Hi Eric & welcome to YurtWorld ;-) Yeah, most paint would present some kind of problem, the most common of which is flaking off and creating moop. The other problem is reducing the heat reflectivity of the "silver." If you really, really wanted to mess with it though, there are house-type paints with "nano-stuff" t(usually ends up being titanium oxide particles) that claim to be very highly reflective of IRish wavelengths responsible for heat gain... and yet come in colors. Getting house-type paint to stick to aluminum foil is a neat trick though - usually it's some chemical surface prep and special primer... a pretty fussy deal.
If decoration is what you're after, there are other approaches - such as fabric drapes, flags... markers... try graffiti with special spray paint (with some surface prep/priming) in limited, more vertical, northerly surfaces. Hope that gets you thinking... and experimenting. I'm trying to get a house in Vallejo where I'll be building yurts. Depending on how much space there is, we might be able to talk about your setting one up for a weekend. ~ Dan On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 3:57 PM, eric conner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Newbie here, 2015 will be my first burn. I stumbled across a thread on > hexayurts and decided that I have to build one. > > A couple of questions: > > 1) Can anyone recommend a good space to test a build in the Bay Area? > Ideally I'd be able to erect the yurt and stay in it over a weekend as a > test run. I live in a tiny apartment in the city and have no space to > experiment with nearby. > > 2) What is the consensus on painting one of these? I know paint will > reduce the heat resistance of the insulation by some amount, but are there > other practical risks to painting? And if not, what kind of paint would be > ideal? > > Thanks! > -Eric > > -- > 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.
