Minimal platform for a 13' homemade yurt

[Bob Rowlands]

Cheap and moveable is pallets. Nest together, cut to yurt diameter, and cover with boards or plywood. Use 3" plated screws. Install a tarp atop the flooring to stop air infiltration and keep out bugs. Turn the tarp up on the outside of the yurt wall, under the cover. The lowest rope will snug the cover to the tarp. No drafts no snakes no bugs. Snakes are gonna be possible in the pallet floor though. I got rabbits under my yurt deck.


You can also keep out bugs snakes water by just rolling out the tarp on the ground and erecting the yurt atop it. No deck to dissasemble when you move. The seal between the cover and the tarp at the low rope is plenty tight to keep out all bugs. They'll get in at the door or smoke hole though.