Insulation questions...Permanent yurt in Burleson County Texas...

[Corvi&Alexis2018]

We will have a wood stove for heating. The walls of the yurt will be wood and the roof will be tin. Canvas and vinyl tarps and the like don't last long here under direct sunlight for the majority of the year.

If we don't have insulation we will at least have polyethylene tar paper between the outer and inner wall. The interior will have wood paneling eventually. We want to have several windows to help keep a good cross breeze during summer. We already have some tapestries and furs we can hang on the walls during our ahort cold season to help keep it warm in there.

With it being so hot I am unsure of what kind of insulation if any to put in between the walls and roof. I have lived in very old farm houses that had no insulation. During summer it was nice and breezy with very little a/c. The electric wiring couldn't handle an a/c window unit for long. In the winter though, if you weren't near that stove when it got cold then you need extra blankets for sure. During cold nights the whole family generaly piled up and slept in the livingroom near the heater. My wife has a blanket addiction, thankfully. And now in preparation for this coming winter while we are in a tent clearing the area for the kitchen and main house yurt, I am feeding that addiction when we see warm comfortable blankets. ;-)