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Forum: Everything Else 04-07-2025, 10:24 AM
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Posted By yurtgurl
Skylight

I have this skylight available if anyone's interested?! I removed it from my Smiling Woods Yurt because I had issues with it leaking. But perhaps if you're handy you can fix it? I think what...
Forum: Building a Yurt 02-10-2025, 03:16 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 256
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Permanent Yurt (Styled-Home) Foundation Help

Yes, sounds like a Smiling Woods Yurt!

Just curious, how will you make your roof?
Forum: Yurt Repair 01-09-2025, 10:51 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 778
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: In need of a replacement dome

Well, you can have my dome for free! It leaks which is why I removed it, but if you want to try to fix the leaking problem...it's all yours!

If you seal it completely from the outside, I think it...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 12-26-2024, 09:38 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Thanks everyone!!
Forum: Buying A Yurt 12-25-2024, 05:44 PM
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Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Here's some pics...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 12-25-2024, 05:35 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Merry Christmas Yurt People!!!

Sure, my yurt is 36' in diameter Smiling Woods Yurt. The walls are 10' high. From the floor to the base of the compression ring is somewhere around 18'.

The...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 12-23-2024, 12:33 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Thought you guys would get a kick out of my cupola platform....had to find a way to get up there easily...with a little ladder from the loft, I can pop up and open/close the windows:)
Forum: Building a Yurt 11-01-2024, 11:42 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 483
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Interior walls & ceiling.

lol true, nothing's ever easy
Forum: Building a Yurt 11-01-2024, 08:32 AM
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Views: 483
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Interior walls & ceiling.

how about 1/4" plywood...would be cheap and easy and very flexy...and you can paint it and trim out the seams, easy!
Forum: Building a Yurt 10-31-2024, 09:21 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 483
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Interior walls & ceiling.

Hi Cato, I have pine tongue and groove in my yurt. But it doesn't curve and it is not flexible. My tongue and groove is 3/4"...so no give. I have mine installed horizontally in about 3' panels. ...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 10-24-2024, 08:11 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Aw Thank you!!! It's been quite the project lol.
Forum: Buying A Yurt 10-08-2024, 11:09 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Hi. Finally got my leaky skylight removed and replaced it with a cupola, thought I'd share a few pics:)
Forum: Building a Yurt 09-15-2023, 09:05 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 4,378
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: DIY helical piles

I don't know if you need a permit for your yurt, but if you do...it might be worth it to ask the zoning officer if the piles would satisfy any requirements. I'm basically in the catskills and they...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 09-05-2023, 08:42 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

I have not considered a heat pump. The skylight is definitely an issue. I'm in the process of replacing it with a cupola....the metal ring is the issue as far as I'm concerned it's kind of a design...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-21-2023, 11:31 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

I've spoken to Jesse lots of times lol. When they see my phone number, they probably go running.
Well, the past three winters, I think it was condensation. But now it's so much more water and...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-21-2023, 11:04 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Now...you're not going to believe this. My skylight is leaking! I'm so done with this skylight!!!
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-17-2023, 11:28 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

I think the pics are attached here
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-17-2023, 11:25 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Got some photos of mine for you:)

The one gap has always been big...my contractor said he couldn't pull that one rafter in all the way. So that was like that from the beginning. I haven't...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-13-2023, 01:43 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

That's interesting about the fact that you don't have the opening mechanism connected! Because that is currently where most of my condensation is coming from...very interesting. No, I haven't...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-13-2023, 10:16 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Do you have condensation on the skylight?
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-13-2023, 10:15 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Canada, I think the pictures look totally normal to me! I do have some tiny gaps here and there from the compression ring to the rafters. But from your pic, I don't see any difference from mine. ...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 02-09-2023, 08:29 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Still here for sure! Would love to hear about your project:)
Forum: Buying A Yurt 01-25-2022, 09:20 AM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

haha true.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.

The humidity inside is around 43%. I have the woodstove going. The temperature inside is between 60-70 F and this winter the...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 01-24-2022, 01:05 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Sure can:) Here is my yurt!

Also, I tried another method of dealing with the skylight condensation. We cut two half circles of plexi and set them on top of the ledge of the compression ring with...
Forum: Buying A Yurt 01-06-2022, 12:02 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 61,290
Posted By yurtgurl
Re: Anyone purchase a Smiling Woods Yurt?

Scratch the fiberglass insulation...totally didn't work. Just soaked up all the condensation and I had to remove a bunch of wet insulation:(
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