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Gosh I want a yurt so bad! My neighbor has one. As a fellow New Englander, how comfortable are you in there in winter? (Also, S.A.D. suckssss)
Oh, my yurt isn’t a commercial one, it’s a homemade one that a friend designed to camp in. So it’s not designed to take a snow load at all. Rain, sure, and it’s survived the tail-ends of hurricanes and things, it’s pretty weatherproof, but– not winter. I take mine down in November and put it back up in– this year I didn’t get it up until May, but ideally April.
Also– when people are like “wow you live in a yurt”, I feel obligated to point out, no, I sleep in a yurt. I have an outhouse, but I rarely use that either; I use my sister’s bathroom, cook in my sister’s kitchen, shower in my sister’s shower, all indoors, like a regular person. I do my laundry in my sister’s washer, and watch TV on my sister’s TV. My yurt isn’t my house, it’s just my bedroom, and it’s nicer than many bedrooms, but I’m also not really living rough in it, so much respect to those who do.
Last year I did use it in some pretty cold weather. I think the coldest night I spent, it was 27F. I had a kerosene heater in it, but I won’t use it again, the heater was too big for the space and the fumes were gross if the thing ever went out. I couldn’t turn it down far enough, so i had to either sweat my ass off, open the door which seemed crazy, or douse the thing, hide under the blankets until the smoke cleared, and then light it again in three hours when I couldn’t feel my nose again. And then I had soot all over everything I owned, which was gross, so. I let my dad have the heater for the garage, and I’ll think of something else.
This year I’m going to do a better job at insulating it, for starters. Last year I did a half-assed job with Reflectix. You need radiant barrier insulation for a little thing like a yurt, and that’s what that is. I have more of the stuff this year and I’m going to for real get it set up properly. It’s a moisture and wind barrier, and then I’m going to put quilts on the inside, so we’ll see if I can get by with a tiny electric space heater {since I have an extension cord and one power strip, I looked up the amps and I can run the space heater if I don’t use anything else at the same time, and in fact I have used it a little bit, when I first moved in} and just real good insulation. I’m expecting temperatures in the 40s and 50s at night, though, so it should be not a big deal overall.
It seems to me that even if they don’t do a very good job, insulated wall hangings will be nice to have and be a great way to use up a lot of the weird hoarded fabric I have, and then I’ll feel better about my terrible hoarding… I’ve just gone through and emptied out three huge boxes of old drapes and things I got from my mother and various well-meaning strangers, and a huge section of polarfleece I salvaged from work (it had been part of a photo backdrop for a defunct studio).
lieutenantbae replied to your post: Unrelated personal notes: I sweated bullets trying…
Gosh I want a yurt so bad! My neighbor has one. As a fellow New Englander, how comfortable are you in there in winter? (Also, S.A.D. suckssss)
Oh, my yurt isn’t a commercial one, it’s a homemade one that a friend designed to camp in. So it’s not designed to take a snow load at all. Rain, sure, and it’s survived the tail-ends of hurricanes and things, it’s pretty weatherproof, but– not winter. I take mine down in November and put it back up in– this year I didn’t get it up until May, but ideally April.
Also– when people are like “wow you live in a yurt”, I feel obligated to point out, no, I sleep in a yurt. I have an outhouse, but I rarely use that either; I use my sister’s bathroom, cook in my sister’s kitchen, shower in my sister’s shower, all indoors, like a regular person. I do my laundry in my sister’s washer, and watch TV on my sister’s TV. My yurt isn’t my house, it’s just my bedroom, and it’s nicer than many bedrooms, but I’m also not really living rough in it, so much respect to those who do.
Last year I did use it in some pretty cold weather. I think the coldest night I spent, it was 27F. I had a kerosene heater in it, but I won’t use it again, the heater was too big for the space and the fumes were gross if the thing ever went out. I couldn’t turn it down far enough, so i had to either sweat my ass off, open the door which seemed crazy, or douse the thing, hide under the blankets until the smoke cleared, and then light it again in three hours when I couldn’t feel my nose again. And then I had soot all over everything I owned, which was gross, so. I let my dad have the heater for the garage, and I’ll think of something else.
This year I’m going to do a better job at insulating it, for starters. Last year I did a half-assed job with Reflectix. You need radiant barrier insulation for a little thing like a yurt, and that’s what that is. I have more of the stuff this year and I’m going to for real get it set up properly. It’s a moisture and wind barrier, and then I’m going to put quilts on the inside, so we’ll see if I can get by with a tiny electric space heater {since I have an extension cord and one power strip, I looked up the amps and I can run the space heater if I don’t use anything else at the same time, and in fact I have used it a little bit, when I first moved in} and just real good insulation. I’m expecting temperatures in the 40s and 50s at night, though, so it should be not a big deal overall.
It seems to me that even if they don’t do a very good job, insulated wall hangings will be nice to have and be a great way to use up a lot of the weird hoarded fabric I have, and then I’ll feel better about my terrible hoarding… I’ve just gone through and emptied out three huge boxes of old drapes and things I got from my mother and various well-meaning strangers, and a huge section of polarfleece I salvaged from work (it had been part of a photo backdrop for a defunct studio).
