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Planning to build a yurt in Czech Republic

Thanks! I just made the board, all the electric work was done by my BIL.
Painting the floor today. Once all layers are dry and the door attached, we're ready to move in!
 
It's some synthetic stuff. It's dry on the surface quite soon, but still somewhat soft when you poke it, some parts of it were painted 3 days ago and it's been quite warm in the last couple days. Also, the big bucket I bought should have been enough for the whole floor (according to the writings on the bucket). I'm a little over half and it's all gone. The center part has the oldest paint, as I wanted to move the stove in as soon as possible. Maybe I coule place it there already and fire it up, the heat could help drying the rest of the floor.
 
I'm no painter. I've had problems with getting oil and latex paint to dry. It's never been the problem with the paint being low quality or poorly mixed, but with this painter not knowing his materials. Generally slow drying is attributed too application when too cold, too humid, or both. The worst is applying another coat or two before the prior coat is fully dry. In that case the paint can remain aggravatingly gooey for several days, but it does eventually dry. Direct sun exposure and dry weather will cure a gooey paint job in a week or so. If that sucker just won't dry you might have to pull off the cover and get the sun on it for a few days. That should take care of it. Good luck.
 
The painted part was finally dry enough to step on, so we've placed the stove today!
After that, the remaining part got a coat of base paint and the brown paint will follow tomorrow.
Some of the stove pipes got rusty over the winter, but that's no big deal, I'll wipe graphite powder on them later.



 
I did. Forged the parts couple weeks ago, but finely fitted and riveted them together yesterday. Now I need to make the lock and such...
 
Glad you like them. Looking forward to make the outer hasp, inner locking bar and some door handle.
Off to the smithy now, need to make some nails to attach the hinges. Can't force myself to use modern nails or woodscrews.
 
It works! There are some dangs and scratches on the door, no big deal. I'll need to repeat filling and painting the door anyway, due to shrinking of the "perfectly dry" wood I bought for it.
Now we really need to start working on the stairs, the palette pile must go...


 
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Here are some photos of my today's hatch smithing.
If you guys like the stuff and would be interested to get something similar for your yurt, just PM me.

Started by making the loop:






Now the moving part of the hatch:




And the fixed part:


Its end is reduced and prolonged, then formed into a loop:


The moving part was slipped into the nearly-closed loop, then the loop is highly heated to be welded:


And the weld is successfull:


Now just a handful of nails and the set is complete:


Will install it tomorrow. For now I'll use a store-bought paddle lock, but I always wanted to try some of the mediaeval ones, so I hope to make one when I have time.
Need to make inner locking bar and thinking about one archaic door handle system.
 
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