A yurt is a free-standing portable dwelling with a distinctive circular footprint and cone-shaped roof. While they can be used as permanent dwellings in many climates, doing so presents unique home improvement challenges.
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Can a yurt be a dwelling?
Yurts are beautiful, charming, quirky, easy to build, portable, and cheap.
I bought a 30' yurt from Pacific Yurts. It includes the insulation kit.
Can I use it as a dwelling?
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What's the appropriate cable type along exposed rafters?
This is a followup to my previous, more general question.
I installed (exposed) 2"x4" studs at strategic locations. These provide a mounting point for metal boxes, and EMT carries the wire up from ...
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What's a good way to support a freestanding chimney?
I'm working on adding a woodstove to a yurt. The chimney will go out a sidewall and then head up. There is not a good way to brace the chimney to the yurt itself.
Here are some options I've read ...
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How should I wire up a yurt?
This yurt 30 ft. diameter; area is 700 sq. ft. ; circumference is 90 ft.
The walls are lath lattice covered with canvas. There's no interior wall space to run Romex like a regular house. You can't ...
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How do I properly paint a wood floor made of plywood?
I have built a yurt platform, which is basically a deck with 1 1/8" tongue-and-groove plywood as the decking. Usually that stuff is used as a subfloor, but in this case it's the floor itself. Call it ...
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How high should I make my yurt platform?
I am building the floor/platform for a 30' yurt. It's basically a deck.
30' diameter circle
pre-cast concrete pier blocks
4" x 6" pressure treated joists, 4' o.c.
1 1/8" tongue-and-groove plywood ...
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How do I build a deck that is easy to take apart?
I spent the day taking apart the platform for a yurt. It was a real pain, and I want to make it easier to take apart next time.
Old deck construction details:
Decking was 1 1/8" tongue-and-groove ...
