November, 2009

Winter tent

About this time every year our open plan mezzanine office that overlooks the warehouse on one side and a canal basin on the other starts getting a bit cold. It's fine if we're moving around packing bins but sat down doing office work is a bit uncomfortable. It would be financial as well as environmental madness to heat the whole building so we move into our specially made yurt.

We don't need to heat the yurt - computers and people keep it warm. So warm in fact that we have to take the green canvas roof off most afternoons to let some heat out. Our shiny new Mac looks and works wonderfully but as all the workings are in the keyboard and monitor we rely on the PCs to keep our feet warm!

Looking a bit tropical for a Yorkshire November

Surrounded by bins

Two canvas layers, supported by a Cornish ash frame, sandwich a Celotex insulative layer. This bubble wrap type material covered by silver foil is apparently the equivalent of 7" of traditional loft insulation