Recent content by Andy_in_Germany

I know that in a Mongolian Yurt the normal approach is to steam bend the poles for the lattice, but do I need to do this on a yurt with vertical rafter supports going down to floor level?

Thanks to the help I'm getting here and books by the like of Paul King and Dan Frank Kuehn, I'm able to start making sketches of our Yurt. Because I'm a romantic old softie I've taken to calling it the Aroura, hence the odd title. Anyway, the first very rough sketch should be attached to this...

So we're considering building a Yurt. Well, we've looked at all the other options for a summer house/overnight shelter/place to learn more about living off grid and the local planning laws got there first: We're allowed one building of 12 cubic metres (Think about six phone boxes in a block: big...

Hello from Germany! We're a British/Japanese family, trying to find a low(er) impact path forward. To this end we manage to get about using public transport and bikes, and I'm currently doing a three year apprenticeship as a carpenter/cabinet maker to get skills for a low energy economy...