I totally agree with Vinay on the fire risk. There is some pressure on manufacturers to decrease fire risk. That seems most likely to show up on newer-type panels but until it does and creates a much higher level of safety, we all need to be very aware. Smoke detectors are, as Vinay says, the least we should do. We typically discuss fire safety with people considering buying yurts from us. That amounts to telling them no fire (or anything else that could start one) in the yurt, period.
We are very concerned with moop. It sounds like we have the greatest exposure related to accidents - which are mostly transit or assembly/disassembly related. It looks like the single worst problem is leaving - often tired burners trying to get everything together under circumstances that may have shifted - who's carrying what, leaving when, driving which vehicle... and stuff just gets jammed in/on and you hope it sticks. While yurts flying off on the road aren't the only thing, it happens too often and it's a specific target. The Hexayurt community generally, and people like me and others who are selling yurts in particular need to emphasize good transport practice. We are also hoping to lower moop risk by simplifying assembly and disassembly and possibly creating specialized shipping containment devices to make optimal handling easier. ~ Dan On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hey folks, > > I'd like us to up our game for this year's burn - get better at dealing > with moop, and get *at least* smoke detectors in every hexayurt. I don't > want people building in non-fire-safe materials, but I acknowledge that > people are going to buy whatever they can find sometimes - fixing that is > going to be a real challenge. But we *certainly* can get a smoke detector > in every hexayurt, right? > > The moop problem seems partly best practices ("don't paint your hexayurt > with house paint, lest you wind up mooping with tweezers, as Jake von Slatt > mentioned) > > But can we collect that stuff up in one place? Can we disseminate it, and > actually change (particularly new builder) behavior? > > This is really important to me: I don't want to see the little shed become > a pain in the ass for DWP picking up after us, that just seems completely > the wrong direction. To sort that out, we need some new ideas. > > What are you thinking? > > V> > > -- > *Vinay Gupta * * [email protected] <[email protected]> * > *http://re.silience.com* <http://re.silience.com> > *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* > UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was > in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus > > -- > 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.
