High everyone. My family has been living in our 30' yurt for almost 3 years now. We have the typical lattice wall framing with a wind/snow load kit (2x4 studs). We enjoy our living space and it is to be our permanent residence for a long time. As such, we are playing around with the idea of removing the fabric and replacing with wood, be it thin plywood, cedar boards, etc wrapped around and connected to the snow load studs (might have to add more for convenience of install). We're thinking of doing the same with the roof. I know, I know, before you say it... why didn't we just buy a hardened yurt from one of the manufacturers out west? Well, we live and we learn. We like the idea of "hardening" the outside structure and doing spray foam
inside. Right now we have denim
on the walls, covered by paneling, and the floor is insulated too. We could totally do the "hardening" in terms of skill set and easability, but our primary concern is if we would be doing more harm than good to the structure. I've noticed that the hard walled yurts are a bunch of prebuilt panels put together on a circle, where our yurt is pretty perfectly round with the lattice walls, snow load studs, and fabric exterior.
Anyone ever done any sort of "hardening" on a lattice style yurt?
Any info would be awesome!!!
As is, we live in Indiana and heat with an outdoor wood stove and cool with a window ac unit. We only get cold inside when it's single digits outside. But we do go through 8-10 chords of a wood a year.
Wrapping fabric yurt with wood?
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