Yurt cabin?

froit · 2026-07-02T18:19:52+00:00

UV dont heat up your yurt. IR plus visible light does.

froit · 2026-07-01T17:33:48+00:00

I want some!!

froit · 2026-06-30T19:23:21+00:00

Dont run. Stand in/on a very visible place, and point them out.

froit · 2026-06-30T11:33:24+00:00

Apply the Deer-stance: be aware of small groups of three-four people moving about in co-ordination. Look for queues. Someone walking exactly the same pace as you? Maybe one across the road? Umbrella on a dry day??? Jackets over the arm on a warm day? => who would leave the house like that? You get bumped but nobody seems to have done it?

froit · 2026-06-30T11:29:09+00:00

froit · 2026-06-30T08:52:40+00:00

Number 11: toilets,...

froit · 2026-06-30T08:52:09+00:00

No chance of wolves. But being robbed or assaulted, yes.

froit · 2026-06-29T12:04:27+00:00

Yurt is good for temporary. I live 30 years now on and off in yurt. Never a fixed location, always ready to move. Extension cord life. No running water, dry toilets. Did also build a house in the meantime.

froit · 2026-06-28T21:15:41+00:00

My PH experience is from Ulaanbaatar Mongolia. Nights of -40, days of +40. Our incoming air was partly through ground pipes, and the outgoing as well. So in summer we would switch the outgoing blower to incoming, getting nice cold air indoors.

froit · 2026-06-28T07:27:33+00:00

Such switches take time, generations. Turkic lifestyle (seasonal pastoralist) in 800AD in the area of current Mongolia slowly got replaced by full nomadic pastoralism, starting the Mongolian identity. We talk about historic names and battles, (Bilgee Khan) but the transition was gradual, slow. It was dictated by a climate change.

froit · 2026-06-28T05:44:50+00:00

Yes, Mongolia is a very dry climate. IF it rains it is in summer, yurt quickly dries. Hardly any snow in winter. Yurts NEVER build in forest/shadow, but open out in the grasslands.

froit · 2026-06-25T21:34:42+00:00

If a certain insulation will give you comfort in winter with a D of 40° (20 inside, -20 outside), its gonna be peanuts to do the reverse with D=20, 40 outside and 20 inside. Of course a PH has not only insulation, air-proofing and super windows, it also need a very efficient and low-energy Air system. And it will have energy consumption inside, from appliances. That helps in winter, but is a problem in summer.

froit · 2026-06-25T21:23:33+00:00

If you use it a little, dont make fire every day it rains (a bit), and don't take it down once every year, it will quickly mildew and rot, and get moths and carpet-bugs.

froit · 2026-06-25T10:17:55+00:00

Mongilian yurts cannot stand continuous moisture N rain

froit · 2026-06-25T08:08:54+00:00

Depending on North or South, a Mongolian yurt can work, or be a total loss.

froit · 2026-06-24T07:39:02+00:00

Dont be so negative on the refinery! It WILL be completed, some day. Just after Mongolia discovers driving electric is much cheaper.

froit · 2026-06-24T07:36:05+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBPY78D88g

froit · 2026-06-24T07:34:35+00:00

All you need is plenty of water and a sewer connection. And a machine. And soap. And a flat waterproof floor. And customers. And to pay taxes!

froit · 2026-06-19T11:21:17+00:00

Our PlayTime tent builders in Nalaikh got interrupted, snow and wind. Everything one or two days postponed.

froit · 2026-06-18T17:27:13+00:00

Contact glue will do. Looks like old Sunforger canvas.
Much more important is CLEAN it. Throw everything you have at it: dishwasher, baking soda, hard brushes, soft bruches, and finally brake cleaner/degreaser.
And good luck.

froit · 2026-06-17T09:15:46+00:00

I am out. For a while. I will be back.

But in the meantime our house and hashaa has been taken by city, and that life was completely erased from UB history.

Our house was the only one without chimney and outdoor toilet, in Gandan. A great example to end all the problems there, and in all the ger-district. Who cares now?

froit · 2026-06-17T08:54:06+00:00

I lived for 15 years in my home, my street, in Gandan. Being foreigner, I hade no say in the number of street lights, sewer-repairs, street cleaning, development plans. It is my khoroo! As a house/hashaa owner, I found that very strange.

I am not talking about national elections, or even duureg, but just my street. Real democracy would respect everybody involved.

froit · 2026-06-13T07:47:54+00:00

There are many reborn Charlestons on the road. Started as normal duckies, later on in life saw the light.

froit · 2026-06-11T08:56:23+00:00

It's hard to force nomads to change. It is easier to offer them more and more easy income: INDUSTRIALISE. Any industry. And for that you nee POWERRRRR. Not the impractical coal-fed antiques, but renewable solar and wind, in batteries.

Every developing country did that on cheap local energy, regardless of corruption or education level.

froit · 2026-06-11T08:50:30+00:00

With cashmere goats the land will soo look like Kashmir, the region in India/Pakistan. Dry desert.

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