Platform ideas?

[Surely Yurts - Steve]

Frame and Floor for: Walk-through 10 Foot Yurt entrance into 20 Foot Yurt with 32" Entrance door and 32"X48" double-hung vinyl window.

[MT Rod]

I know this is not exactly a platform idea, but it might be of interest for the group.

It may have been posted here before, but I didn't find it with the search so I will put it out here for your reading pleasure, (perhaps again).

Tamped Earth Floors

Good step by step information about making rammed earth floors. Cheap and beautiful, but perhaps a bit time consuming.

He mentions specifically in this article that you can also include pipe in the sub-layers of the floor if you wanted to do a radiant

heating

system in this floor. Just keep it away from the gravel to avoid a possible puncture.

If I was going to make a radiant heated floor in this manner, I would be sure to have a thermal barrier below it, and around the edges to "keep my heat".

I got this from an article about earthbag building, and they specifically talked about creating a yurt foundation using earthbag style construction.

This is not the website I was reading, but there is lots of good information here: Earthbag Building Index

If I can find the one I read I will be sure to pass it forward too.

Rod
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[KenB]

Originally Posted by MT Rod

He mentions specifically in this article that you can also include pipe in the sub-layers of the floor if you wanted to do a radiant

heating

system in this floor. Just keep it away from the gravel to avoid a possible puncture.

If I was going to make a radiant heated floor in this manner, I would be sure to have a thermal barrier below it, and around the edges to "keep my heat".

I agree. Getting that mass up to temperature might take quite a bit of energy, so I wouldn't want to lose it.

Originally Posted by MT Rod

I got this from an article about earthbag building, and they specifically talked about creating a yurt foundation using earthbag style construction.

This is not the website I was reading, but there is lots of good information here: Earthbag Building Index

If I can find the one I read I will be sure to pass it forward too.

I am planning to do an earthbag yurt foundation/basement so if you do find the article, please post!

Thanks for the info.

[MT Rod]

This is still not the blog I was reading, hahaha, but I found it while I was looking for it. Once again, lots of good stuff here, if you are so inclined, and your site is not so inclined. I know, bad pun.

Insulated Earthbag Foundations for Yurts

Give it a look Dan, Might have the information you need.

In one of his post from 2011 the writer is talking about a book he is about to publish. I don't have time to look it up now, but you might try, and let everyone know if you can find it.

Have a good morning, but I will be sleeping. 12 hours ahead of EST here. Got to walk the dog and hit the hay.

Rod
rodyurtlocker.com

[Marshall Eppley]

You could always do cross bracing between the joist to help offset the space and give support to the portion of the floor.

[djspn]

I you don't want a wall, consider an appropriately sized beam to support the joist.

[camptc]

I've been considering a hard-sided yurt home, and I'd like to put it on a full basement. Most of the designs for the basements I've found are divided rooms with load-bearing walls that reach the center of the circle. I'll be living in this thing full-time with my lovely suburban wife, so 'we' would like to have a laundry room, guest room, and storage area along with a game room down in the basement, with a walkout on one side. As long as you aren't fretting over room division, a poured or blocked load-bearing wall through the center of the space would handle potential support issues.

[Gummery]

@camptc:

I really don't want to be a naysayer, but unless you really, really know what you are doing you might want to reconsider. "Putting in" a full basement on which you plan to place a residential floor structure (to support appliances for living full time) is a whole lot different from building a deck platform off the ground and putting a yurt on it.
Our preliminary

yurt plans

include a separate 8x12 converted shed structure to house a shower and washer-dryer. But when you mention having a separate game room, storage room, guest room...you really ought to consider buying a house. My guess is it will be better and cheaper in the long run, for what you are contemplating. And if your wife wants to live in the suburbs, buy a place in the suburbs.
Again, I don't mean to be a naysayer but...the Gods of the Copybook Headings are cruel masters.

[Jafo]

Good luck!

[kochevnik]

Hello everyone.
I am new to this forum and gain quite a bit of knowledge here. I am in my planing stage and looking for cost effective solution for my 6m Yurt base. I already excluded wooden decks since it's out of my budget to build and against the zoning where I want to set it up. "No permanent structure allowed." So for now the only one I consider is straw bales since it's cheap to buy and easy to install. I also have an idea that I wanted to share with you.

I have a question for you guys. Bear with me, since I don't have construction knowledge whatsoever. My ancestors set their yurts directly on the ground year round. I have heard bad stories though about

moisture

in the fall and early spring. I have an idea that I think could work to keep the yurt dry on bare ground.

First to dig a trench around the yurt perimeter (maybe a foot by foot?), set up a weed tarp on the place where yurt will stand including the trench. Fill the trench with pebble stones. Then put another tarp and fold the sides around the walls and then proceed with yurt set up. So I hope that during the rain the trench will capture water and stream it away from my yurt.

Insulation

will be achieved by foam mats and carpets.

What do you think?
Kochevnik