Tuesday, February 9, 2010

the beginning of the igloo

4 comments:

  1. That looks like wonderful hard work. A home in the snow. Does it ever get finished?

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  2. Well, they'll be working on it tomorrow, but I'm thinking it's more about doing it than actually finishing it. Gideon's attention span for it is rather short.

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  3. My question is how to create the roof?? That aside, I am extremely impressed that they are actually doing it and the progress made so far!

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  4. The roof is simple, the sides are the roof, you bring each row of blocks in ~1/8-1/4th the distance of the block, eventually your walls tilt in to the roof.

    It's probably slightly more complex than 1/8th, something graduated I suppose, 1/16th at first, 1/2 at the top. Same principle though, and YES it was hella hard work... Hopefully tomorrow if work lets up some the snow will be in better shape for the the project.

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