Palacial Megadome: Part 7 Stop your Whining

[carp1844]

This is the best palatial megadome vid I have ever seen!

[aeiz]

I've been thinking, you could totally build some sort of bridge from the ledge to your top floor area and it would save you from having to hike down the hill!

[syroncoda]

hey jaime, are you going to put a heat sink in your dome when you build the top room? you know a small fan and tubing to suck hot air from the top of the building to dump it into a heatsink on the bottom floor? i saw them do it in the british show "its not easy being green" and it sounded useful for a vertical home.

[JMEMantzel]

umm..... I haven't gotten to that part yet. I'm making this crap up as I go!

[GOJIRADOR]

what about the light you got from the opaque tarp that is now a roof?

[IvelliosAG]

Looking good so far! Haven't read back through the comments yet, but does anybody else think the dome now look like it's wearing an old samurai-esque hat now?

[saltwaterwop]

Many have already said it but I'll say it again. I'm Amazed that you did all of this heavy complex roofing work mostly by yourself way up there on the roof. Not discounting Dashan's contributions of course since I know she helped. I'd have fallen the very first hour I was up there. Or maybe I'd never have gone up there in the first place. LOL. I hate even putting up Christmas Lights on a one story house

[1N4148]

Looks great! And it's nice with som exterior wiews on the dome. There has been some glimpses of it in previous vids, but now I can really see the size of it.

How are you gonna weather-proof the roof?

[kovakyl]

this is awesome man... its crazy to think that your doing this all on your own... props

[kchida1980]

Wow Jamie. You're such a slacker. I can't believe you couldn't finish that thing in half a day. :)

[aleks138]

im confused. are these old videos or what you're doing now? cause i remember the top part being on the dome long ago ?:(

[madmodders]

This is a new top part. He scrapped the old little room at the top a few videos ago. Haven't you watched every video? Pay attention. ;-)

[JMEMantzel]

ha ha. nice. :-P

[42fba]

Your dome is turning into a tower : ) Aesthetically, this is making the dome less dome-like, but I guess the tarp dome was kinda like living inside a giant tent, which must get old rater fast.

Keep documenting up the good work!

Oh, and starting planning the dome-sized robot, because you and I have so far had a different interpretation of "giant" when it comes to robots :-p

Hmmm... walking robot dome house... want.

[Timmy6216]

bravo jamie. keep it up man

im a fellow weirdo btw

[vincentcle]

make sure the wind wont rip the roof off

[sloppycoder]

Amazing quality work! Could not imagine how it would all go together when you were making the parts.

Good stuff!

[sp4zzpp2]

garbage is uncool

[mr5c2]

i knew all the time that your new roof's gonna be awesome... but is didn't know that it will look so great. i have only one question: how do you want to make the roof waterproof? i just thought that the plywood and the sprayfoam won't be totally waterproof

[JMEMantzel]

Ya. Sheet metal. Steel roofing stuff. I'm not sure if I'll have time to do that part before snow, so i painted the roof so it'll last the winter if it has to.

[texas5020]

This is realy what I admire you for, nothing is impossible and you won´t let anything stop you no matter how much trouble it is or how long it gonna take.... Stunning!!!

[edjorg]

That's exactly why I drive all the way the f---up to Vermont to hang out with him.

[JMEMantzel]

thanks! Ya. No point in thinking things will take too long. I learned that in the time it takes to give up..... I could usually be dome! ....or well on my way. :-)

[Joelbitar07]

Im stunned as usual! keep em coming!

[JMEMantzel]

you got it!  :-)

[hobbexp]

i have no idea what you making, but the video was fun, 5/5 :0)

[Raggadouche]

Damn triangles, always in the way.

[seanmulhall]

Jamie, what was the frame work originally used for? Thanks.

[JMEMantzel]

Which frame work? The triangles? The steel frame?

[seanmulhall]

Sorry Jamie. The trianglular sections that formed the mega dome. I am intrigued by your home and am interested in the design. I assumed the whole sturcture came from one source.

[JMEMantzel]

heh heh. Nope. Half of it came from the junk yard. :-P

[lstrex]

looking pretty kl jaimie

[Andyman7714]

The ultimate monkey bars!

[jcf005]

maybe not but it would still be "Saweet"

[captcaveman4201]

i just got thinkin cuz this video mentions rain a few times in it... do you ever have to worry about lightning bolts hitting all of that metal?

[mepillusions]

Aluminum is not a good electric conductor. Its chances of attracting lighting are slim so even if it was hit, the current would only travel about 10 feet from the point of impact. A science project of mine went wrong and thats how I came to know this info.... dont ask, I got a C for effort on my project.

[edjorg]

what does that have to do with the galvanized steel pipe in the dome frame? Anyway, at least it's grounded, literally.

[kchida1980]

Actually, aluminum is a great conductor; that's why many powerlines and feeders are made of aluminum. However, the dome forms a "Faraday Cage" around the occupants, so lightning shouldn't be a problem unless the occupant(s) touch the metal structure (i.e. chain link fence). Even then, the current would take the path of least resistance, which certainly would not be a human body if an alternative aluminum path were adjacent to him/her. BTW, current in equals current out - Kirchoff's Law.

[JMEMantzel]

Thank you very much for explaining all that!  :-) I keep getting the same question, and got tired of answering it. ha ha

[mepillusions]

You should tell that to my project... it did the opposite of what you just said. What I dont get is if a good conductor, why does it only effect a short distace on a aluminum sheet? Do I have to push for more power or do I need to put more wires AROUND the object im working on? I decided to continue working on my science project to get it to work. its a good idea but before I put it on youtube, I want to make sure it works right!

[JMEMantzel]

shhhh.... don't tell the lightning that the dome is steel! Well... there are taller things around. I just hope it hits them instead. :-)

[Nysswald]

That's a goodlooking roof :) Are you going to cover it with tar paper or something like that? :)

[JMEMantzel]

sheet metal. ...I hope.  :-)

[dirtTdude]

im going to have to recommend against composition.... of course you probably already know how heavy it is and how expensive... i was just telling jay that we should have chosen sheet metal... im such a dork sometimes

[Kuparowitz]

Well You will be surely able to hear the sheet metal in the summer =)

[olsensth]

wow i wondered what you were doing over the last weeks, but i have to say it really works out.

dome 2.0 ! yay

[JMEMantzel]

thanks! Ya, the walls are going well too

[cartmill1]

Man Alive! Now you KNOW you're going to have to add a row of double paned, Plexiglas windows just below the roof line... Sweet view.

[JMEMantzel]

ya. I'm already on the lookout for windows. I'm quad panelling them, though!

[bilko1971]

Thanks for making these videos Jamie, i really look forward to them.

[JMEMantzel]

no prob! It fun making 'em, actually

[jcf005]

you should put a zip-line from the top of the dome to the bottom of your mountain, or maybe a ski lift type gizmo so you don't have to walk up the mountain everyday.

[captcaveman4201]

or do from the top of the mountain to the top of the dome..

[DerCrossi]

"so you don't have to walk up the mountain everyday. "

- You're totally not getting jaimies lifestyle ^^

[JMEMantzel]

hee hee.

[edjorg]

Oh, Lord, he's been talking about doing that for over a year. Please don't encourage him- he'll probably have me and Dashaina test it because we're lighter :P

[jcf005]

@edjorg

cant hold down a good idea : /

[Kuparowitz]

Maybe he had not enough of connecting two distance things by rope while he was a kid... next time he might use stronger rope though =P

[JMEMantzel]

well.... I'm, all for the zip line. ...but I like walking up. Its good exercise. I haven't left the mountain in days, though. heh heh

[jcf005]

yea its great exercise I am sure, and thats more important than anything

[duku6]

Yay fellow weirdos! keep up the crazy projects Jaimie!!!!

[Karpens16]

Here we are now, entertain us.

[idahodad1]

Before Sprayfoam there was Asbestos blanket.

[JMEMantzel]

ya. heh heh. I'm quite glad for spray foam. :-)

[Everfalling]

it's becoming less of a 'dome' as this project goes on.

[JMEMantzel]

blasphemy!

[evilfrogeeo]

wow great work your kinf of a machine never stop working and a kind of super hero doing all that almost alone

dont sto pim sure you inspire lot of people

[edjorg]

Hmm. I just noticed it's going to be much more phallic-looking than before. Or maybe like a missile silo. Anyhoo, it sure is embiggned.

[mjlynch712]

god.

[PaulGaijin]

The dome is looking great JaImie, awesome work!

[jlw5015]

You never cease to amaze me. Its looking awesome!

[ShawnCFarm]

You must love spray foam by now hahahah. Looking good. Its starting to look like a castle now. Just wondering what you are going to use for roofing to seal the water out?

[TheGreatSteve]

I like the giant Panda. The dome looks kinda oriental in it's current configuration.

[blinkys]

The roof is looking so impressive. It is hard two believe that this was done by one (or two) people.

[pourquoilebrun]

C'est super ce que vous faites.

[thepontingxtreme]

Penultimate!

[TheGreatSteve]

Lol!

[ianandholly]

you should make that into a deck....cool viewing are then.

[TheGreatSteve]

Last!