Elliot - You can do it in 3 pieces quite nicely and will make life much more simple on the playa.
Essentially tape your roof panels into 2 sections - so 6 roof pieces per section. These will open like an accordion and also fit nicely together on top of your base (4x8) boards so you have a nice square unit you can bundle up. Then, all you have to do is combine those two sections and you have a roof. Its simple. You'll end up using slightly more tape (because you'll still tape the roof a lot on the playa) but you'll save yourself a pretty sizable headache if you end up trying to put this up in wind...and it sounds very windy this year! GOod luck. -susan On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:30 PM, David Kelso <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes sense. I guess I was expecting the unbroken span of tape to be > more important than where it was positioned. > > I'm guessing if I put on the corner anchors first, and run them all > the way to the top, then the end anchors (which is an unbroken span of > tape) will go over the top of the others, keeping them in place. > > Another shitty photoshop attached. Each color is a different piece of tape. > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Thomas Tempelmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What about passing tape over flat edges at the top? (e.g. using one in > >> the center of the long roof panel, instead of one on each side). Will > >> the compression cause problems? If not, that would let me get away > >> with 4 anchors. Is 4 enough to hold down a stretch? > > > > I did run the 6" tape over the corners, and it worked well. I had a 8" > > tall stretch yurt made of hexacomb board. For stability, I believe > > that pulling down the corners is where it's most efficient. > > Of course, that way the tape can't run all the way from one side to > > the other, but that did not matter. The special 6" tape from > > goodbuyguys was holding perfectly even if only run from the top the > > the edge down. > > > > Thomas > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hexayurt%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<hexayurt%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
