Questions About Building a Maine Yurt

[Yurtsteaders]

Hey All! I've been perusing this forum for the past few days. Lots of great stuff on here!

A little about us. We purchased some acreage in central Maine a few years ago and want to start homesteading. The price of lumber foiled our plans to build a small cabin so we started looking into a yurt. We found

Blue Ridge Yurts

in VA and were excited that they made yurts with 10ft walls. We definitely want to have a loft for sleeping to maximize yurt space. We have a 30ft yurt on order from them for this May.


We are going to make just a circular platform because after pricing out Blue Ridge Yurt's engineering plans for a deck, we discovered that it would cost us over $8000 in mostly lumber. Yikes. So I have been eyeing some plans for just the circular platform from other manufacturers. We have limited construction experience but a lot of determination. Does anyone have any

yurt platform

plans they recommend or would like to share? I'm also wondering how many footers are appropriate for a 30ft platform?

Has anyone had any experience with using these in building a

yurt platform

? https://titanbp.com/pages/deck-foot-anchor/

I emailed the sales rep and he said they would work for yurt construction. The prospect of not having to dig 4+ feet down and pouring 90 something bags of concrete is very appealing.

My next question is: We had ordered the yurt with the Reflectix

insulation

. Is that worth the extra money? Is there something better we can use?

We already purchased a Pioneer Maid wood cook stove which is rated to heat 2,200sqft. I think that will be sufficient for

heating

but I don't want to have to constantly be tending to the stove.

We are planning to insulate the floor with Roxul and possibly foam board if we can find some for cheap.

We'll have more questions for sure, but for now I'd like to cover the basics.

Thanks,
Yurtsteaders!