Dome II - she lives!
Well....I did a lot of what I said I would after demise of DOME I in storm Barra 7/12/2021 and rebuilt the dome with only a few small repairs to the cover and a couple of bamboo poles. Somewhat bizzarrely , rather than using stacks of cement blocks to raise the dome to allow the underlying layer to be added....I happened to have a set of dining room chairs resting in my garage. Anyway, though this was a larger strain on the structure the vertical ,movement of the dome onto the chair seats could be acheived far more quickly than moving loads of blocks ...and so was a shorter and less periolous assembly. Second time around the slackening and straighten and re-tightening operation of each of the hexagonal and pentagonal connectors was realised more efficiently and I am convinced Dome II is more inherently stable than Dome I. With Polythene cover in place and raring to go. Only 2 or 3 days before annual holiday....so need to protect against wind catching under edge of dome and arrange irr