mahendra,
With all due respect, how do you know you can make a yurt for $1500us if you don’t know all “the small details”? A long term yurt company might say this $500 hardware detail is absolutely critical. Or any covering you want to last will cost X. If you use Y it will break down much sooner. That, structurally, you must use wood of this type or quality or the pressure points won’t hold.
Trust me. In the US, where capitalism is often king, a company who makes a product for $1000 and sells it for $40,000, will soon have MUCH competition. Americanized yurts (big, windowed, high-walled, no center beam, etc) are engineering feats. Materials and workmanship must be of very high quality. Designs followed exactly by workers who care.
Though I’ve lived full-time in such a yurt for the past 8 years, I can see a more traditional yurt would be far cheaper to make and to live in. If I were buying a yurt now, I might go that route. (Even though my friends already think I’m crazy for living as I do.
It’s possible no bigger US yurt company has responded because their tips and tricks really wouldn’t work for an India company who sincerely just wants to provide affordable, low-cost housing. I can almost guarantee, no America yurt company is getting rich selling yurts. I’m sure (like yourself) it’s a passion to supply more natural and affordable housing in their area.
Right or wrong, much of the exorbitant cost of things in the US are from high wages, regulations,
, taxes, etc. The materials you buy might be from businesses who also have these costs. The high wages are necessary because things are so expensive.
Best of luck with your project! Even without direct help, I think with some digging this site will be a wealth of information.
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