Most interested in feedback on mold issue. Robert, have you had it tested?
On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Robert Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:05:15 AM UTC+2, Vinay Gupta wrote: > > How was your burn? > > Did we learn anything interesting and worth documenting about hexayurts, > coolers etc? > > It was the fourth year (I think? Possibly fifth?) for my semi-folding 6' > stretch. The wall and roof hinges are still good despite no protective foil > tape, but a big strip of the flashing I made around the door flew away at one > point. It acquired a few dings in storage, but they were all patched easily > enough with bidi. > > My only real concern is what I think is mould. There are little grainy black > patches all over the foil, with "matching" black patches where those would > fold against the adjacent wall during storage. I'm not sure how this happened > though--it's been stored in a garage in Las Vegas all its life so far, which > is a pretty dry climate. Previous to this year the only time it's been > anywhere near moisture was the sixteen spots of rain we got on-Playa in 2012. > A little wipe at one of the black patches with isopropyl alcohol left a > black sooty smudge on the kitchen paper, but so did a wipe over a clean patch > of foil, so that's kind of inconclusive. > > No respiratory complaints evident from myself or my yurtmate, should I be > worried? Is it worth trying hard to remove next year? With what? > > Cheers, Robert. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
