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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/2g62olt:thesacredreznor replied to your photo “Took the yurt down today.”
poor naked yurt!
Yeah, it was depressing looking at it in that state. Especially since it showed how the lattice is all bowed wherever the lath had knots in it, which is everywhere– it’s very low-quality lath, the guy who built the yurt was pretty dissatisfied but it was the only lumber he could get. It’s better, I guess, to rip the 1x2s yourself from a 2x4 but he didn’t have a table saw. So, when the lattice got damaged last year when the thing collapsed in a hurricane (and the only reason was that I hadn’t set it up properly), Dad and I replaced the damaged slats with lath ripped from assorted clear 2x4s Dad had been hoarding for, in some cases, over a decade (and he knew exactly where they were, too; he’d been holding onto them for nebulous “purposes” all that time, and could lay hands on them instantly– well, there was some climbing around in the barn, but he knew where they were, and I get some notion of what I too could be like if I didn’t have such terrible attention and memory issues, sigh)– and those slats weren’t bowed at all. (cut for more wittering on about yurts, I’m kind of a nerd about them now)
Anyway. It shows how evenly the strain is distributed over the entire lattice (khana, I think it’s really called), to see that every clear slat was fine and every knotted slat was twisted at the knots. Unfortunately it’s bad enough that the roof ring had gone off-kilter by midsummer, as the wall buckled a bit here and there; adding the foil insulation in October kind of actually helped a bunch to shore it up, which is sad since that stuff has basically no structural qualities. I’m going to have to do some careful repairing– I want to expand the khana a few feet anyway so I can keep the thing exactly the same circumference but make it slightly taller– so I’ll have to put more slats in, but I might disassemble parts of it and try to intersperse the new slats in among the old ones. Gradually, if I have the thing for long enough, I’ll have an entirely new khana, because I’ll have replaced every one.
(That’d be ideal. But I don’t regret buying it; he passed along the cheapness of the lumber by not charging me all that much, and I’d never have had the time to make one from scratch. Replacing slats, I can do. The tono alone is worth the purchase price, I think; there have to be a hundred screws in that fucking thing. I could never have done that math. I can barely use a screwgun as it is.)
I also wanted to take the tono, the roof ring, home with me and paint it all decoratively, I think that would be cool to do. But I think I might do that some other time. My car is crammed full of everything that was in that yurt…
poor naked yurt!
Yeah, it was depressing looking at it in that state. Especially since it showed how the lattice is all bowed wherever the lath had knots in it, which is everywhere– it’s very low-quality lath, the guy who built the yurt was pretty dissatisfied but it was the only lumber he could get. It’s better, I guess, to rip the 1x2s yourself from a 2x4 but he didn’t have a table saw. So, when the lattice got damaged last year when the thing collapsed in a hurricane (and the only reason was that I hadn’t set it up properly), Dad and I replaced the damaged slats with lath ripped from assorted clear 2x4s Dad had been hoarding for, in some cases, over a decade (and he knew exactly where they were, too; he’d been holding onto them for nebulous “purposes” all that time, and could lay hands on them instantly– well, there was some climbing around in the barn, but he knew where they were, and I get some notion of what I too could be like if I didn’t have such terrible attention and memory issues, sigh)– and those slats weren’t bowed at all. (cut for more wittering on about yurts, I’m kind of a nerd about them now)
Anyway. It shows how evenly the strain is distributed over the entire lattice (khana, I think it’s really called), to see that every clear slat was fine and every knotted slat was twisted at the knots. Unfortunately it’s bad enough that the roof ring had gone off-kilter by midsummer, as the wall buckled a bit here and there; adding the foil insulation in October kind of actually helped a bunch to shore it up, which is sad since that stuff has basically no structural qualities. I’m going to have to do some careful repairing– I want to expand the khana a few feet anyway so I can keep the thing exactly the same circumference but make it slightly taller– so I’ll have to put more slats in, but I might disassemble parts of it and try to intersperse the new slats in among the old ones. Gradually, if I have the thing for long enough, I’ll have an entirely new khana, because I’ll have replaced every one.
(That’d be ideal. But I don’t regret buying it; he passed along the cheapness of the lumber by not charging me all that much, and I’d never have had the time to make one from scratch. Replacing slats, I can do. The tono alone is worth the purchase price, I think; there have to be a hundred screws in that fucking thing. I could never have done that math. I can barely use a screwgun as it is.)
I also wanted to take the tono, the roof ring, home with me and paint it all decoratively, I think that would be cool to do. But I think I might do that some other time. My car is crammed full of everything that was in that yurt…
