Hi we just built a yurt and got married! The yurt is our first home together and we are super excited to be living this way.
We bought our yurt secondhand from family friends. The model is a 6m diameter that was imported directly from Mongolia and has all the traditional construction techniques.
We have been having water problems though since we erected it on a 6m round deck.
The problem is our wool fleece
seems to be really really wet all the time. We are coming into winter now for us and have had quite a bit of rain the last couple weeks and our canvas flap over our
has begun dripping. Our fleece is wet all the way around. If you reach under the canvas and squeeze it anywhere around the yurt you can ring it out like a wet cloth.
It's quite bizarre as we can't find any obvious leaks. The water in it seems disproportionate to the amount of any given rainfall. So we suspect water is getting trapped and building up somehow.
Does anyone have any advice on how to repair this? We are considering options such as, (1) replacing the entire canvas when we can, (2) building a canvas fly overtop the yurt (this has serious drawbacks for my wife's gardens though and prevents us finishing installation with a fireplace, (3) Trying to get the canvas re waterproofed.
Any experience or suggestions that can be offered would be immensely helpful thanks.
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