OK, all of the following is my opinion, and is off yurts in general.
I'd leave a professional yurt 'as is'. I wouldn't invest in any of my unproven 'trial and error' ideas on a standard yurt I spent serious coin on. Buy it, erect it, install a wood stove and amenities, and get on with life.
If I was young, had a small property in a rural area, and wanted a small 'unimproved' home, I'd build a barn shaped shed say 12 x 16 with loft, on a slab, and install a good wood stove. No foundation piers 'in' the ground. I'd build it using conventional construction practice.
June 2020 I did a smaller version of that. In three weeks I built a 10x12 barn shed on my 16' d.
. Double barn doors, three- 2x3 operable windows. ~$2900. Shingled painted done deal. Firecracker red with white trim. It's a beautiful shed if I do say so myself. I store my carpentry tools in there since I'm basically retired now.
As a young man I could EASILY have lived in there through the winter with a wood stove. That barn shed would EASILY beat the tent I WAS living in, or any nomadic yurt I have ever made, by a w i d e margin. I might have to give it another coat of paint in seven-ten years, maybe. But it would be a FINE unimproved cabin without any doubt.
Anyway back to yurts. This isn't a condemnation of yurts btw. Yurts are the best tents ever invented, by a w i d e margin.
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