For several years, we have been looking with my partner and our two children for a piece of land to install ... our yurt.
I am a craftsman manufacturer of yurts and we dream since 4 years now to live there but ... you know the history of shoemakers and their shoes ...
It was not easy to find land in the area where we live. The prices are not excessive (11 € the building land at m2 for example) as elsewhere but we are in a very rural area and it is not easy to find someone who wants to sell a lot, both l attachment to the earth is anchored in mentalities. I live in Cantal, Auvergne.
But even if it's not done yet, we think we've found our piece of paradise. 16.070 m2 of land, partly constructible and partly agricultural with an ideal exposure.
We will try to put our yurt there and are rather optimistic.
Side authorization, I will come back perhaps in the detail later but we will ask for a building permit, with a city hall which will support us, too happy to see a family of 4 arrive on its commune.
For the yurt, it will be me who will manufacture it, it's still my job !!
90 m2 floor, a mezzanine of about half is about 135 m2 floor. A height of walls at 2,60 m for a central height culminating at 5,10 m with an inclination of roof at 30 °. 4 frames will receive glazed surfaces facing south, between south-east and south-west. The insulation will be sheep wool. The maximums I used at the moment are 140 mm, maybe I'll try to go much further, to 200 mm to experiment, to see the difference. My supplier, Etoile du Berger, had offered to do this test, it is to see.
Acrylic canvas, not ecological, but probably the least worst eco-balance. It's a long debate ...
Placed on a raised floor, isolated in cellulose wadding.
The mezzanine will consist of a wooden frame on which I would like to put a coating earth for the look and feel but also to allow me to erase the corners of the mezzanine and round off everything, which seems more harmonious in a yurt.
A small wooden building next door will serve as storage room, technical rooms to place all that noise (washing machine, etc ...), bicycles, etc ... and especially solar panels on the roof: thermal for the hot water tank, photovoltaic for the production of electricity, connected to the network to avoid battery problems. A small wind turbine? To see, the site could lend itself to it.
Dry toilets of course.
Phytoplant basins with reeds for purification.
Heating is a subject of hesitation.
The yurt is usually easy to heat but a model of this size with mezzanine, the heat will it penetrate properly under the mezzanine?
Answer winter 2010-2011, after trying!
I first leaned on a solar heating with wood booster and heating walls. But it's expensive, and is it essential?
I'm currently looking at a Bruno stove stove like this: http://www.poelesbruno.com/FR/modeles-bruno-fourneau.html
This one would make the popotte, to heat the yurt, possibly to recover the heat by ducts and to distribute it under the mezzanine if necessary and possibly still, to be modified with a heating coil to serve as a boiler if the need arises. Another advantage: it burns a lot of different things including chips and untreated wood chips, waste of my activity that I have rab.
So here I mention this project is that it is still in the reflection phase but more and more active since we found our land and it makes us progress on this project. By exposing my ideas here, I rely on your remarks, your questions, to move me forward in reflection.
So do not hesitate, go ahead with your comments, questions, remarks and co ... I hope that's it
Ahmed ................................................. .......... hee-hee!
) and he himself better placed than me to make one, he is a blacksmith of art (among others) ...
