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i_am_chris
05-23-2005, 05:09 PM
Hiya,

I'm laying out an interior wall for our yurt. This will be around the 3/4 bathroom. Essentially, the wall is a 7*7 right angle, one fourth of a circle as the yurt is round. The wall can't be attached to the ceiling or outside of the yurt wall, so it is only attached to the floor. It isn't load bearing, but one side will have the water pipes. It also has to have a "roof" in order to keep the bathroom vapors contained so the fan can draw them out. Anyway, I'm not totally sure how to do the top of the wall, since it slopes up. Should I make a standard box frame and put the additional angle on top? Should I maybe put a notched piece across where the top plate would be? I can probably do okay with whatever I come up with, but your advice would be quite helpful. See the attached drawing, tis kinda the gist of it. There's two sections, they'll form a right angle at the taller side, and one section will have a door in it. Cheers!

Rich
05-25-2005, 06:05 PM
I'm just a bit lost - are you just asking about a low free standing wall?

giddonah
05-25-2005, 06:46 PM
The roof on your yurt is fabric, right? Just leave a gap at the top of the wall and seal it with some fabric to match the roof. Then you'll easily be able to take it down when you move. As far as the free standing part, I'd imagine you'd need feet sticking out to give it a platform to stand on. I'm not too familiar with yurts, but can you attach it to the roof? Maybe with some rope?

i_am_chris
06-01-2005, 07:31 AM
the outer walls of the yurt are 7' high, which is the height of the cross beam about 3/4 of the way up in the diagram. Wasn't sure how to do the angled part on top. Can't attach this free-standing wall to the roof or the sides of the yurt. My current plan is to make two frames and nail them together.

giddonah
06-01-2005, 01:00 PM
I don't see why you can't make a free standing wall that has an inch or two gap at the top, then just velcro a strip of fabric from the top of the wall to the roof. All you'll have to do to the roof is sew the velcro backing on, and the thing would come down in minutes. I'd build the wall with feet sticking out and just cover them with rugs. The rugs and everything on the rugs will give stability to the wall.

i_am_chris
06-06-2005, 06:39 AM
We don't care about having 100% coverage...so there will be a gap between top of wall & roof. If we did want to do something like that, probably have to glue the velcro to the roof and my fiancee has Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, so using any glue is out of the question. Sewing to the roof would probably make it leak :shock:

giddonah
06-06-2005, 06:22 PM
Sewing to the roof would probably make it leak :shock:
Oh. Um. Yeah, didn't quite think that one through. I guess you can tell I don't have much experience with Yurts :wink: :lol: