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[bluepinecones]

What size is your dome?

You might check out these sites for help on cover for your dome; some interesting options:

Offers plans to make covers (scroll to bottom: http://www.byexample.com/projects/current/dome_cover

This one sell pre made screens, doors, etc (again near bottom of page) http://www.energistx.com/spaces/domes.html

Includes directions for building domes and making covers: http://www.skymind.com/~ocrow/dome

Interesting short discussion on covers http://www.weasel.com/dome_cover.html

Just interesting: http://domeguys.com/index.html
http://www.alaskadomes.com/Geodesic_Shelters.html

Clps that might be handy for all sorts of camping uses: http://www.shelter-systems.com/relieftents/shelter-fabric.html

Okay, I'll quit now. Didn't realize there would be so much related stuff out there. Good luck on project.

[Nasoosie]

WOW...I never knew so many others had struggled with how to cover a dome, either! I need to go out there and take some measurements of the dome I have. It would be nice to be able to have a waterproof roof section with screen sides. And I will need to plan how much of the structure to take apart for access to the interior. I just think it'll make a fantastic permanent screen shelter. It's just a matter of deciding which way to put the screening and waterproof materials together to make it the most durable.

Thanks so much for all those links! I have bookmarked them and will look for some more ideas on piecing materials together. I would so love to get this job done for the GTG here this summer.

[Sparkle]

Soos, is your dome made with Star-Plate Connectors? I remember back in my hippie-dippy days I had every edition of Mother Earth News and they advertised them. I bought them and never got the opportunity to use them. Decades later I sold them on e-Bay for way more than I paid for them. There were all kinds of instructions for covering domes. I bet if you Googled M.E.N. you'd find them.

[Nasoosie]

No, Sparkle---my dome is made from either 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch pvc pipe, melted flat at both ends, drilled, and bolted together at the joints. It was a project for the kids in engineering class at school.

Covering that----measuring it and counting the triangles and hexagons and all that good stuff first----should be high on my list of to do things. I got some good ideas exploring the sites that blue pinecones left for me this morning. Guess I'll get off here now and get my tape measures and go to it!