playa with rope and rebar. So get a big roll of rope (they have a lot of that at hardware stores cheap), and 4-6 pieces of 3 foot long, 3/8" rebar. you take two pieces of water pipe, put one over the rebar, and let 6" peek out the top. then put your foot down on it, put the other pipe over that 6" and bend it into a hook. Hope this helps! On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:34 AM, David Levine <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Jason, i am flying in from Australia on the 20th and staying in > sanfrancisco untill the 23rd when heading out to reno. > I am wanting to build a HY and need a little advice as to where i can get > the sheeting from and the tape. > > I have found home depot has it at $20 sheet of 1inch. Is that a good > price? Is there better or cheaper or? > The tape i have not been able to find. I need a shit load of 6" and half > as much 3". Where can the tape be purchased off the shelf? > > Lastly.... i am trying to contact a place called the generator in reno > where it MAY be possible to prefabricate it BUT it is NOT a sure thing. > So, any help or ideas as to where i can prefab the HY in Sanfan would be > greatly appreciated. > > Dave > > > On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 06:27:15 UTC+10, Jason Adams wrote: >> >> Hey looking to build a hexayurt for a living space at my burn (I bought >> my first one). >> And thought I'd check if anyone is creating them, or doing test builds in >> the Bay Area. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
