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Friday, October 17, 2003

The sukkah of the future

Ideas for future sukkas. I'll keep adding to this list.

• Make the sukkah a few inches smaller in width and length. (It's something like 10 feet 6 inches in each dimension.) As it is, the roof mats (designed for a 10' x 10' sukkah) are straining to cover the roof, and they have a distressing tendency to fall off. A couple of more cross-supports on the top will help with this.
  
• Get more elbows! Elbows, tees, and see if we can find three- and four-way elbows. This is the highest priority.
  
• Get more pipe, so we can complete the bottom of the sukkah. This is likely why it fell down this year.
  
• Secure the bottom of the sukkah better.
  
• Secure the canvas in a way that also allows wind to pass through it. Perhaps applying it in thinner pieces would work. Perhaps we can get a grommet-making machine (about $10) and put grommets on the canvas all the way around; this is pretty cheap and would be very helpful. This ties into the next item, which is to--
  
• Make the sukkah heavier. If the canvas is secured to the sukkah, then it will at present state of mass, blow across the yard like a ship with sails. It's either that or build it on the Raritan.

We likely won't get to all of these items by next year, but hopefully we'll get to at least a goodly portion of them. We built a very nice sukkah this year, and it's all fiddling from here on in; fun!

posted by Neil  # Friday, October 17, 2003

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