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I got lost somewhere there. How much all this cost him?
If you want to read about the drawbacks, they're explained here: https://doityurtself.com/is-it-for-you/
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This lacks statistics on temperatures throughout the day or estimates on the loadbearing capacity of the roof. In essence, this house has not been benchmarked.
This is exactly, what came to my mind after adoring the beautiful first and following pictures. The whole setup looks very adorable, with the plants inside the bedroom area and i guess it could be very plesant to stay there for holiday. But i guess the winters will be horribly cold without anything that could be called decent insulation. And the whole weight of the roof (and maybe snow) is on that little wooden fence…
The stains on roofs are from mildew. They will likely have to power wash every few months, assuming the water doesn’t cut through eventually.
I’m unclear about ventilation or the ability to do basic maintenance like walking on the roof.
Wow, imgur has really ramped up the ads and user hostile UX, I wonder if they are going broke.
It's especially ironic taking into account how imgur came to be: as a simple image hosting website for reddit without ads/fluff. Now it's the polar opposite.
They serve a lot of traffic, and the bandwidth expenses are probably quite big.
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As far as i can see there’s zero insulation and basically no thermal mass to buffer the heat. They’re going to need to keep a fire going 24/7.
I spent a few nights in a yurt in Mongolia. You are correct. Our fire went out at about 4 am one night and I very quickly got cold enough that I wondered for a bit if I was going to die (spoiler: it was fine).
However, the most memorable thing arriving in Ulan Bator was seeing two different yurts on fire. Fabric buildings containing wood (dung) burning stoves and chimneys have not looked tempting since.
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Would you agree with the following sentence? “Nothing unprofitable is worth wasting time on.”
No, but this looks way too unprofitable (you can't really sell a yurt, so it's much like flushing money down that composting toilet) and very little fun. At least to me.
Building codes don't exist without good reasons. Health and comfort don't happen by snapping finger at good ideas. I would really be interesting if construction engineers seriously studied yurts.
I have to say this looks pretty nice and it's pretty cheap, but humans did not start building with hard materials without good reasons. Even without fossil energy, humans still started to use stone, cement, etc.
I guess brick has a very long lifespan, it's worth the time spent, but I don't know if it's cheap.
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The exterior shots look way more like Oregon than Maine. And Portland OR government regulations list the frost line as 18".
That's crazy. In the 2 decades I've lived in Portland, I've never seen more than the top inch or two freeze, and that's typically only for a few days to a week when a real cold snap sets in. Then it starts raining again and quickly thaws out. I can't imagine it has been cold enough for long enough to freeze down to 18" since the last ice age.