The roof work morphed to spire work. The spires on the Bathroom Yurt and the Studio Yurt were built on top of the Yurts and waited there, covered with "ice and snow," until they could be shingled (there's that word again!).

There was so much trimming and cutting required for the shingles to fit on these sculpted spires! I borrowed a portable table saw (thank you, Robert) and rigged up a block and tackle to take the saw up to the platform that extended from the scaffolding.

Here's the setup on the Bathroom Yurt. I spent about thirty-five hours shingling this spire.

I stood on the ground a lot looking up at these spires and wondering when I'd ever be done with the shingling.

The shingling of the Bathroom Yurt spire finally did come to an end...

...to be followed by the shingling of the Studio Yurt spire.

Finally, these two spires are ready for their finials and balls.

All the exterior work on the spires hardly compares to the woodwork found on the underside of the spires. This is the underside of the Studio Yurt spire. There are six sections to the spire (it's a twelve-sided Yurt). The bottom of the spire has six small windows separated from each other by six vents for the roof (these are not visible in this image; I'll try to get a picture of these).

The underside is all cedar.

These are the frames for the eight little screens Jack made for the windows in the Concentric Yurt spire. This spire has eight sections, as it's a sixteen-sided Yurt.

For more on the Concentric Yurt spire, click here.

Meanwhile, the interior was advancing along. Rick was doing the sheetrocking.

My neighbor, Larry, stopped by and commented about the complexity of the task to put up the sheetrock and how well it was being done. It certainly transforms the place.

This is the front door.

Here's a rather complex corner. There are five unique planes that required sheetrocking.

I brought in a plumber to tie together the plumbing and the heating. We had a good start on it, but I began to think that I needed a professional to complete the job.

Here's the vent stack for the kitchen sink and the dishhwasher.

The blue and white tubing in the foreground travels through the conduit that's buried in the concrete slab and comes out over by the wall, where it will connect in to the hot and cold water lines. These are the water lines that will run up to the half-bath in the Upper Yurt (bedroom).

You'll see Jack's start on the kitchen cabinets in the background.

Here's the other end of the tubing where it connects into the hot and cold water supply lines. There are three supply lines here. One is cold water and the other two are hot water. The hot water recirculates so as to provide "instant" hot water at the kitchen sink. It's over eighty-five winding feet from the sink to the hot water supply in the Bathroom/Utility Yurt.
The floor in the Bathroom Yurt needed to be raised off the concrete. This section has five sides. There are a total of twelve to the complete floor.
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Posted on Oct. 5, 2006

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-Stanley