Thank you, Chris. I sincerely hope this will be a painless, productive and fruitful process for everybody.
I think you'll love how tough this stuff is: have you seen samples? I used to have a box of six inch squares Dow sent me, and they were mind-blowingly tough. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help (hexayurt home page?) Good luck! V> -- *Vinay Gupta * * hexay...@gmail.com <hexay...@gmail.com> * *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 On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Chris Jurney <jur...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks like Dow still makes Thermax HD 1" panels, but it's special > order. I found non-SF companies that would place the order with Dow, but > I'm still looking for one that will do it locally. Once I find a place, > I'm open for taking additional sheet orders from people who want panels. > It's a lot of money to float, so if that happens, I'll be looking for > money up front, not after, and I'm thinking we will order a spare panel per > yurt to avoid problems with sheet damage, so you'd have to be up for that. > We will have a place to store the sheets once they arrive, but I'd prefer > if people joining the buy picked them up the day we accept delivery to > avoid lots of trips. > > The panels will be somewhere between $52-56 each plus freight (no estimate > yet), so top end around $7-800 per yurt for an H12's worth of panels. Once > I have a final price, if you want to meet me and shake my hand before > giving me a bunch of money, that's fine by me. I work in SOMA, so if > you're close we can figure something out. > > I'll update when I have more details. > > > On Saturday, February 8, 2014 5:00:45 PM UTC-8, Mark Clark wrote: > >> I will commit to a share. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Feb 8, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Kevin Fischer <kfis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm definitely interested in participating in such a group buy >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Chris Jurney <jur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> If other people are in the bay area and want to group buy Thermax HD, >>> I'd be up for that. We're organizing construction on a new theme camp that >>> will need around 80 sheets for our yurt village, so we shouldn't have a >>> problem with a minimum order. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:30:13 PM UTC-8, lance95 wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 23:34:13 -0800 >>>> Subject: Re: [hexayurt] Bulk purchasing Thermax HD or other fire-safe >>>> hexayurt materials >>>> From: never...@gmail.com >>>> To: hexa...@googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> >>>> Sound like a plan. Any ballpark idea of what the minimum order would be? >>>> On Feb 1, 2014 8:13 AM, "Richard Ginn" <richa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Let's make a list of all the suppliers and what their minimum order is, >>>> and what price breaks we would get at what volumes of purchase. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) >>>> <hexa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> They're tougher. >>>> >>>> They're not that much more expensive. >>>> >>>> They won't catch fire. >>>> >>>> I feel like this would be a great year to actually fix the supply chain >>>> issues around Thermax HD (or equivalents from other manufacturers), do a >>>> container load bulk purchase, and start moving people off R-MAX etc. until >>>> there's a comprehensive solution for the fire risk. 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