diydomebuilders
Welcome!
created January 20, 2020
(updated January 20, 2020)
Welcome to diydomebuilders,
This site was put together in hopes of making the domebuilding experience an easy one.
Geodesic domes make for some very strong and durable structures, and their biggest advantage, I believe, is an easy to build roof.
There are many routes you can take to building a dome and the site is here to help walk you through them.
The site is divided into 5 sections
The
Library
section has information about the history of the site and catalogs of other sources for domebuilding.
If you check out the diydomebuilders+ catalog, you might find some inspiration from other domebuilder's experiences.
The
Design
section explains the
theory
behind geodesic domes.
The
Build
section explains the
practical
side of domebuilding.
The
Offgrid
section is to help make the most of your geodesic dome.
Most important in this section, is safely preparing for potential disasters that could happen.
And lastly, the
Calculators
section contains the recipes for your domebuilding.
The calculators on this site were made to calculate all the things you need to know.
Down to pipe length, bolt/nut count, weight of dome, and so forth.
One thing I want to stress, is that if you are investing some money into your domebuilding project, then I highly recommend double (or even triple) checking the calculations manually.
Enjoy!