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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 noticed any movement...but I'm always so preoccupied with the darn condensation I might not have noticed.
 
I think the pics are attached here
 

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I am sorry to hear. Maybe talk let Jesse know. When mine was leaking last fall I got on the roof and put some silicone where the glass meets the frame and disconnected the opener to take the tension of. Is it leaking due to rain or condensation?
 
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 happens when it's raining. So the conclusion is for some reason this winter it decided to leak. I caulked it this weekend. But...very upset. At this point, I want to remove the skylight completely and replace it with a cupola. Looking into that now...the saga continues lol.
 
Hey Canada, what part of the country are you in?
I'm looking to go this route on Vancouver Island but still trying to work through some of the gotchyas re cost/condensation/etc....

Anyone who's had condensation issues ever try running a heat pump for both heat and for pulling down the humidity a bit?


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Not sure the heatpump would help with condensation much in winter, it would in summer though, Mine has no condensate in the winter, which is good because the drainage port would surely freeze solid.
 
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 flaw.
 
Hi. Finally got my leaky skylight removed and replaced it with a cupola, thought I'd share a few pics:)
 

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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:)
 

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yurtgurl said:
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:)
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Your cupola platform is a very interesting solution. :cool:

I hope, you will share more information about.

At first, I would know about your intention to build such a platform.

And I would like to read the measurements of your whole Yurt. Including the height of the sidewalls, and dome height/diameter.

At last some pics more from inside & outside would be nice too..... ;)

EDIT:

I try to set the pic from the posting above in a better viewable rotation:

Yurt-Loft-Gallery-Example.png
 
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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 whole dome skylight was a big ordeal where it eventually started leaking. And my solution to the problem was to remove the skylight and replace it with a cupola. Which, has normal vertical windows that open/close for ventilation. But in order to open and close them, I wanted to be able to have easy access to the cupola. So, I had a welding friend manufacture that platform. The platform itself is roughly 4' in diameter and hangs about 32" down from the base of the compression ring (Just enough room for you to climb up there with a ladder from the loft and stand up without knocking your head on the cupola).

That's it in a nutshell! Leaky skylight solution!

Will try to post some more pics!
 
Here's some pics...
 

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I think that is a pretty awesome solution and frankly, other yurt manufacturers should consider designing such an add-on. I would probably put one on my yurt!
 
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