![]() ![]() We ended up adding additional blocking, even with our 1″ T&G flooring. ![]() Depending on air circulation beneath the yurt, you could probably get away with non-PT, but why spend all that time building it just for it to rot away? Also: we recommend getting thicker sheets, especially if you’re using plywood as the only floor. Plywood for subfloor: 12 4×8′ sheets, 23/32″, pressure treated.Other materials we had to gather for the initial steps: Our lumber (rough, wet hemlock) for the platform frame cost $220 (including delivery, not including plywood and flooring) from RL Balla in South Acworth, New Hampshire. It will be significantly cheaper at a local sawmill. Of especial note: Don’t buy your lumber from Home Depot or Lowes, etc. We then put together our cut list for the platform lumber (included in the plans) and priced it out at a few places in both hemlock and eastern pine. (Note that Rainier Yurts also provides free plans, but not in 20′ sizing, though they could of course be adapted.) Sourcing Lumber Specifically, the joists here are set between the beams, as opposed to being placed atop the beams, as in some of the other plans we considered (from Colorado Yurt Company and Two Girls Farm & Yurts, from whom we bought our yurt). We looked at several and decided on the free plans from Pacific Yurts (20′ platform plans) because the design seemed, frankly, to be the easiest and the cheapest. The first task was deciding what construction plans to use for the platform. I thought Home Depot was a building supply company.Sure, a yurt could sit on the ground, but Vermont gets cold! So on a weekend in April we built a round, raised platform (20′ diameter), insulated it, and then installed tongue & groove pine flooring (for what would become the interior of our home). This is the first of several posts to describe the process and experience. "You should try a building supply company." "So do you have any 8" x 8" x 8" cinder blocks in stock?" I ask. "So I need a 1/2 block to finish of the end of the wall. When I get to the end of the row, I need a half block to finish off the end of the row." "I'm building a concrete wall out of 8 x 8 x 16 cinder blocks. I try to simplify my request, as if speaking to a small child. "Oh, I'll have to transfer you to Seasonal", he says. "I'm looking for 8 x 8 x 8 blocks" I remind him. "But I heard the other guy say 4 x 8 x 16 blocks" I say. "No, we don't have any of those" he says. "We don't have any 4 x 8 x 16 blocks" the other guy says. I hear him talking to someone in the background. "We don't know about those here." (This is the building materials department that I'm speaking to.) "Oh, I'll have to transfer you to Seasonal" he says. "No", I say, "I'm building a wall and I need to finish off the end of the wall with a 1/2 block. "You mean a block that a 4 x 4 will fit into?" he says. "No", I say, "An 8 x 8 x 8 concrete block. I tell the "associate", as HD calls them, that I'm looking for an 8 x 8 x 8 concrete block. Think of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" and you may get the idea. I need 1/2 blocks - which would be 8" x 8" x 8" - to finish off the end of the wall. An 8" x 8" x 8" block for a retaining wall, to be specific. ![]()
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