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[Alyssa Royse]

can the inside of the yurts be painted? I'd like to not look at the labeling on the inside, but am worried about some things on the playa:

1. how the paint wild adhere - don't want to be snowing paint flakes

2. off-gassing - what kind of paint would be totally safe and how much drying time does it need? 

it's not the end of the world if i don't paint it, i just find it very visually distracting and my ADHD needs all the breaks it can get. :)

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[Bill Wiltschko]

Some artists painted the outside of my hexayurt with acrylic paint last year.  It held up very well on playa.  I don’t know what the drying time was.

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[Alyssa Royse]

cool. i should have been more specific - i want to paint the inside. but if it held up on the outside, then the inside should be fine. :)  just worried about getting high on fumes.....  or, sick, actually. high? meh. 

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[Joshua Keroes]

I'm no paint expert, but I'd guess that if you painted before you hit the playa and gave the paint plenty of curing time, you'd be fine. Ideally, you want a low-VOC paint - see http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/march-2009/home-garden/interior-paints/overview/interior-paints-ov.htm

If you just want a boring finish, your paint stores should all have an area for "mistints". Ask to see the mistints. You'll find plenty of cans with white, beige, brown, blue, and maybe a few more interesting colors. The going rate around PDX is a buck a gallon.

Good luck,
Joshua

[Spiral Syzygy]

I painted the inside of our yurt a few years back with latex paint. This was on the non-aluminized side of Tuff-R. It hols up fine but gets a little tacky if you face two painted surfaces toward each other when stacking the panels. This resulted in some paint pulling off when seperating the panels after storage.

On Aug 3, 2011 10:01 AM, "Joshua Keroes" <jos...@keroes.com> wrote:

I'm no paint expert, but I'd guess that if you painted before you hit the playa and gave the paint plenty of curing time, you'd be fine. Ideally, you want a low-VOC paint - see http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/march-2009/home-garden/interior-paints/overview/interior-paints-ov.htm

If you just want a boring finish, your paint stores should all have an area for "mistints". Ask to see the mistints. You'll find plenty of cans with white, beige, brown, blue, and maybe a few more interesting colors. The going rate around PDX is a buck a gallon.

Good luck,
Joshua

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Alyssa Royse <alyss...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> cool. i should hav...

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[kenwinston caine]

I second the suggestion of using acrylics. They tend to adhere to most
poly surfaces. You'll have to experiment.

And... if you go to a crafts store (like Michaels, for a Big Box
example), you can buy "non-toxic" acrylic powders for mix-your-own
paints for around $2 a pound. They mix with water. Stuff is supposed
to safe for school kids to eat though I don't think it's part of the
school lunch program yet. Just wait for the next round of budget cuts,
though.

Best,
ken winston caine

On Aug 3, 11:27 am, Spiral Syzygy <spiralena...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I painted the inside of our yurt a few years back with latex paint. This was
> on the non-aluminized side of Tuff-R. It hols up fine but gets a little
> tacky if you face two painted surfaces toward each other when stacking the
> panels. This resulted in some paint pulling off when seperating the panels
> after storage.
>
> On Aug 3, 2011 10:01 AM, "Joshua Keroes" <jos...@keroes.com> wrote:
>
> I'm no paint expert, but I'd guess that if you painted before you hit the
> playa and gave the paint plenty of curing time, you'd be fine. Ideally, you

> want a low-VOC paint - seehttp://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/march-2009/home-g...

>
> If you just want a boring finish, your paint stores should all have an area
> for "mistints". Ask to see the mistints. You'll find plenty of cans with
> white, beige, brown, blue, and maybe a few more interesting colors. The
> going rate around PDX is a buck a gallon.
>
> Good luck,
> Joshua
>

[William Ozier]

Just keep in mind: I found that lighting them was VERY VERY easy with the reflective surface inside. A few small hand held LED lights reflected enough to provide good ambient illumination and a flashlight lit the thing like day. So you might want to leave some reflective surfacing for lighting purposes. Just a tip.

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[Pete Baker]

We used flour/water paste to stick old newspaper scraps to the inside of our hexayurt.  It looks fantastic and it stuck really well, but we've not field tested it yet.

I'll report back on it in 5 weeks and let you know how it survived on the playa!

Pete

P.S. - this is my first post to the group. so hello everybody!   I've been a proud 6' hexayurt owner since 2008.

[Alyssa Royse]

:)  That's something else I was considering. But lazy is getting the best of me - and making evap ponds, bucket coolers, kombucha, beer......  (every year I say this is the last year.....)

6:30 and Coming Out. Happy hour 5-7. We tap two iced kegs a day, offering frosty head till it's gone....

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