This is a project I’ve wanted to do for at least eight years. I finally made a round floor for my round tent.
One of the hardest steps in setting up the yurt is getting the khana into a circle of exactly the right size. If the diameter is off by more than a few inches, the rafters on the door lintel have a tendency to fall out. So what’s the easiest way to make a circle on a grassy field?
Once the khana, tonno and rafters are up, I then have to put a tarp down before the carpets. What I’ve done in the past is lay out the tarp as much as possible, then walk around the outside pulling the tarp flat and rolling the extra material up.
This looks like garbage.
I thought I had purchased a 20′ x 40′ tarp. Plan was to make a double thickness floor, folded up on the sides so any rainwater would go under the tarp instead of soaking into the rugs.
I lay the tarp put on the driveway and start measuring {Dad voice, “Measure twice, cut once!}
Damn tarp is only 15′ wide!
A little creative thinking and I found a solution. Cut the tarp in half and rotate the two pieces 90 degrees. I now have a really fat “X”
I taped the two pieces together so they wouldn’t shift as I worked. To make the job a bit easier, I folded the tarp into quarters and used my wooden chairs as weights (it was a little breezier than I would have liked.).
A tape measure and a Sharpie to mark my circle.
I cut the circle out and then cut slits from the outer perimeter (100″ radius) to the inner (96″). I then folded the flaps up and taped them so I would have a 4″ tall lip around the floor. The amount of overlap on these flaps I just eyeballed and I probably have too much overlap. In use, the lip will be held up by our furniture, so it shouldn’t matter.
After I folded all the flaps up, I taped around the entire perimeter. I also fully taped the seams where the two layers overlap. I have a double thickness floor except where you see the straight line.
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