Phil, This post is from a few years ago and your photo album is no longer publicly available. Would you mind reposting them? We're building six of the stretch yurts this year and want to use some of your tricks. Thanks!
On Monday, September 19, 2011 9:36:22 AM UTC-7, Phil Dirt wrote: > > Now that I've put the pics in an album, the options for viewing have > changed. If you want to enlarge a photo, select "View Full Resolution" > under Image Options. Then the cursor becomes a magnifying glass for > zooming in. > > The adhesive-backed strip foam insulation isn't cheap, but I agree > that it's probably cheaper than tape. And to seal the floor with tape > you really need a roll that is 3" wide and a lot of patience. Any > contaminants, such as playa dust, will compromise or ruin the tape's > ability to stick to the foam or tarp. I used Swiffer Sweeper cloths to > wipe down the areas I needed to tape, but still the conditions were > less than ideal. All we're trying to do here is form a seal between > the wall and tarp floor to keep out dust, which can be accomplished by > tape or compressed foam. The advantage I see with the foam is that the > seal is already finished when the hexayurt has been assembled, so one > less chore to do. > > If you look at the end walls you'll see that I've added four straps > that are bolted through the foam board and held in place with fender > washers. This makes it easy to assemble the walls in an open space > (like the street) then carry the hexayurt to where you want to place > it. The door is reinforced by a sheet metal frame that stiffens the > 2x2' wall section that has been cut out and provides a solid backing > for the hinges and hasp. The inside edge of the plywood door is lined > with adhesive-backed foam tape to create a tight seal against the > sheet metal frame when the door is closed. Not shown is the door sill, > which was made from a 2' length of 2x2" doug fir sandwiched between > two sections of 32" 1/8x1" flat bar. This stiffens the wall at the > bottom of the door and can be removed for sweeping out dust and dirt. > The sill is removed for transport. > > The window/vent you see in one of the ceiling panels is paired with > another at the opposite end of the yurt and mounted low on the wall. > This was done to encourage air to enter by the lower vent and exit > through the ceiling panel. The furnace filters let in enough light to > see what I'm doing during the day. I hinged the cutout pieces of foam > on the inside so I could close the vents if I wanted to sleep during > the day. I was also planning to test a passive evaporative cooling > system that would consist of a plastic dish mounted above the vent on > the lower panel. The dish would hold water that would wick down strips > of terry cloth (an old towel) hung in front of the lower vent. As the > water evaporates from the incoming air flow it would cool the yurt > before exiting through the ceiling panel. This experiment never got > completed because I got tired of fiddling with the yurt and wanted to > see the flaming hula hoop parade > > Phil Dirt. > > On Sep 18, 11:04 am, Alejandro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing the pics Phil. Looks great! > > > > The strip foam insulation sounds like a great idea. I imagine tape is > > more expensive than strip foam. Worse yet, when I had to dismantle my > > h13, in detaching the tarp from the outside walls, pulling the tape > > off also pulled off the foil from the outside of the panels, and that > > really sucks. So I have to cover all that damage with foil tape I > > guess. > > > > I was curious about your window, any reason why you put it in the > > ceiling panel, and not in one of the wall panels? > > > > -Alejandro > > > > On Sep 18, 9:56 am, Phil Dirt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's an album of photos that might be useful. You can click on any > > > image to enlarge it, then click again to zoom inhttp:// > phildirt.imgur.com/all/ > > > > > On Sep 18, 9:01 am, Phil Dirt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > OK, try this:http://imgur.com/0PyA6 > > > > or this: > > > > <a href="http://imgur.com/0PyA6"; title="Hosted by imgur.com">http:// > > > > > imgur.com/0PyA6</a> > > > > or this: > > > > <img src="http://i.imgur.com/0PyA6.jpg"; title="Hosted by imgur.com" > / > > > > > > or this: > > > > <a href="http://imgur.com/0PyA6"; title="Hosted by imgur.com">http:// > > > > > imgur.com/0PyA6</a> > > > > or maybe:http://i.imgur.com/0PyA6.jpg > > > > and possibly:http://imgur.com/0PyA6 > > > > Any of these ought to work. -- 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/d/optout.
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