Greetings, I find that if I lay down the tarp, lay down sand-bags, and then seat the hexayurt on the sandbags, and then attach the tarp to the outside of the hexayurt, I take care of any unevenness in the ground (not such an issue at the burn, granted) have my weight around the sides added, to keep things in place, defeat the wind, and have just that little bit more height to my doorway.
Percival On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Julie Danger <[email protected]> wrote: > If the floor can be both waterproof and wind proof, I am a big fan of > velcro because it's so reusable. One reason I tape my tarp to the outside > of the hexayurt is that I like my tarp to stay flat on the floor. Wind can > pretty easily slip under the floor of the hexayurt and lift up the tarp, > especially depending on what the high or low pressure systems are doing. > Even my tarp gets some lift if I don't have rugs all over it. > > There have been some other innovations about the flooring issues of the > yurt. I discovered a major drawback for yurts near big speakers: The > hexayurt is so tightly bound to the ground that the bass vibrations carry > up your walls and makes the bass beat sound louder inside the hexayurt! > People have discussed using various weather stripping foams to distribute > that vibration-- adding another factor to the tarp-to-yurt connection. > > > > On Feb 12, 2013, at 7:03 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt/topics > > - Tarp cut to fit hexayurt <#13ce4bd49e634ae2_group_thread_0> [1 > Update] > > Tarp cut to fit > hexayurt<http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt/t/bb33429679dfc61> > > Scott Rossman <[email protected]> Feb 11 05:44PM -0800 > > What if you used sticky back velcro (2'-3' think) for attaching the > tarp > to the hexayurt? My thought is to put the hook side on the tarp and > the > loop side on the walls of the hexayurt. I think it will get rid of the > danger of cutting your walls. > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group > hexayurt. > You can post via email <[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send<[email protected]>an > empty message. > For more options, visit <http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt/topics>this > group. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
