Yurt Build

This went nothing as expected. Not only did freakish winter weather postpone the build, I ended up getting a concussion out of it as well. This is, by far, my least favorite aspect of the homestead build so far. I’d rather work with rocks, straw, timber, and mud.

But! It’s up! My husband punched through the straw wall, and created a hallway for a whopping $12, to get access. We finally have “bedrooms.” Well, it is still in construction, and punching through straw walls creates an unbelievable amount of dust. Below are the photos of the deck build and putting up the frame and “the parachute.” (More on that below.)

Not shown is the insulation and the inside. I’ll post those after we have this mess cleaned up.

First, we needed to build a deck at the back of the house. We never limed the cob back there because we knew we were going to destroy it.



Finished deck. (We installed laminate over the top.)



Frame erected. (Where I got the concussion.)



Since we insulated the yurt (eventually), we needed to lay fabric over the frame. Otherwise, you’d see the insulation. Pricing fabric, it was going to be really expensive and, worst of all, would potentially require a lot of sewing I did not have time for. So I came up with the idea to drop an old military surplus parachute over the thing. It worked surprisingly well.



Here is the inside looking up.



We eventually added insulation, but a storm was coming so we threw the canvas on without until the next day.



More to come! Thanks for stopping by. :)