Good point on fire - in particular, beware carbon monoxide build up inside. Hexayurts are far more air tight than tents!
Two tips. 1) The tape at the bottom of each roof panel has to be done *really* carefully. Rain will run down the roof panel, hit the tape, and then either go up-and-over and harmlessly off the side of your hexayurt, or it will hit the tape and go under, and then eventually into the hexayurt or just soak the foam. You might wind up using a layer of something like gorilla tape on the interface between the filament tape and the roof just to protect that seam - the rubbery glues form a more comprehensive bond than the 2) You'll want to insulate the floor. You've got a lot of insulation between you and the air, but the ground sucks heat a lot more effectively than the air does, and usually you would only have a plastic tarp between you and the ground. That's great for Burning Man, it significantly helps the hexayurt stay cool - if you've ever been in a hexayurt with a carpet floor you'll really feel the difference. But for your applications, you'll want a covering. Softiles http://www.softtiles.com/ and equivalent products are great: a bit expensive, but great. Carpet, once it is wet, won't really insulate at all, and that's Damned Inconvenient. Tarp, then carpet, then tarp would probably work reasonably well, although the top tarp will tend to wear fast. Hope that helps, V> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Pichard Kempo Karate < [email protected]> wrote: > my main concern will be fire or any flame for that matter :D > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Christie Chronister > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All: > > I'm fairly new here so I apologize if this topic has been addressed > before. > > I'm looking into building a pentayurt for a winter burn, and then > re-using > > it for some other non-playa burns... So not concerned about too much > heat or > > dust. Snow and rain are probably my first concern. > > > > 1. Is there anything I should do differently? For instance I would like > to > > keep heat IN not keep it out. Or at least make it easier to do so while > > still allowing for some cooling if used in the summer in mild conditions. > > > > 2. Is there anything I can skip to save money? i.e. since I'm not > worried > > about direct sunlight/excessive heat, can I use a different type of tape > > that is cheaper/widely available? > > > > Thanks in advance for your advice! > > > > Christie > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > -- > -- Fabien (sent from my phone) > [email protected] > http://www.kempowa.com/PugetSound > 425-985-8613 > > -- > 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. > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://bit.ly/gupta_arc <http://bit.ly/gupta_arc%20>- the Gupta State Failure Management Archive http://bit.ly/gupta_ark - or see it directly on Archive.org 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 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.
