!!!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

Coydon Wallham wrote:

...On the canvas, the 12oz "duck" cotton canvas I bought for the yurt and used on the Longhaus has kept water from leaking through the main sections, but does wick through where the support poles (uni rafters) touch the fabric, resulting in drips here and there...

If you could score enough old 100% wool blankets and sew them together to make a cover for your frame that the canvas then went over, I wonder if that would solve the drip problem? It might make it worse? It would pad the tarp where it goes over the wood, and it might hold the water long enough for it to dry rather than drip.

It would require experimentation... Some yurts are made of felted wool with animal hides over them. However, I think those ones are in a fairly dry environment.

Jay Angler wrote:Coydon Wallham wrote:

...On the canvas, the 12oz "duck" cotton canvas I bought for the yurt and used on the Longhaus has kept water from leaking through the main sections, but does wick through where the support poles (uni rafters) touch the fabric, resulting in drips here and there...

If you could score enough old 100% wool blankets and sew them together to make a cover for your frame that the canvas then went over, I wonder if that would solve the drip problem? It might make it worse? It would pad the tarp where it goes over the wood, and it might hold the water long enough for it to dry rather than drip.

It would require experimentation... Some yurts are made of felted wool with animal hides over them. However, I think those ones are in a fairly dry environment.

Reaction not from experience with wool tents ... My thought is that the rain water will stay on top of the wool blanket, and (if the wet weather goes on long enough) then finally will creep through the blanket and will start to drip.
I do know (from long ago) large canvas army tents. Most rain drops glide off the canvas. I think canvas is much better for a tent-like construction than wool blanket. If you really want to use wool (for insulation), then put a layer of canvas over it. Modern yurts have canvas over the felt, like in the past they had animal hides.