Wow, what a couple of days. We had put our bets on this weekend’s weather report and came up with more then enough sun and dry weather to get our first yurt up. The how-to instructions were well detailed. But as first time yurt builders it was not with out its bumps and bruises and twist and turns.
The first part went smoothly with Angi and I getting up the doors and walls. Angi’s brother Jeffery and neighbors showed up just in time to assist with getting the roof crown and rafters up. A process that started out a little precarious and resulted in Jeffery volunteering for the yurts sacrificial bloodletting, when one of the initial rafters fell out hitting him squarely on the head, thank fully he was not seriously hurt. So with the yurt rafter installation lesson learned, we proceeded cautiously and soon completed the yurts wooden frame.
Which lead us to the outer layers of the inner lining, insulation, and canvas for the walls, and vinyl roof. A tricky process, as the fabric pieces were large and required careful arrangement over the whole structure. Which like a lot of what we have accomplished so far, the longer you look at it the more it makes sense as to how to proceed.
Finally came the plexiglas dome, on a ladder tall enough that I could stand up within the center crown, I threw a rope down to Angi who tied it off to the dome and then we slide it up the roof and then secured it to the crown.
Our Flickr page has a lot of photos from the two days effort.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angimarkchloe/2579720414/
The first part went smoothly with Angi and I getting up the doors and walls. Angi’s brother Jeffery and neighbors showed up just in time to assist with getting the roof crown and rafters up. A process that started out a little precarious and resulted in Jeffery volunteering for the yurts sacrificial bloodletting, when one of the initial rafters fell out hitting him squarely on the head, thank fully he was not seriously hurt. So with the yurt rafter installation lesson learned, we proceeded cautiously and soon completed the yurts wooden frame.
Which lead us to the outer layers of the inner lining, insulation, and canvas for the walls, and vinyl roof. A tricky process, as the fabric pieces were large and required careful arrangement over the whole structure. Which like a lot of what we have accomplished so far, the longer you look at it the more it makes sense as to how to proceed.
Finally came the plexiglas dome, on a ladder tall enough that I could stand up within the center crown, I threw a rope down to Angi who tied it off to the dome and then we slide it up the roof and then secured it to the crown.
Our Flickr page has a lot of photos from the two days effort.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/angimarkchloe/2579720414/
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