My 26 year old son, Cornell graduate in Environmental Science plans to set up a yome on a farm with his financee in upstate New York, for the purposes to living close to nature and utilizing the farm land to grow their own sustenance and for market as well.
He bought a yome and is now faced with how to construct the foundation for it. He has very little building experience but plans on learning as he goes.
My question to this forum is if plans exist on yome foundation construction and possibly, how to make a yome meet state occupancy codes?
thank you!
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This is a yome
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In doing a quick search on this (You should have provided a link!), I think the manufacturer is the go to source for construction details.
Basicly, it's a tent. You would construct a foundation like you would for ar tent.
Do all yomes set the doors upside down?
Check with the NRCS
The Natural Resource Conservation Service, a part of the US Department of Agriculture, used to have plans and specs for standard farm houses and outbuildings.
at first I thought you had a typo,since the H and Y are so close together on the keybd.
So this is a name given to a smallish Yurt by the manufacturer.
"how to make a yome meet state occupancy codes?"
Your son should be checking with the building Dept holding jurisdiction over the area he intends to build in. State llaw is likely to have major control over the water and septic system designs while in rural areas, local ordinances typically prevail.
A foundation for this will not be hard, but those plumbing issues could be a deal killer, not to mention electrical.
Hopefully he has not bought the land yet. An enviro scientist would have learned to plan ahead a ways and not jump too fast.
If the "yome" is indeed the
If the "yome" is indeed the tent-like structures I see in Google then the most practical base is a wood deck, raised 4-12 inches above the ground. One could construct this with "Dek Blocks" for a foundation, but it's probably better (more durable) to use a deck set on posts, buried in the ground to below the frostline.
Construction would be like a standard deck, for which there are probably thousands of plans on the net and in books at building supply houses.
Whether/how you could make this meet occupancy codes is another issue entirely. Most likely you'd have to invoke some sort of exemption (if there is one) for campsites.