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Forum: Building a Yurt 07-18-2016, 01:48 PM
Replies: 17
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Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

I got my mini split ac unit a couple of weeks ago and it's handling the Arkansas heat perfectly! I ended up purchasing a 24K BTU, which seemed overkill at first, but when I used a BTU calculator and...
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-17-2016, 06:56 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,135
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

Bob, I admire your sense of humor! My thoughts are leaning towards building an arbor in the front to shade the windows, I've ordered a 24k btu mini split, and I'm going to add another layer of bubble...
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-13-2016, 08:26 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,135
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

You have several good points. One mistake I made was going off of floor square footage. I oversized it by 25%, but I didn't take into consideration that it has a high ceiling and poor insulation. I...
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-13-2016, 11:49 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,135
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

I bought a can of nightshades, a tint spray that is used to darken car lenses, and I put cardboard up on all windows (they are all facing east). The tint on the dome was not enough, so I covered it...
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-05-2016, 08:02 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 3,521
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Grand Total costs?

If money is an issue, build a square deck instead of a round one. I let my carpenter talk me into a round deck because it would look so much nicer. He thought it would come in around $8500. It came...
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-05-2016, 07:41 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 15,039
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: 12 foot--cozy or too small?

One thing to keep in mind, unless you are building your furniture, you are going to place rectangle funiture into a round space. The smaller the yurt, the more exaggerated the curve. A lot of space...
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-04-2016, 12:15 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,135
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

Lol, Bob! I guess I should have built the yurt on wheels so I could cool it off at the same time as putting the chicken to grill in my dome solar oven!
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-03-2016, 05:34 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,135
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Re: Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

Thanks for your kind thoughts. The dome is the centerpiece and I hope to do something that will add to it's beauty.
Forum: Building a Yurt 06-03-2016, 02:10 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 7,135
Posted By hippiebikerchick
Cooling a Yurt in the Midwest

I have been working on getting my yurt up for over a year. The yurt was actually gifted to me so I didn't start learning about yurts until I ran up against challenges. I finally got the electric in...
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