Forum: Building a Yurt
07-30-2020, 09:43 PM
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Re: Q: Thickness of polyacrylic domes?
Good job. Thanks for the post.
A few years ago I was in our house, when suddenly out of nowhere there came a very loud noise, like a jet was about to crash nearby. As it turned out the noise...
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Forum: Building a Yurt
07-30-2020, 01:51 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,385
Re: Q: Thickness of polyacrylic domes?
Jay, that's a good point about using a rope to stop the roof cover from ballooning up in heavy wind. I made a rope bridle for my 16' yurt out of a fifty foot piece of retired 11mm climbing rope. It...
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Forum: Building a Yurt
07-29-2020, 11:20 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,385
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Forum: Building a Yurt
07-29-2020, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,385
Re: Q: Thickness of polyacrylic domes?
I always opt for as much natural light as is reasonable given the budget. For illumination reference, a typical 4'x3' bedroom window in an older tract house from the 60s / 70s admits about 12 square...
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Forum: Building a Yurt
07-29-2020, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,385
Re: Q: Thickness of polyacrylic domes?
A 6.23 diameter opening has an area of ~about 30 square feet. A 5' opening has an area of about ~20 square feet. So the bigger dome would admit substantially more light. As for yurt dome materals and...
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