Similar notes (and a bit more) from me. I had a similar tarp / rain experience. I had cut mine to the shape of the yurt (about 4-6" bigger than the yurt footprint), and just left the yurt sitting on it (initially). And, like you I started to get water intrusion on Monday. Happily, because there was very little tarp to pull underneath the yurt, I was abel to pull it in from under the yurt during the storm, and stem the water.
Once everything dried, I debated how extensively to tape the tarp to the inside. I ended up just tack-taping it mid-wall on each side (vs a full-on ring of tape) to keep the tarp from sagging down, which worked just fine. Specifics: I put a 2" square piece of bi- tape at the midpoint on the walls, as a surface to tape to and prevent the yurt foil from getting pulled off during teardown. I didn't do anything to hold the tarp up at the wall corners; the folding of the tarp material at those corners introduced enough stiffness to hold the tarp up. This all worked fine. I've concluded that standing up your yurt is best done in the morning hours (6-8am). There is generally no (or, much less) wind then. (Speeds seems to increase as the day proceeds.) Late-afternoon (5-6pm) is predictably the windiest time, and the worst time to assemble. This is my 2nd year with my yurt; I'd stored it with Phoenix between burns. So I came prepared to do some on-playa yurt tape maintenance. I ended up pulling off most of the tape that had been applied on top of other tape last year - e.g. the roof ring, and the tape used to join the roof halves. Any tape applied directly to the R-Max (e.g. hinges) seemed to have held up fine (since it was squeaky-clean on initial application). I also came prepared with a bunch of clean rags (from an auto parts store) to wipe the dust off the ring / roof surfaces to get a good new tape bond. The rags didn't collect enough dust; they left enough behind that I wasn't happy. So I crumpled up wads of Bi- tape, sticky-side-out, and ran them along the tape target areas, which picked up the dust nicely. But can you say "Expensive tack rag?" Next year, I'll try some of those masking-tape lint-rollers (for clothes) to see if that takes the dust off better. (Anybody have any better solution / idea?) In re: door hinge, the tape hinge started to sag for me, too, last year. So I brought some "strap hinges" from Home Depot, and bolted them directly to the yurt with holes through the foam. I started with just one hinge on the upper half of the door. (See photo below). I put the 2nd one on the lower position after a couple of days. CAUTION: Getting the hinge pivot lines aligned vertically is REALLY CRUCIAL. I don't think I got it perfect, which will (over time) cause some wear on / expansion of the bolt holes. I think it'll be ok for another year or two, but I probably eventually need to add plywood like others do. (I'm trying to avoid / minimize ply, because of the bulk / weight overall). Swamp coolers rock. (Thanks, Figjam!) -jb <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ryH7TDdSG3A/VFKunXEe9nI/AAAAAAAAJfs/OmS_l2DnLRw/s1600/yurt-hinge.JPG> On Monday, October 27, 2014 7:35:29 PM UTC-4, Jason Rusoff wrote: > > A couple of things learned at this years burn. (snip) -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
