So Much Wood!
90 1x2 furring strips & 30 2x2 furring strips, The workers at Lowes looked at me like I had a second head because they had to get the forklift and open another pallet, Bonus points to those guys for making sure the bundles we loaded were straight and not hockey sticks!
if you're going to build one yourself I would recommend getting all the wood at one time as at Lowes there was a discount when you bought in bulk, it may only be 10
¢ but when you're on a budget every bit helps.
Also visited a family friend today who is a Master Upholsterer who's offered to run all the seams of our canvas because he's got no jobs lined up this winter. I will need to find something excellent to give him in thanks. I was worried that my other Seamstress wouldn't have room to sew the hem runs. the outer skin is 36' might be hard to do in an apartment, but we'll see.
the yurt calculator does everything in metric so there's a lot of conversion involved, gladly they have a converter on the page so not a lot of back and forth. Here is the picture of the yurt the site generates. I am going between what's available on the calculator site
Here and the helpful but not in-depth blog of
TheDelmerYurt many interlinked yurt websites aren't active anymore so I'm hoping our experiences highlight how to do things.
while not an exact picture of how the roof will look this shows the way in which the Canvas will be cut to make a circle. the numbers right now are slightly off as they don't have the seam allowance added in and the overhang.
On this Black Friday we also picked up a paint sprayer to make the painting of all the wall slats, roof poles and the ring a lot easier.
As it stands we have all the materials necessary to build this Yurt,
now we begin assembly.
As we're building a yurt now we have backed away from the Teardrop project for now, leaving it as a flat utility trailer that can either haul the Yurt or we put the yurt on top of the car.
