Maintenance agreement w/county to remove snow?

[jeritchie]

about your "down load" or "pounds per square foot";

what is the min they are looking for? do you have a center pole installed, there are a few questions needing to be answered here to get proper help.

All yurt companies have basic "load" ratings, there are things you can add on to or after market that would increase these ratings.

If you start with a basic yurt and basic snow and wind kits, here are things to increase this.

rafters; most yurt companies only go up to 2x6, others you can op for 2x8 or even 2x10s

vertical supports. most only offer 2x4 you might be able to get 2x6; most only will do 2x6, if that. With this are they just screwed together or is there metal for support?

perimeter blocking; this adds support around the circumference of the yurt where the rafters meet the lattice. This is important for those that have large amount of snow on sides pushing inward.


rafter blocking; this adds support to the rafter system. In stead of the cable peventing rafter warping, the blocking does. It also changes the load on the rafter from a single point to mult point.


Center pole. This changes the load from 30' across to only fifteen, this makes a major difference in the "psf" count.


Last would be inside walls that reaches the rafters. Just like on a stick-framed house, if you have the rafters supported by the inside walls, then your "psf" changes.


With all this being said. I have to ask you: Did you ask the county code what the PSF was before you contacted the company you got the yurt from?


IF you said I need 65psf for my area and they said yes and you have it in writing, then you have something to "bit*ch" about. But if you bought the yurt and then found out that it wasn't right, then you should have done more home work.

I am not saying you might not have been mislead, but it's the salesperson job to get you to say yes and when it comes to yurts anyone that claims they know the code for everywhere and everything, well lets just say, they don't and leave it at that. When we are asked, the answer is "yes, no, maybe"

Code enforcement, changes every freaking year. It changes from city to city county to county, state to state; and even if you get this right, you could end up fighting your HOA, some environmental group or just a pissy neighbor that just doesn't like you.

So before you put the blame on the yurt company, did you do your homework first?