Yurt thread v2.0

[Reburner]

Originally Posted by Zanx

FYI, today in Ulaan Bataar it dropped to -16c

I walked to work (45 minutes each way) in Moscow last week and the temperature never climbed over -18c. Those Mongolians need to man up

[Zanx]

Originally Posted by lloyd_christmas

Pictures!!

It's been suspended due to winter. Should be back on course once I get a decent weekend of above 10c weather and some sun.

[lloyd_christmas]

Originally Posted by Zanx

It's been suspended due to winter. Should be back on course once I get a decent weekend of above 10c weather and some sun.

Excellent, I look forward to hearing of your progress

[Baketech]

Originally Posted by Zanx

It's been suspended due to winter. Should be back on course once I get a decent weekend of above 10c weather and some sun.

Odd, all this time I had assumed you were an AWY...

[Zanx]

Originally Posted by Baketech

Odd, all this time I had assumed you were an AWY...

No chance, the lawn turns into a bog, and if I put the floorboards down and they get wet, it's game over for them. The finale will be a case of getting the floor down, varnishing it, waiting for it to dry, then getting the yurt up (half a day min) all in one go. Any rain during this process will cause major headaches.

[Baketech]

FWYers...



Good luck with the varnishing project...

[Zanx]

15cm, that's how much bigger the yurt was than the base

Now we have to make extensions to the lip to get the yurt on. To be fair, the yurt was sold as 5m when it was in fact 5m 10cm.

Anyone saying we should have erected the yurt first to measure it before building the base will have a nasty fungal pox posted to them.

[Olly]

I can't believe you didn't erect the yurt first, to measure it, before building the base







As eny fule kno, though, the Mongolian metre is a smidgeon larger than our common little European metres.

[EddieJ]

Handy hint number 175. Structural Loads - a knol by Nikos Vlachos#

[Anne]

[Editor]

Originally Posted by Zanx

Anyone saying we should have erected the yurt first to measure it before building the base will have a nasty fungal pox posted to them.

Brill I have a damned good use to such a fine item.

WTF didn't you? Trust nothing/assume nothing etc. And you an engineer too?

That all said, I'd have done the same thing.


<thinks> no I wouldn't. Not these days. I hope...

Hope you can mod it easy. Chinook full of boiling water to shrink he fucker to yhe based. Oh dear. You know what I mean. Ned a full sized keypad rather than a negtbook. And more sobriety.

XXX

Beed. Now. Or else the koala will emerge &^ it w2asn't funny then. Xxxx

Music. that's what I need. Where;d mr headphones?

Oh dear, Bye.

(do you want to hear aout ythis fucking goblin ot not? Fair enough. Neither did I.)

[Mussels]

Oh dear this really is time for that picture of Nelson.
An answer to the problem EddieJ highlighted may be to attach diagonal supports from near the base of your pier legs to the outside of the new ring, slightly too long to allow for compression under load. I'm not a carpenter though so I don't know the best way to attach them. Good luck.

[E-Man]

I found the smallest one i could...

(As i know you can do that same to me, if i don't get this damn house finished!!)

If there is anything I can do Z, let me know!!.

[go_slow]

Originally Posted by Zanx

Yay! My flooring problems have been solved, I just bagged 37 square metres of new Swedish 12mm pine board for £93, that's £4 a square metre, I can live with that. The yurt will only need 19.63495 square metres to cover the floor, that leaves me with 17 metres to have a play with. It's not T&G but what the hell, it's cheap.

If you still have the timber left over could you not just lay another floor that is 15cm bigger then the one you have? As long as it is all fixed down then that overhang should be able to take the weight I would have thought. May just need to either source a bit more timber or find some way of filling the gaps remaining.