The Trouble with Yurts
- Posted by admin on Sat 03 2009.
- 9 people have commented on this.
The thing about proper Mongolian Yurts – and we hadn’t fully realised this before – is you really do have to know what you are doing!
Lots of bits, lots of covers and everything has to be in exactly the right place, under exactly the right tension. A tweak here and a shuffle there makes a lot of difference.
And every time you do it, it is slightly different. It’s something we do nearly every week of the year which, I guess, is why last week we were brought in as consultants to try and fix someone else’s yurts.
They were bought second hand from an importer in Wales and had been put up very badly – sloping, leaning and flapping all over the place.
We did think we’d just be able to tweak them into place – but No! Eventually one of them all but fell down on our heads and we had to start all over again.
And then we realised the problem. They were rubbish to start with !
Never having come across anyone else’s Mongolian yurts before I had no idea how bad they could be. The wall sections were very thin, the poles were filled with wall filler and many of the ends were either rotting through or didn’t fit in the badly morticed holes they were meant to fit snugly into.
The painting was inept, the doors were bubbling up and the tops were rotting through. The covers had been ‘adjusted’ to make second doorways where none were meant to be and the skirts were the wrong height and the wrong length.
Worse than that, the guy who sold them – who is meant to be an expert – hadn’t even cut the door poles to length. So all of the doors hung outwards – one of the most basic errors imaginable.
So, if you are in any doubt about which Mongolian Yurts to go for – be very careful. We went to a company called Ulaantaij for our yurts and now I know we were right. There really is no contest.
Happily, in this case, the casual user of this particular village wont notice any of this because after 9 man (and women) days of fixing, adjusting, repositioning, shaving, cutting and recovering, we sorted them out. And now they look fab – for this season anyway!
Simply Yurts to the rescue!
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les raw says:
im interested in your yurts,what price range and sizes do they come in. thankyou.
susan tristem says:
Please send me a price for both hiring and buying.
I am interested in a Yurt to hold at lease 80 people at a party in May…
Look forward to hearing
S M Tristem (Mrs)
matthew says:
I want to buy a normal size yurt while I am in England between 17th-28th April.
Please let me know where I can see one. Please answer this email so I know someone is there.
Yours, Matthew
georgia siamou says:
im interested in your yurts,what price range and sizes do they come in. thankyou
John Cockrill says:
We are proposing to purchase a number of yurts and would be grateful for any information regarding pricing, size etc.
We have looked at several “yurt holiday locations” but until we saw your website we realise that some suppliers do not offer what we are looking for.
simplyyurts says:
Hello, Sorry for this late reply but we haven’t been keeping our eyes on this for a while. i hope you have found your answers but if not then please do contact us again through the website main address – events@simplyyurts.co.uk – and I’d be delighted to answer your queries
mrs helen harper says:
hi still awaiting reaply from email. with all my questions , you have given so much info on your web site it is fantastic, still would love to ask bout water and toilet within the yurt and cant believe the great job you have don with othere people . hope to hear from you soon helen.
yurt holidays says:
Wow the intricacies of yurts! Thanks for the heads up.
simplyyurts says:
Hi Helen, Sorry we didn’t see this… or in fact the email you mention.. How can we help? (we tend to deal with specifics via the events@simplyyurts.co.uk email address…)