Yeah, you for sure can sink a lot of money into them if you want to 😆

What is the humidity and temperature like in the summer? My tiny house stays at 62*F.

@@debbieday6885 Hi Debbie. We heat and cool out yurt with a heat pump and two pretty good size mini splits. We don't have any issues with humidity, the heat pump works great for that. I will say that yurts are easier to heat than cool but we keep it at about 68 in the summer. In retrospect I'd heat with some kind of radiant heat and cool with the heat pump. We may be adding radiators to the heat mix because radiant heat works so much better than convection in a yurt. One tip on cooling, lots of modern yurts have a plastic dome on the top that opens for ventilation. Make sure that dome is tinted, not clear. Even with a tint, it's almost like a magnifying glass up there in the summer.

@@debbieday6885 62 F should be a crime against your electric bill and the planet

@@1337farm I have a 73 SQ ft tiny house that I love with a mini split. My electric bill is $50/month

So nice to read this firsthand knowledge! Thanks for sharing!

What was your final cost? What company manufactured your yurt?

Dehumidifier for propane heat...I'm missing something here. Why use propane heat.

I've been trying to find a fellow Alabamian who lived in something like this, glad to know its not a sauna in the summer with a small AC

@@pattycakesxo1758 An propane can heat during night when you are not up feeding an wood stove. If you are more permanent you can build an stove with enough mass to heat overnight, if you want to stay semi mobile or have the structure only a few month/years propane is a solution. Then you should plan for illness, you really do not want to get up every other hour feeding an stove while sick, always have some solution that allows you to suffer in dignity for a few days.

I’d skip the mother in law, but that’s a personal preference.

That mother in law home would be close to a stream. Right by the bear path.

But that would be a waste of a perfectly good Yurt.

Finally a good use case for the hot tent stove collection.

@@martymcfly8535 Actually putting the mother-in-law in a yurt near a bear trail might be the very best use of a yurt!

Wow you have much more courtesy towards petty tyrants than I do 😂

We have been manipulated into thinking that we have to accept the superstition of government permission.

@@tibo5828 To both you and Nathan, the penalties for not accepting are pretty stiff. They've even granted themselves the authority to condemn and make people deconstruct what has been constructed.

@@timmjackson I hear what your saying... I've had similar threats (from government) held over my head. I still did what I wanted to do and I'm still here! One finds a way and needs to be willing to push back. Choose your battles, choose where you will take a stand. If you don't, they will choose for you!

@@tibo5828 What City do you live in?

What about heating/cooling with what appears to be something with little or no insulation???

@@KrustyKlown You can put as much insulation as you want or as much as you can afford. Nomads in Central Asia actually put more layers of felt in winter and less during the summer. Heating traditionally iron stove and cooling used only by rich who shouldn't live in a yurt anyway.

@@KrustyKlown I've got a mini split ac and a propane heater that both work well.

I was looking into the materials to sew my own yurt. I ended up finding something called duck canvas. Would you specify what you used exactly, what weight or thickness it was? Thanks.

@@Space_Pilgrim We used poly coated marine vinyl. I don't remember the exact thickness but we also put a coat of flex seal on the roof.

Go with the 24 footer, I did the 16 foot size for a year and it's way to small. I would like to do the yurt thing again but finding a location is always the most difficult part.

You could have the same connection in a log cabin

How is your set up inside? Is there any recommendations you have to cut costs? We're trying to figure out how to get electric and plumbing without it costing and arm and a leg but I guess if you don't want to live off grid these expenses are unavoidable

@@slee7991 we don’t have running water currently so I have a plastic laundry sink with a Blue Water jug propped on it and a waste bucket under for dishes. For Electricity we have an electrical box wired up to 4 plugs that then feeds out to a Rv Plug in to the main house. We don’t have high electricity needs mostly the fridge. We have a wood cook stove and an Instantpot for cooking that serve most needs. I plan to get an RV switchable box unit that can power off batter or direct line in the future which is more costly but it will give me a chance to use solar. Set up is a bench with hooks inside the main door and then a corner cabinet that is sectioned off as a water closet for a pee bucket and washing/changing. Just washing with cloths and bowls. The flush washroom in the main house is where regular showers/#2 happens. Then there is two bunk beds with a shelf for clothes between them and angled towards the center to make a bedroom for the kids. A partition and then a pull out bed couch for adults and then a catch space for things then dining room table and shelving for kitchen area sink and fridge. The Woodstove is in the center.

Wow, so much to look forward to...many prayers sent!!!.

Excellent plan!!

Yurts are supposed to be temrorary.... its for Nomads to move with their cattle.

We’ve stayed at a wooden yurt structure in WV and it was definitely an experience. Most are made of moveable material but you can do it with wood too.

The person speaking is a salesman for a particular company. He is only going to promote yurt kits that his company sells. This video wasn't a public service announcement.

​@@AnhH88HEY MAN!!! Can i please get some advice on this??? im in wv right now, wheeling. Did you erect your yurt in ohio county? what was your experience, favorite parts and cons of the yurt? any advice or solutions to your cons?

We have been thinking about building a 2 story wooden yurt because of where we are and the weather. What companies would you suggest?

Debated an RV before we got our Yurt but realized I can fix everything that could go wrong with the Yurt fairly easily vs. technical know how required for RV maintenance.

@@sheenamac2382 That's a very good point, too!

also have to put fuel in that bitch car is enough id hate to go the pumps with that it would be such a financial ooooooof

So is it 1ft pieces of cordwood with mortar filling the chinks and securing the wood? Is the exterior just expose butt ends of wood? What did you do to finish the inside? Exposed wood or some sort of interior sheathing/plaster/drywall.

@jim yeats ours is 1ft long split loblolly pine. You put down a row of mortar on the inside & outside with a mixture of sawdust and Lyme in between them. Stack a row of split wood. The wood can't touch eachother. You want gaps between them or you'll get rot. Repeat with mortar and sawdust. We did our cabin with a post & beam frame, then used cordwood for the infill. Electrical we ran through the post & beam frame. Everything is exposed wood. Like a log cabin. Look them up on Google. They're pretty cool. Everyone thinks ours is a stone house. It looks like stone from a distance. Interior walls we framed out the standard way then used wood from pallets. I hate drywall. To expensive and it's useless to hang anything on.

@jim yeats You can look up cordwood construction on UKposts to. It's been around for hundreds of yrs. If I remember right there's a cordwood barn somewhere over in the UK still standing and it's 300yrs old.

@@jimyeats ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nJWeg6aqe3dqy4k.html

@@kimieann1975 There was one around here too, it didn't last 100. The wood rots away eventually.

Thanks Salem!

I am trying to imagine what that looks like. Yurts aren't the cheapest livable space, but they are dang cool.

I have a lot of experience in conventional construction as well, and I'm working on building my own yurt now. I'm planning to go with a treated canvas cover (~10 year lifespan) and framed glass windows. A vinyl cover is usually rated around 25-30 years. My thinking is, it's cheap and easy to replace the cover in the future. No regular painting or sanding of the siding, a fraction of the hard work, danger, and waste of ripping off old shingles. Current budget for all materials (excluding interiors): under $5k for three yurts (a 24' and two 16'). And I can build most of the parts in my garage over the winter and transport them on a small trailer to the property when ready.

What’s the wind rating on it? I’m in Tampa Bay Area near coast.

What about building a mini-yurt full of food scraps lure those critters away?

@@kevinjohnson1139 That's funny. I would be worried about attracting bears but I suppose it depends where you live.

So does my standard walled house. 😂

So the one benefit of paying an extra 200k to build a regular house is that you get to keep pests out. Seems like there's got to be a cheaper way to keep pests out of a Yurt. Native Americans lived in tents, I'm sure they figured this out.

Cats are the ticket... you feed them breakfast and nothing more for the rest of the day. Most rodents are nocturnal so they start coming out when the cats are getting very hungry. Once they start living off mice they will be total predators. They learn from each other too. So it's only a question of numbers. Do you have two or four.

They are always the most dangerous creatures!

hey Don, I'm in the same area. Benton county. Have you experienced any issues due to the rain?

@@BootsOfLeather no issues with the rain / besides that rain can get loud lol - real loud. But not from being too damp or leaking. Only drops we get inside is when we forget to close the dome vent when a windy rainstorm comes through.

We’re looking for land and considering a yurt for a few years while we build. We’re looking at southern clackamas co or Marion.. any pearls of wisdom about where we should be looking to be able to do this? We’ll be calling the counties, but I’d love some knowledge from someone with experience.

@@laurenjenkins5181 well I would start with - good luck finding reasonable property prices in Clackamas county - but maybe better chances in Marion - but I am not sure. Definitely, away from metro areas - and you may get lucky. We built the yurt on an acre which was owned by my father-in-law to help take care of him. He didn't want anyone living with him in his home - so we built the yurt as an alternative. After he passed - we inherited the place and decided we liked the yurt and still wanted to live in it. But - we are riding a fine line as far as the authorities go. We built a 24' dia. yurt because the deck is under 500 sq. feet - and avoids a building permit process. Also, Oregon uses international building code - and the yurt itself is classified as a "car-port" under code (soft side - membrane structure). So no need to be permitted to build it at the time. Lastly, we put in a composting toilet - which avoided a whole can of worms with permitting as well. You can get around this by building an external stick build structure as a bathroom / wash house. You would still need to hook into existing drainage - or get that part permitted (sans yurt). If you have children whom are under 18 living with you... in a yurt - it could be an issue. For us - our kids are grown and not living with us - so one less thing for the state to be concerned about. Take this with a grain of salt - we built the yurt many years ago - so things may have changed depending on the county. If you have not checked out Pacific Yurts in Cottage Grove (south of Eugene) I advise checking them out - they have demo yurts on site as well. They didn't advise on permitting though.

Nice!

Yep, I can relate to this feeling! I just dont have land for them all or even a single one.

And live in it with 3, soon to be 4, children.

Wood stove ,grasshopper

Many of the yurt kit builders offer gutters for rain water collection as an option. Check some of them out online.

But Jesus is planning on stopping by (during his vacation) first.

Update! Recalling an interview with another homesteader recently, I could see you buying a yurt to live in for the construction phase of your permanent structure. Locating it on the property where you will still have some privacy from the main home. Then rent it out during the summer, for people who want to visit a rural location, to recoup your costs but also add another stream of income to the homestead security.

This is a great way to make the yurt work! Use it to get a home up quickly, get to your site, and then slowly build your permanent home. Finally reuse the yurt in some profitable way. We haven’t decided yet but it’s on the radar.

@@Homesteadyshow I'm sure what you end up deciding will work for your family.

I agree on the the cost part bc people can blow their entire budget on the interior kitchen-however, getting things second hand or building your own furniture is the way to go, if possible.