I've never liked the idea of using so much tape to seal the walls to the tarp floor. Inside or outside, you'll have some adhesion problems with the playa dust, and a lot of tape to cut off when you're ready to break down. I just applied two parallel strips of peel 'n stick foam door insulation to the bottom edge of my walls before I left home (i.e., pre-playa dust). The foam does a good job of sealing the walls for dust, so once the yurt is up and staked down you're done. No, I haven't been able to test this yet in a rain storm, but I think it would work OK for occasional showers.
On Monday, August 20, 2012 11:40:09 PM UTC-7, Ray S wrote: > > I'm curious if anyone has cut their tarp to be a hexagon so it can wrap > around the yurt and get taped up to the walls? Camp Danger recommends this > method, but doesn't go into much detail. I'm afraid the tarp will fray if > I cut it with scissors, and make it even worse if I tape it to the yurt (as > when I remove that, it will probably destroy the frayed ends of the tarp). > If need be, I'll ruin a tarp so I can have a rainproof yurt, but I'd > prefer it if my tarp can last another year (or several!). Does anyone have > any experience doing this or any pro tips? I have a 20'x20' silver tarp > which I'm thinking of cutting to size, but about 6" longer so it can be > taped up to the walls. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/Q8aHKqBnIGMJ. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
