New member's yurt plan

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Originally Posted by James

Hello fantastic desighn mith take some of your idea if that is ok, i can see putting the office on the loft but unless you are building a kakstan ger I would worry about he slop of the roof on the mongolin ger, I would put the bedroom down stairs and the bathroom and have a dryer over my washer and the utitlity box in the bedroom but you are a very imagtive person I am sure you will work it out thanks for sharing your design

Many thanks for the kind words, absolutely feel free to use the design. Yes, I am having difficulty envisioning how the space on top of the loft will be used, but it looks like there is sufficient room for a queen bed and a desk/chair setup. It's hard to tell in the images I posted, but there is a stacked washer/dryer unit in the utility room.

Originally Posted by Pacific Yurts

Your plan looks very nice. Venting for the bathroom and cooking exhaust could be mounted into your partition walls, and using a 'downdraft' exhaust fan, could actually vent through the platform and then outside. Plumbing vents can go through the yurt wall using a boot flashing (available at your local hardware store) in a similar fashion to the stove flashing. Just make sure the top of the flashing slips under your top cover valance.

A good place to mount the air handling unit for your ductless heat pump would be on the edge of the landing at the top of the stairs. This would face it into the main living space and it should be out of the way. The electric and refrigerant lines could come up through your platform and into your partition wall so they are out of site.

Good luck with your project, it sounds like it will turn out nice.

Thank you very much. This helps tremendously. I didn't know about downdraft exhaust fans. I appreciate your interest in my project. Just FYI, I've emailed with Pete from your company in the past, and he is a stand up guy and very responsive. I've definitely got

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in mind for when I start this project -- possibly two years away (I might be retiring then... but then again, I might not; it's a very difficult decision I'm still working through).