Oregon Yurtworks

Frequently Asked Questions

Oregon Yurtworks serves the Oregon coast, the state of Oregon, and beyond.

1. Why choose Oregon Yurtworks?
Oregon Yurtworks has been in business building our yurts exclusively since 1982. That's over twenty five years of experience with the designing, the application and the installation of round homes. We are not new to this idea or this style of building.

2. What do the prices reflect on your website?
What you get in an Oregon Yurtworks package is a completely prefabricated and pre-finished exterior shell. This professionally prepared package comes complete with fully assembled floors, walls and roof panels. Specifically, the floors are preassembled in large panels that are pre-insulated. The walls are complete to the outside-pre-stained cedar siding and windows already installed. The ceiling/roof package is not only pre-fabricated and pre-finished but also comes pre-insulated and pre-roofed in most cases. Besides all of these major components, we make sure that all of the trim, hardware and everything else you will need to setup this exterior shell is included in your package. What you are left with are the site-related items and all of the systems that are necessary to complete any home. That includes the foundation, utilities, interior walls, plumbing, electrical, heating, cabinets, etc.

3. Can you create covered decks with your yurt structures?
Covered porches are a cinch with almost any yurt structure. Built along the same lines as our wings, these covered porches include the pre-assembled, trapezoidal-shaped deck panels and then a corresponding uninsulated roof structure that covers the deck. These covered porches can be as few or as many as you desire, placed anywhere around the yurt. The only limiting factor in their application is having a tall enough wall in the yurt themselves to accommodate the additional roof pitch these covers add.

4. How does Oregon Yurtworks figure out the shipping costs?
We try to ship our homes by the most economical means on each job. Once we know the size, details and configuration of your home, we will research all of the possible methods of delivering this structure to you and will provide you a quote.

5. Do you have a list of approved contractors in my area?
We have compiled a list of contractors in different areas where yurts have been purchased. We continually build in new areas with new contractors.

6. What is a wing?
These are additional pre-fabricated sections radiating outward from the yurt and are trapezoidal in shape. One common misconception is that one wing is not necessarily one room. You can arrange multiple wings together to form bedrooms & bathrooms, perhaps three wings, in any size, linked together.

7. Does Oregon Yurtworks offer financing?
Please visit our Financing Page on our website. Once you have submitted your information, we submit it to American Log Mortgage for you to become prequalified for financing.

8. What's the difference between canvas yurts and Oregon Yurtworks' yurts?
Canvas yurts do not appreciate like a typical home would. Our homes are built with standard materials-canvas yurts are built like a tent. We meet and exceed today's building codes, they do not. We are fully insulated to current industry energy-efficient standards-they use a simplified, non-proven R-value roll product. We have real glass windows-they have wavy vinyl with a lattice work grid on top of that. We are fully insurable and banks will finance these homes-canvas yurts can not make the same claim. Ultimately, we are everything and more that you look for in a conventional home and the canvas yurts are an elaborate camping structure.

9. Can you add a yurt onto an existing home?
Yes you can, with the use of a site-built connector. The yurt addition would need to be designed so that you have enough head room to go from the existing part of the house into the new part.

10. What type of wood do you use to build yurts?
Oregon Yurtworks uses Douglas fir for our framing timbers and western cedar for the siding and the ceilings.

11. What wind speed and snow load ratings are available for your structures?
Every one of our yurt homes is engineered for your local building codes and site-specific requirements, such as snow loads, seismic, wind loads, exposure and soil bearing pressure.

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