In the beginning of October we finished building our yurt! It was a ton of work, but a great experience. We are still working on figuring out some plumbing and electrical, but it’s looking like we can move in very soon here. We got delayed due to Heidi’s recent Barn Dinner which was a huge amount of work, as well as a week long trip to Colorado (which I included two pictures from two hikes we took deep into Rocky Mountain National Park), as well as having family visit for about a week. Now that things are finally calming down, we expect to get back in there during the weekends to polish off the rest of the interior stuff (need to build divider walls for the bathroom), and hooking up the plumbing and electric. Aaron was kind enough to excavate a ditch for us to hook up to the well water on the property, which will come in handy. Just need to get those pipes in before they can freeze, which I don’t know if they do in Oregon. I am assuming yes for the time being.
This looks like a wonderful place to stay. How much time did it take you to construct?
Hey Philip, thanks! It attacked it fairly leisurely, I'd say about 4 days total spread out over the course of a week and a half (not including the platform). We had a professional contractor build the platform as we needed to meet specific requirements for County/State codes. The lattice, beams, door, support cable and ceiling ring all went up in an afternoon and required 3 people and scaffolding to get up.
The wind 2'x4's went up in about a day by themselves, because it involved something like drilling 800 pilot holes, and screwing 800 screws and 200 plates. I also put the cables through the ceiling beam that same day, I was mostly working by myself but I had 2 other people lend a hand on the pilot holes so that went a bit faster.
The roof and siding (insulation, liner and vinyl cover) went up in a couple of hours, but was a big job as the vinyl covers were very heavy and had to be hung just right. Getting them up was hard work with 4 people but straight forward. However, getting the covers just lined up right around the edges took me a few hours by myself (having to go back and forth, kind of frustrating).
Finally, the dome, screwing in and tucking in the vinyl, applying the sealant and doing misc. finishing touches and cleaning up/tearing down took about a day to get through.
We just finished framing our interior bathroom/kitchen wall over Christmas, and it's looking really great inside. It's still very comfy and roomy. Once it dries out a bit more we'll hook up to the preexisting septic on site and fix that up, and hopefully in the next week or two I'll start the interior plumbing/wires and actually putting the tongue& groove siding / sheet rock up on the bathroom.
Hey Philip, thanks! We attacked it fairly leisurely, I'd say about 4 days total spread out over the course of a week and a half (not including the platform). We had a professional contractor build the platform as we needed to meet specific requirements for County/State codes. The lattice, beams, door, support cable and ceiling ring all went up in an afternoon and required 3 people and scaffolding to get up.
The wind 2'x4's went up in about a day by themselves, because it involved something like drilling 800 pilot holes, and screwing 800 screws and 200 plates. I also put the cables through the ceiling beam that same day, I was mostly working by myself but I had 2 other people lend a hand on the pilot holes so that went a bit faster.
The roof and siding (insulation, liner and vinyl cover) went up in a couple of hours, but was a big job as the vinyl covers were very heavy and had to be hung just right. Getting them up was hard work with 4 people but straight forward. However, getting the covers just lined up right around the edges took me a few hours by myself (having to go back and forth, kind of frustrating).
Finally, the dome, screwing in and tucking in the vinyl, applying the sealant and doing misc. finishing touches and cleaning up/tearing down took about a day to get through.
We just finished framing our interior bathroom/kitchen wall over Christmas, and it's looking really great inside. It's still very comfy and roomy. Once it dries out a bit more we'll hook up to the preexisting septic on site and fix that up, and hopefully in the next week or two I'll start the interior plumbing/wires and actually putting the tongue& groove siding / sheet rock up on the bathroom.
Thanks for all the information! Are you planning on living it? Sorry if addressed this somewhere else, I haven't gotten a chance to read a lot sadly, but I do plan on it when I do have time.
I am surprised it didn't take longer, but I don't often build things. Heh.
Hey Phil,
The plan is to be living in it “full-time” by the end of spring right now, with some luck hopefully.