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If you've read other posts about yurts here, Chuysmom, you'll know that it can be a hot topic. There are a lot of people who spread major misinformation on the yurts. Many mean well and believe they know what they're talking about, some just can't wrap their heads around it, many just don't like changing the way their brains think about things.... but I always recommend that you talk to someone who has one, lives in one, and knows first hand the answers to your questions. And just don't even listen to people who are guessing, 'thinking', or have no first hand experience. Opinions are like... well, many things...
I haven't found a person yet that doesn't love living in their yurt. And I haven't found a challenge with yurts that good design doesn't match. We have put the office yurt up on the highway for just that reason, so people can see first hand that they work and hold up well.
Soon we'll get a tipi there at the office to be able to show people and have pow wows and such, good fun!
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Tent camping has long been a favorite way to experience the natural wonders of the great outdoors.I visited the link,contains great information regarding it.This is a very useful link that will be referenced long into the future.
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What do you do for catchment if you live in a tent/ yurt
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If you live in a wet enough area, your "water collector" (roof) doesn't have to be all that big. You could build something like that pretty easy next to the tank. You could even build a roof right over the tanks and use that to collect the water. I saw one of those in Orchidland a couple years back.
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Seeb -
One of the things I've been thinking about is having a catchment tank with a sloped roof cover (that would be more square footage than the surface of the tank to provide storage area for solar powered batteries). This would provide a surface area to catch water as well as provide space/support for solar panels.
I have some friends living "tent style". They have a couple of tarp car ports set up with side "walls". Pallets laid down on the ground, covered by plywood, with their tent on top of that. Less than $1000 and works for long term living (if you had to).
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But if you have to build a roof anywise?
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My thinking was a simple car port type roof over the catchment would still be useful after building a legitimate house, so more of an interim step. Also might make it fly easier under the radar, code enforcement wise (or at least make the penalties less, 1/2 point mostly). Right now I'm just in the planning/day dreaming stage, need another year to start implementing. I'm currently making middle money and if that keeps up I have plans for that which will be more mainstream, but I also have plans B through G, with G being only enough income to cover the government rent, err I mean property tax so thinking very minimalistic.
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Originally posted by Seeb
What do you do for catchment if you live in a tent/ yurt
Well, in a tent you could attach gutters to the fascia type board, just under the tent fly on either side. In a Yurt, just make it simple and get the gutter kit that can come with it.
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I recommend the gutter upgrades on any Yurt because they take the place of eaves, guiding water away from the exterior walls and doorways.
There are hard gutters or soft gutters. Soft gutters are easiest to clean; once a year or so you just undo one side of the attachments, hose it off, give a quick scrub and replace. Some prefer hard gutters, but there are a lot of seams to seal and they aren't as easy to clean.
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