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Hi Dave and RB,
If you do deceide to come down, let me know!
No, don't own any land there now, looking forward to the day that I do though.
We used to live on Oahu in the 80's.
How about you guys, do you plan to in the near future or still waiting?
I had forgotten where flower mound is, so I had to look it up on citydata.com
Boy do houses cost a bunch there compared to here! That is amazing.
Aloha,
Lucy
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Hey Lucy & RB,
RB, I understand the "long Haul" thing. My friend will keep an eye out for any Dome raisings in your area. No Lucy, we don't have land on the BI yet. We are hoping to spend some time on the east side this fall. If all goes well we would like to buy land, in the near future. Thanks, dave
Take care,
dave
Blessings,
dave
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Hi -
We were planning on building a dome, but opted out for 2 reasons: 1)Puna is the rainy side, and I hear the are prone to leak; 2) water catchment - roofing options are shingles or a spray-on "rubber" roof - didn't want all those chemicals in my water, and it would take some creative eaving. That said, we drove by a dome in HPP (can't remember what street) and stopped to talk to the folks living there, and they have experienced no problems, and they catch their water.
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I saw that dome on Sunday! Very interesting looking, I was excited to see that someone had chosen a dome.
hope
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i'm in the hunt to buy the hpp dome off makuu dor $165,000. given the facts of life about domes. how many webbers think i'm insane. it's in decent condition and i'm a dome lover.
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If you love it and you like the location and neighbors and the price is acceptable why would you need any other opinions?
There are always people available to talk a person in to or out of something.
Best wishes on you new home.....
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A long time ago we looked at the domes and contacted the mfg. They do look very cool and from the one in, I think, Fern Forest, aren't extrememly difficult to put up.
(The ones we looked at are the sprayed ferro cement ones - that use the big balloon as the form.)
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So I have enjoyed this forum for over a year but this is my first posting. We bought in Leilani three years ago, cleared a pad, built a house, and moved in three months ago.
I left a great job in central CA in 75 to move to Boulder CO to build domes. I had just finished a project at UC Davis where we led a class building several domes on campus for student housing. These are still in use and are the most popular option for on campus housing.
The company I worked for did do some work on geodesic domes but the Davis style of domes are called monolithic. I think the posts from Texas also refer to monolithic domes because the primary company doing them is from Texas. The South family was in Idaho building potatoe storage domes when I as in CO. They have lots of experience with dome building issues. See monolithic.com.
We used the same construction method in the late 70's. The pad is done first and an airform is attached to the pad. A spray-applied plastic, polyurethane foam, is then applied to the inflated airform. Depending on the dome diameter and foam thickness the dome may be self supporting at this point. Next you hang reinforcing steel, rebar, and then spray gunite to encapsulate the steel. Now you have an insulated thinshell concrete dome building which has great structural values. The engineering on these is pretty standard and should satisfy any building codes.
Lots of people love domes but they are a really different look. Decorating may be a challenge, particularly hanging pictures. They do offer a unique building style and living environment. They can be economical to build and go up really fast.
So even though I live in a stick-framed house I do think that there is a place for domes. I don't know if anyone here is doing them but the equipment and materials are here and used for other types of construction.
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I remember seeing a "steel cage" like on "Thunder Dome" being built. They used blue tarps on the underside of the "cage" attatched all over the "cage" with zip ties. Then it was sprayed with the polyeurthane and then shot crete on top of that. That way you didn't need the blower.
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There is a dome that is of the monolithic airform-rebar-shotcrete type located in Fern Acres about one to two miles down Hibiscus St. It is on the right side of the street and visible from the street. This house appears to be about 30-40 feet in diameter. While searching the net about this type of construction I discovered another similar method described here:
http://www.geocities.com/flyingconcrete/
Whats interesting about the flyingconcrete website is that they use lightweight concrete with pumice as an aggregate. On this island we have an abundance of volcanic cinder which has qualities similar to pumice.
I would think this type of construction would be well suited to higher elevations with dry sunny weather. Supposedly it has both thermal mass and insulating properties. The outer roof layer is pure cement, but I'm not sure how well it would hold up to rain here as I've heard the cement here is porous.
Would love to here your thoughts on the subject.
