Silly question... Wouldn't going from a dark blue, to light grey, near white
with the PC make a huge difference for the temp too?
I can see where once the PC is a little thicker, it'll drop the temp to a nice
reasonable level though.
Leslea
--- Mikey Sklar <sklarm-yahoo@
>
> The PC latex mix seemed to work great on the containers. It is sticking
> very well. The wall temperature has dropped from 140 to 110 with only a
> 1/4" of stucco. I highly recommend this technique combined with
> papercrete blocks on the roof to lower the temperature of these
> containers. If you wanted to live in them, I would recommend insulating
> with 10"+ of PC. I used 16" in my case and can keep the container
> temperature at 90F even only 100F day with no cooling or ventilation.
>
> BTW, if you are curious about your own insulation effectiveness I highly
> recommend getting a infrared remote laser thermometer to measure you
> wall temperatures. This is a excellent tool for finding hot spots and
> cold spots in a given structure.
>
> MT4 Mini Temp Non-Contact Thermometer Gun with Laser Sighting
>
http://www.amazon.
>
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:41:10PM -0000, slurryguy wrote:
> > Mikey, in your container spraying video, you mention a desire to
> > control temperatures inside the container.
> >
> > Did you happen to stick a thermometer inside the container and take
> > some before/after readings? Some compainion outside temps would make
> > it even more interesting. (Is my inner geek showing?)
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