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Planning to build a yurt in Czech Republic

Thanks Bob. I'll see how it goes once we fully insulate and and cover the walls. The added board may be the way to go, as I foresee some troubles tucking the cover into the frame slot. I built the frame planning to do so, but things change...
We patched the upper row of attaching straps stitching today. Wanted to finish the lower patches as well, but before we could untuck the roof cover (had to lift it and tuck it up to get to the upper straps, then we wanted to get the adhesive couple hours to set without moving the tarp and thus warping it) the temperature started falling to freeze again and we had to stop it, as the adhesive should not be used in freeze. It may remain cold in the following days, perhaps weeks. If so, we plan to use gorilla tape for temporary patches on the lower stitching and do proper patches later, when the weather warms up. The lower stitching can be reached simply with ladder, no need to move the roof tarp.
So, if things go well, we may actually insulate the roof tomorrow!
Also, the door has the outer side painted and dry. I left the inner side with base paint only, as I'll likely be adding some other wooden parts to it and would need to sand the paint off anyway. Hope to post pics of the door tomorrow.
Here's a picture from today's patching.
 
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Bummer, snowing and raining today, both at once. Not a good time to lift the roof and play with insulation.
Good news is that the door fits perfectly:
 
Your steps remind me of mine. I STILL have a set of temporary steps to my yurt. I am going to fix that this Spring. I will say this though, I am glad I waited. We have carried so much stuff in and out of that yurt in the last couple of years that would have really put a beating on a nice set of stairs. Wood stove, furniture, etc.. Keep that in mind before you finish yours. :)
 
I have some thick boards left aside for a while already, those will make some nice steps. So far there were much more urgent things to make on the yurt.
 
Looking at the door design, I see lots of 'thirds' going on in there. That's a big reason it looks good. I use 'thirds' all the time when I do built ins. It's universally accepted that classical beauty is based on the golden ratio. 1.62:1 or three by five. Thirds got it pretty much covered for explanatory purposes.
 
Glad you like it. I'm quite happy with the door myself. Need to think about the overall final situation before I make the hinges and lock. Mainly need to know if I'll be adding the side boards to go over the insulation/cover edges. I think I'll have to use these, so I need to make sure it will allow the door to work.
 
The temperatures are finally slowly increasing, so we might be able to glue the remaining patches and finish this thing.
 
I'm fine, but it's just couple days since the yurt roof had no snow on it anymore. It's still around freezing, but it's slowly getting warmer.
 
We have a bunch of snow here, like maybe 4-5 feet. It will be -18F here tonight. I am REALLY glad I am not building anything outside at the moment lol!
 
I'd like to see the entire intermountain west get a few feet of snow before May. As bad as the Rockies are, the Sierras are abysmal. I've lived here in CO since 1962. We don't get the snow like we did when I was a kid.
 
The weather around here has been a pain in the well you know. I Work out side a good bit and when i do get inside i still can not do my job because the dang water meters are freezing up big time. I am so ready for spring.:(
 
I really don't care to deal with cold and snow anymore either Marshall. But, the west is totally dependent on snowpack since we get very little rain. In an average year here in the Springs we used to get 15" of moisture TOTAL. That isn't much.

Winter here has definitely changed in the last three decades. It's really alot more like Phoenix here now. Heck we had temps in the 70s in January. Incredible. We don't have an ocean to desalinate either.
 
Good news, the weather is getting warm finally. So we've patched the bad stitching, dealt with some minor details and started working on the roof again. Insulation should consist of carpets as the inner layer (plus couple wool blankets to fill the gaps) and hemp-fiber insulation as outer layer beneath the roof. Walls will have somewhat different layering.
As usual, we've used wooden paletts to substitute whatever we don't have at the moment...this time we've built a scaffold of them.
 
We continued working on the roof insulation today. Placed the carpets and then the outer layer of hemp fiber. The openings between carpets will yet be filled with wool blankets on the inside and the area around the crown will have space blankets, for fire safety reasons.




Outer layering


Good news is, the roof cover still fits over all this, which I was somewhat worried about.
Tomorrow we plan to place the blankets and straighten the carpets, as they got a little warped when the hemp was laid.
 
I would be careful with sparks. I have to think that stuff is rather flammable yeah?
 
It surely does burn, though it's somehow impregnated to improve its fire resistence. The hemp won't really be "naked" anywhere in the end. On the outer side the roof cover goes over it, which should be highly fire resistant, on the inner side it will be hidden behind the carpets and blankets.
Also, our stove will have spark catcher installed on the pipe.
 
Okay, good. I had no luck with a spark arrester myself and took it off. It clogs up over time.

Do keep a fire extinguisher around though, please! I have two in my yurt. One next to my bed, and the other next to the gas range.
 
Heh, I declined the 'geotextile felt' that was offered with my yurt for that very reason--the synthetic material it was made from would melt and add fuel to any fire. Wool, on the other hand, will smolder a little but quenches flame. I don't much like the idea of my living space, heated by fire, being insulated with something that burns well...

Knecht, are the rugs 100% wool? I hope you got them cheap! I like the look inside. Some places also sell wool carpet underlayment. I think most carpet (or rug) underlayment is jute/hessian/burlap or synthetic though. Was the hemp insulation spendy?
 
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