08-07-2007, 09:27 AM
The yurt that is permitted that HADave posted is a pacific Yurt.
Go to www.Pacificyurts.com and check out the process...
My Take? Well, it's gonna cost about 15-20Grand to get ... Including Shipping... Then you gotta apply for a permit might as well get permitted.
After, you need to dig your cess pool, buy the lumber to pretty much make a deck on post and peer, they say make a round deck, but why not make a huge square deck with a round elevated circle so that the X-wall can sit on? Then you have a nice deck in case you might want to enjoy the out doors...
As for centipedes? Well, it's on post and peer so I think if you kept up with bug spray or had chickens running around they shouldn't be a problem...
My own personal thoughts? So, you spend 25K to get a yurt to Hawaii top of the line with all the options and windows, doors...etc..etc, then your gonna need to build a deck, depending on what size it is might as well budget another 10K for that. So, now you got a few boxes and a bunch of lumber... Personally if it were me I'd be using trex wood; hence the 10K deck price...
Now your gonna need about 3-5 people to put this thing up in about a day or two... So, say about 2-3K more to put the yurt up, this is assuming you know how to use a drill, skill saw, level and you built the deck yourself...
So, you now basically have a shell for about 40K. Not only do you have a shell, but you got a ROUND shell where you gonna have to buy or get custom made cabinets to fit a round home... Now you will also have to get creative about making walls and such since... Well, your gonna need at least a bathroom and maybe a bedroom... You can't just make any walls since there really isn't anything that will support them from the top...
My point is, unless you really like the look, and love the sound of rain hitting a tarp like roof... and having roll up vinyl windows Lot's of windows = ventilation...
I'd take my 50 - 70 grand to build a yurt to turn key (depending how much work you do yourself) Remember you can't do plumbing or electrical unless your going unpermitted... to build a traditional small 800 SQ FT stick built home... Where you can have sliding glass doors and big windows, metal roof, real walls, etc...etc... for about the same cost to maybe even cheaper cost.
Two other draw backs are gutters for catching rain must be fun... Yeah they make em but I'd imagine it would be difficult to install. The other would be expansion... More easy to expand a stick built then a yurt, you just can't punch holes through the walls.
Good Luck! Something to think about!
If you do a yurt, let me know would be interested in checking it out.
Edited by - ericlp on 08/07/2007 14:01:26
Go to www.Pacificyurts.com and check out the process...
My Take? Well, it's gonna cost about 15-20Grand to get ... Including Shipping... Then you gotta apply for a permit might as well get permitted.
After, you need to dig your cess pool, buy the lumber to pretty much make a deck on post and peer, they say make a round deck, but why not make a huge square deck with a round elevated circle so that the X-wall can sit on? Then you have a nice deck in case you might want to enjoy the out doors...
As for centipedes? Well, it's on post and peer so I think if you kept up with bug spray or had chickens running around they shouldn't be a problem...
My own personal thoughts? So, you spend 25K to get a yurt to Hawaii top of the line with all the options and windows, doors...etc..etc, then your gonna need to build a deck, depending on what size it is might as well budget another 10K for that. So, now you got a few boxes and a bunch of lumber... Personally if it were me I'd be using trex wood; hence the 10K deck price...
Now your gonna need about 3-5 people to put this thing up in about a day or two... So, say about 2-3K more to put the yurt up, this is assuming you know how to use a drill, skill saw, level and you built the deck yourself...
So, you now basically have a shell for about 40K. Not only do you have a shell, but you got a ROUND shell where you gonna have to buy or get custom made cabinets to fit a round home... Now you will also have to get creative about making walls and such since... Well, your gonna need at least a bathroom and maybe a bedroom... You can't just make any walls since there really isn't anything that will support them from the top...
My point is, unless you really like the look, and love the sound of rain hitting a tarp like roof... and having roll up vinyl windows Lot's of windows = ventilation...
I'd take my 50 - 70 grand to build a yurt to turn key (depending how much work you do yourself) Remember you can't do plumbing or electrical unless your going unpermitted... to build a traditional small 800 SQ FT stick built home... Where you can have sliding glass doors and big windows, metal roof, real walls, etc...etc... for about the same cost to maybe even cheaper cost.
Two other draw backs are gutters for catching rain must be fun... Yeah they make em but I'd imagine it would be difficult to install. The other would be expansion... More easy to expand a stick built then a yurt, you just can't punch holes through the walls.
Good Luck! Something to think about!
If you do a yurt, let me know would be interested in checking it out.
Edited by - ericlp on 08/07/2007 14:01:26