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Forum: Building a Yurt 04-14-2024, 11:20 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 470
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Yurt proportions & golden ratio

Good stuff. Thanks Ralex. I'm pretty sure you're the only dude I have ever talked to about this stuff that knows wtf I'm talkin about. lol

Thanks for linking Al's 'Mornin' vid TS. When I first...
Forum: Building a Yurt 04-13-2024, 11:37 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 470
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Yurt proportions & golden ratio

One more really outside comment on the GR. Watch 'Mornin', the official music video by Al Jarreau on youtube. When Al belts out '..and Touch the face of God' RIGHT at the golden ratio time point in...
Forum: Building a Yurt 04-13-2024, 11:25 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 470
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Yurt proportions & golden ratio

Ralex, check into the Fibonacci sequence. 1:2 2:3 3:5 5:8 8:13 etc. Another example. Even what is beautiful in music is related.

Way off topic. The spiral galaxy has arms that appear curved in the...
Forum: Building a Yurt 04-13-2024, 11:17 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 470
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Yurt proportions & golden ratio

GR is near and dear to me. I used the 'rule of thirds' -which is a rough approximation of the GR- in my finish carpentry for many decades. "That mantle really great Bob." GR at work.
Forum: Building a Yurt 03-29-2024, 02:11 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,339
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Window installation

The yurts I've made are simple camping yurts with no window.

I'd analyze the install videos Jafo linked and procede from that. Keep in mind a simple straightforward approach is usually better....
Forum: Building a Yurt 03-29-2024, 10:13 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,339
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Window installation

Beats me what yurt companies provide. Plus I didn't watch the video. However I AM a retired carpenter.

Making a curved top and bottom plate to fit the yurt wall curve is easy. Have a helper hold...
Forum: Building a Yurt 03-28-2024, 09:41 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,339
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Window installation

If you are talking about framing and building an actual window, you need tools and skill to do that. My advice is to buy a cheap clad horizontal slider from Depot or Lowes, and mount it using the...
Forum: Building a Yurt 03-26-2024, 10:27 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,339
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Window installation

Thanks Jafo. That covers it better than my post so I deleted it.
Forum: Yurt Plans 03-08-2024, 01:55 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 363
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Bender board installation

1-1/8th t@g proper installed is fantastically strong. Moving those sheets is a workout. :D

Once installed it's the king of subfloor.
Forum: Building a Yurt 03-08-2024, 01:46 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,372
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: DIY helical piles

I've never installed them.

That said installing them to a builders line like standard post and beam frame piers for elevated deck might be a MAJOR hassle even in good conditions like soil with no...
Forum: Building a Yurt 03-08-2024, 01:37 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 335
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: installing piping for a wood stove

^^^ I agree.

Another BIG advantage to a side wall woodstove pipe exit is it cuts down on embers landing and burning pinholes in the cover.

My stove pipe on my small camping yurts up to 16'D...
Forum: Yurt Glamping 02-07-2024, 09:58 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 427
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Joint Venture on the beach in Mexico

Write out a business plan and talk with your banker.
Forum: Building a Yurt 02-06-2024, 10:48 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,556
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Dude it's cold! Installing a wood stove

Jafo made a good comment about fireplace and woodstove hearth size.

Imo a non combustible hearth needs to extend at least two feet out from the front of the fireplace that's at floor level. With...
Forum: Yurt Living 02-04-2024, 11:13 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,829
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Full time living

I built our 3800 sq ft 4B 3b rancher, over full basement, in 2000. We moved out of the condo and into here. It's perfect. I built this place solid. Winds that literally picked up tossed and blew...
Forum: Yurt Living 02-04-2024, 11:00 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,829
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Full time living

My wife's parents raised their two girls in a 3B 1b rancher of 1064 sq ft. I was raised in a 3B 2b rancher just a bit bigger. We raised our son in a 1B 1b condo that was 740 sq ft. About the same...
Forum: Building a Yurt 01-24-2024, 01:53 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 549
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Texas Yurt Co Review

Nice yurt. Thanks for photos.,
Forum: Yurt Plans 01-19-2024, 09:14 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 363
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Bender board installation

OSB is also used for the banding. OSB doesn't split. But it DOES fall apart if it is exposed to wet and sun. So, just paint it.

As for a bigger meatier substrate for the skirt to butt into, back...
Forum: Building a Yurt 01-18-2024, 01:13 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 463
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: First time yurt girl

I've made three covers using tarps.
Forum: Powering the Yurt 01-13-2024, 04:44 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 342
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Woodstove one side of yurt, but cold opposite site what to do

Good point.
Forum: Powering the Yurt 01-13-2024, 04:36 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 404
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Woodstove airintake outside of yurt ?

^^^ What Jafo said. Blockage, too many ells for start up draft. Check to make sure your damper is actually operating when you rotate the handle 90. Something might have gotten into the pipe and...
Forum: Powering the Yurt 01-12-2024, 04:57 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 404
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Woodstove airintake outside of yurt ?

Yes exterior sourced combustion air for a fireplace or stove is a very good idea. I have that on our fireplace. It draws well. When you open the stove door to stoke it make sure the main pipe damper...
Forum: Powering the Yurt 01-12-2024, 04:50 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 342
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Woodstove one side of yurt, but cold opposite site what to do

You need insulation. Uninsulated yurts (like mine) don't hold the heat at all. About like duck hunting when it's 10f, in a long sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans. Staying warm ain't gonna happen. You...
Forum: Building a Yurt 01-09-2024, 07:31 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 433
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Installing a pellet stove - 24' pacific yurt

THANKS for that vid link Pacific!
Forum: Building a Yurt 01-07-2024, 02:29 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 433
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Installing a pellet stove - 24' pacific yurt

I suggest you contact your yurt manufacturer, pipe manufacturer, stove manufacturer. Keep researching and eventually you will get specs sorted out.


This site has very little traffic. I've been...
Forum: Powering the Yurt 01-02-2024, 11:06 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 338
Posted By Bob Rowlands
Re: Venting a pellet stove through lattice

I'm not qualified on this so not only no advice, but no opinion either. You need a 'code' stove pipe install in this case and that most definitely is not in my bag of tricks.

Talk'text Pacific....
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