Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

[yurtgurl]

Do you have condensation on the skylight?

[canada]

Thanks for your response. I have to agree with the movement of the panels. I had some move on me which creates tension on the brad nails which fasten them. Some of them broke and three of my panels opened to the side torears the rafters. Should be an easy fix. Regarding condensation I only had issues one time when it was -25C outside. But my skylight is currently not connected to the opener mechanism since I apparently mounted it to low. Last fall when I had the skylight closed with tension water came in. I am a bit disappointed in the quality of the skylight. I used some silicone on the outside to fix it. Back to condensation. I had some ice build up when it was cold and when it melted it was dripping from the compression ring on the rafter side. Where the gaps are :-) besides that I never had issues with condensation but my guess is it is due to not being really air tight up there and allowing for enough venting because of that. Have you siliconed or glued the gasket between the compression ring and metal ring? Anyways I will get up there in the summer to try to get things more tight and reinstall the opener.

[yurtgurl]

That's interesting about the fact that you don't have the opening mechanism connected! Because that is currently where most of my condensation is coming from...very interesting. No, I haven't caulked anything. They told me to caulk the edge of the metal bracket that the skylight sits on top of. And I'll do that in the summer when it's all warm and dry up there. It's been quite the saga figuring it all out. I also get frost and ice build up in the coldest times.

Anyway, I'll try to get some pics of my compression ring/rafters connection in the next couple days and post them.

[canada]

Regarding the opener. It seems to be not well thought out. This is where water leaked once in the fall. Also when I had my blower door test the guy mentioned that around the opener is where he could see cold spots with his thermal camera. Did your gaskets between the two glasses of the skylight move torwards the Center? Mine tightened and moved. Don’t ask me why. Like mentioned before. Not super impressed with the skylight quality.

[Bob Rowlands]

I'd tighten up the cable.

[yurtgurl]

Got some photos of mine for you

The one gap has always been big...my contractor said he couldn't pull that one rafter in all the way. So that was like that from the beginning. I haven't noticed any movement...but I'm always so preoccupied with the darn condensation I might not have noticed.

[yurtgurl]

I think the pics are attached here

[yurtgurl]

Now...you're not going to believe this. My skylight is leaking! I'm so done with this skylight!!!

[canada]

I am sorry to hear. Maybe talk let Jesse know. When mine was leaking last fall I got on the roof and put some silicone where the glass meets the frame and disconnected the opener to take the tension of. Is it leaking due to rain or condensation?

[yurtgurl]

I've spoken to Jesse lots of times lol. When they see my phone number, they probably go running.
Well, the past three winters, I think it was condensation. But now it's so much more water and happens when it's raining. So the conclusion is for some reason this winter it decided to leak. I caulked it this weekend. But...very upset. At this point, I want to remove the skylight completely and replace it with a cupola. Looking into that now...the saga continues lol.