A yurt skirt! We used more of the salvaged roofing metal, flattened by beating on it with a hand sledge, and cut to the correct length to skirt our yurt. The bottom edge of the metal is buried in the drain trench gravel, so any water running down the sides will get carried away by the drainage pipe. Also, burying it in gravel seems to have worked to keep mice and chipmunks from getting into the yurt through the basement, and they can't climb the metal, so they haven't been able to get through the sides either.
The ladder is sticking out of the access hatch that we cut in the deck to be able to access the basement from inside the yurt.
We insulated under the floor of the yurt with straw, kept in place with chicken wire and wood strapping. The sides of the basement were insulated with 1" of blueboard insulation against the metal, then about 6" of straw behind more chicken wire. We think that the resulting root cellar stayed at or above freezing for the entire winter, even though we were gone for much of the winter.
The ladder is sticking out of the access hatch that we cut in the deck to be able to access the basement from inside the yurt.
We insulated under the floor of the yurt with straw, kept in place with chicken wire and wood strapping. The sides of the basement were insulated with 1" of blueboard insulation against the metal, then about 6" of straw behind more chicken wire. We think that the resulting root cellar stayed at or above freezing for the entire winter, even though we were gone for much of the winter.
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