I'm planning to build an H13 and frame around the door with brackets for added strength and rigidity (alá http://steampunkworkshop.com/pentayurt-for-burning-man/), so I'm betting that the weight of the yurt will suffice to keep the tarp pinned down.
On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 2:24:20 PM UTC-7, Hunter King wrote: > > I like it. My only concern would be keeping the outdoor section of the > tart flat against the 2x4 in the door section. > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:57 PM, <m...@kapamaki.net <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm in the process of building a yurt for the Gerlach regional, and I had >> a quick design question. I've been googling around and haven't found >> anything yet, so I'd love to hear if anyone has done something similar. >> >> I was thinking about putting down six 2x4s in a hexagonal shape, laying >> my ground tarp on top, then placing the hexayurt on top of that, so that >> the walls of the hexayurt sit on the ground just outside of the 2x4 >> hexagon, with the tarp separating them. The tarp goes under the hexayurt >> walls, then up over the "lip" formed by the 2x4s beneath it, then back to >> the ground. The end result would be a raised tarp lip running around the >> inside of the yurt, and the hope would be that any water that gets under >> the yurt wall would be stopped there. I attached a quick drawing of how >> this might look. >> >> It would mean transporting six long 2x4s, and a little bit of set up on >> the playa, but it would mean not having to tape the tarp around the inside >> of the yurt. >> >> Has anyone done something similar? Any thoughts on if this would work? >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> 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 hexayurt+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to hexa...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://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 hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
