TENT - Need help hanging my walls

[Tanya Guptill]

Rhys,

Glad to hear you got a good deal on your fabric.  :)  You have probably already
done so, but you may just want to double check it for waterproofing, and
especially shrinkage.  I met a gentleman here in An Tir that had done his yurt
wall covering out of drop cloth material, and he had about 9" shrinkage after
the first rainstorm.  He was not a merry man...



Mira

Samuel Walters wrote:

> Greetings again all,
>
> Thankyou to all have posted with answers to my questions! And so quickly is
> well!  This is such a nice list.. : )  I'm glad that my idea appears to work
> well.  and I will remember to place the walls on the inside of the strip!
>       As for it being an ambitious first try well...the main consideration
> was being able to fit the full size camp bed I am also building on one side
> of the center pole!  The material I bought (large 12 X 15 painters tarps, an
> idea also gleened from this list and the florigieum sp?) was so cheap (came
> out to about $2.75 a yard) that I couldn't help myself and bought four so I
> had the equivelent of about 48 yards of 60 inch material. It seemed a shame
> to buy it and not put it to good use.  Ha ha..
>
> I have only eight more roof sections to cut the dags for and I will be able
> to start sewing.  (shakes his poor carple tunneled hands lots of cutting)
>
> Again thanks for all who have responded to my post.
>
> Yours in our Society,
>
> Rhys Goch
> Mka Sam Walters
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tanya Guptill <tguptill at teleport.com>
> To: <tentguild at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 4:49 PM
> Subject: Re: TENT - Need help hanging my walls
>
> > M'lord Rhys,
> >
> > Congrats on your new tent!  What an ambitous and spacious choice for a
> first
> > tent :)
> >
> > About hanging the walls--I've used the fabric strip with buttonholes
> before,
> > and had good results.  The trick is to make sure that you use nice large
> buttons
> >
> > and don't space them too far apart.  If you do, you will wind up with the
> weight
> >
> > of the wall pulling down in the place it has been buttoned, which will
> make your
> >
> > walls droop in between, and the bottom of the wall will be uneven on the
> ground
> > (not very pretty).  Also, you will want to remember that the weight of the
> > wall will exert a certain amount of pull on the seam on the roof--be sure
> to sew
> > this
> > so it is NOT opening up on the edge of the roof (you will wake up swimming
> > during
> > a serious rainstorm, which is no fun).
> >
> > You mentioned the rope--I wonder if you are talking about Stephen Bloch's
> use
> > of rope at http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/sca/tents/secondkr.html
> > I had the good fortune to talk with Stephen about his tents, and get a
> tour a
> > couple
> > years ago at Pennsic, and was very impressed by the beauty and
> practicality of
> > his
> > pavilions.  On his web site, he mentions the strip method they use, and
> says,
> > "We're
> > not sure whether it's better to have buttons on the strip and
> > buttonholes on the walls or vice versa, but important: make
> > the walls are inside the strip, rather than outside. This way
> > any water that seeps in through the seam where the strip
> > attaches to the roof will fall on, and run down, the outside of
> > the wall, rather than falling straight down onto whatever you've left near
> the
> > walls. "
> >
> > Good advice! :)
> >
> > Keep us posted,
> > Mira
> >
>
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