Greetings, On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 19:37 -0700, Alyssa Royse wrote: > Ya, we know that's the size, and that's actually what we want. a cool, > dark, cleanish quietish place for just us. something private - as > opposed to our big public shade structure / biergarten. after all, > it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it. plenty of space > for us to nap, chill, watch movies during a dust storm. :)
Interestingly enough, I'm doing something similar this year, at Pennsic, with actual Ger (what most people call yurt) structures. They are 16 foot in diameter rounds, except instead of 1 door apiece, 5 of them have 3 doors, at 120 degrees. The 6th has the 120 degree separated doors with a 4th door in the middle of the inside wall. So what I've done is made a taller roof, sitting off the 6 roof-rings as a similar slope, to a central roof ring. This gives me a slopped roof that covers all the space, and gives the interior space that much more headroom. (For balance, I've had to also connect the 6 roof-rings together, so they pull inward, to the ratio of the outward push ... ratcheting straps are your friends.) While I can't quite picture how it would work, might it be possible to do the same? Some sort of raised roof from the peaks, continuing the slope, with the inner roof-tape lines going all the way to the ground? I'm just not sure what shape would be structural to fill in the gaps. But, indeed, you could just drop and tape a "spare roof" in the center, just bevel the inside edges a touch, and, if you have a (collapsible) pole in the center of the center one you can lean the inner roof partitions against, as you are taping them into place, provided you aren't going to have a rain issue. If you are worried about rain, though, you could always put a small "weep hole" (some sort of cloth that would wick the water, but not the dust) in the corners of the "center/7th" with buckets underneath. Oh, and in terms of rain, I've seen people put a "bead" of caulk, tar, or pine-sap along the upper edge of their tape, just to make the water run over, rather than under it. I've also seen people use those mylar blankets over hexacomb, cut just a little too long, with sand put in, and taped like a french-seam so the edge of the blankets are folded under, and the sand sits in the slightly distended pocket running around the edge. It's not shingling, but it's fast and seems to work, because, in a high wind, the sand might get blown about, but it's easy enough to resettle. Percy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
