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materials, and start clearing your site, if you haven’t already. You can’t technically start building until you have an approved building permit, but you can do everything up to that first nail! If you aren’t living on the property yet, think about how you will store your tools and materials, you don’t want them to walk off!
    Yurt itself:
    OK, so you’re committed. Have you put down your deposit? You’re just waiting on your permit now, so get the yurt ball rolling if you haven’t already. We were working with a smaller company, so they were able to get our yurt in and out within a month. That might not be the case for larger companies with more customers, or perhaps they can get it done even faster since they have more employees! Hopefully you have the answer to that for your own project, and have timed it out accordingly.
    Furnishings & Appliances:
    Start shopping deals and promotions. If you have a place to store your appliances, you might consider getting them now. One issue with ordering too far in advance - if your appliance doesn’t fit or work in the yurt for some reason, if you ordered too far ahead, you might have missed your return window. We had to return two items, both because they wouldn’t work in the yurt plumbing plan. A plan we only had in the last month of building. No way we could have known those items wouldn’t work.
    STEP THREE: BUILDING
    Land:
    How’s it going? Do you have electricity at your site now? If you don’t have a well or septic, is it being dug and laid in yet?
    Building permit:
    Do you have it yet? No? Start following up, politely! Let the inspectors office know about your timeline and any deadlines you’re hoping to meet. Remember - BE NICE ! If you do have it, congrats…let the building commence!!
    Building:
    Get your contractor going, or if you’re DIYing the deck, get yourself pumped. As soon as this deck is up, you can get the yurt on it! And then it’s only a few small steps before you’ll be LIVING in a yurt. The boring part is just about done, now comes the hard work part. So, build build build! Use every spare second and make use of good weather.
    Yurt:
    Have your scheduled delivery date yet? Follow up with the yurt company, make sure they give you an estimate. If the building isn’t coming along as quickly as you hoped (which is what happened to us, by several months, but our deck is SOLID , so it’s worth it), make sure they’ll hold the yurt. If not, figure out storage for the yurt. Once the deck starts to LOOK like a deck, plan a yurt raising party with friends and family. Having a few extra people around on yurt raising day is not only helpful, it’s fun!
    Flooring:
    It’s easiest to put this down RIGHT BEFORE you raise your yurt. But beware of scratches, dings, dirt and more. We used smooth, high quality plywood for our “finished” floor, with one coat of poly. They’ve gotten filthy since the interior wall took longer than planned ( noticing a trend??? ), and we were building during a wet winter. You should have seen the mud we dealt with on moving weekend. Suffice to say, this probably won’t end up being our final flooring choice - but who knows, in the spring, we might be able to sand and poly a few more times and have it be beautiful.

    Furnishings & Appliances:
    If you haven’t already, start ordering your appliances. We had to buy ALL of ours since this is our first home. It ain’t cheap. We bought ours from Lowes and Home Depot mainly, and sprung for delivery on anything we could. Again, we were short on time, but these choices blew our budget into smithereens. Craigslist, friends/family that are getting rid of appliances, etc are great second hand options.

    STEP FOUR: YURT RAISING!!!!!

    STEP FIVE: INTERIORS
    Land:
    You should be full steam ahead with all of your utilities at this point. If you’re not, start hassling people. You can’t have your final inspection till you have working utilities, so don’t let this