For applying tape over the top, I use a window squeegee taped to a long stick. Mine has a sponge side and a rubber side. The first is good for de-dusting and the second is good for tamping the tape down.
Bonus: It'll even wash your car's window pre-Exodus. Weird, huh? On Thu Oct 30 2014 at 2:56:15 PM Jay Batson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
