Folded Homes FAQs
Celsius v/v
Evolved
from
Coroplast
Cardboard Hardboard
500 21
12
6.2
6.6
7.6
7.0
15.8
9.0
350 21
15
12
4.8
11.7
4.3
9.4
13.8
11.8
9.7
15.5
13.6
250 21
15
4.7
2.5
11.1
9.3
8.0
7.4
Summary
While Coroplast will burn, it does not have a flash point or an uncontrollable
flame spread rate like some acrylics or styrene. It responds very much like paper.
Should a fire start it is easily extinguished by any type of extinguisher. Burning
Coroplast generates combustion products with very low toxicity. This is common
to polyolefin polymers.
[See A:
, M:
(Updated 1/22/2008)
FAULT-TOLERANT DESIGN (FH YURTS)
Human beings rarely do things perfectly. And they often don’t read the assembly
manual… For example, shelter designs that rely upon perfect or near perfect
assembly to be waterproof tend to leak. If any critical characteristic of a design,
like structural integrity or keeping the elements out, depends upon perfect
assembly or maintenance, those characteristics will be candidates for failure.
Folded Homes
®
yurt technology has been designed to be fault tolerant. Making
the structure waterproof does not depend upon perfect assembly. If you leave
out a few bolts, the structure is unlikely to collapse. And if there is a problem, it is
generally easy to fix. [See A:
ASSEMBLY TECHNOLOGY (FH YURTS)
A:
ASSEMBLY – WHAT TOOLS ARE REQUIRED? (FH YURTS)
SC:
KEEPING DRY - ROOF DESIGN (FH YURTS)
]
Keeping it simple is a
Folded Homes
®
company mantra.
UtiYurts
in particular
are assembled from only six different plastic parts and three pre-assembled
metal parts.
TekYurts
with their fancy latching and locking doors and windows,
connector kits and so forth have a few more parts.
(Updated 1/24/2008)
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