Pick up and Clean up

As I mentioned before, we purchased our yurt second-hand.  While parts of it were in great shape, it had fallen into disrepair.  The yurt's prior home was north of Columbia Falls, very close to Glacier National Park.  Being that far into the mountains, it survived a hefty snowload.  Unfortunately there was some mildew issues with the insulation, which transferred itself onto the lattice of the yurt walls. 
We purchased the yurt, knowing that we would need to replace the insulation, and give it some much needed TLC.  Thankfully, we decided on a price with the seller on Easter Sunday, and the following week was gorgeous.  My dad was recruited to help Tanner take down the yurt and haul it to our house that we are renting.  What should have been a two day job, turned into a 4 day job.

 Tanner had to build some scaffolding to get this job done.  This is the inside of the yurt and dome skylight.

The yurt exterior wall all laid out.  It looks like Buddy was a huge help that day.
Despite the foot of snow, these were our first real springy days, so the guys could comfortably be in short sleeves, but not dying in the heat.

                                    My pa unscrewing one of the many holding the yurt together.

                                                        Looking down from the dome

                                This is day two or three, I can just hear my dad saying..."oh, my aching back!"
                                     However, don't we have a pretty floor?  :)
 Tanner has since mentioned that cheap/forced father-in-law labor is nice to have!  My dad wasn't too sure what to think of our yurt plan in the beginning, despite seeing the website and hearing our rave reviews.  He is a motor home guy, so this just seemed outlandish!  After seeing the structure, and taking down the very heavy parts, he is satisfied that we aren't completely crazy.

Once we got the yurt hauled off and into our care, it has been stored at our place for the time being.
This last Sunday, being that it was a gorgeous sunny day, we decided to take out the lattice pieces that needed some cleaning and do some hands on scrubbing to get the yurt looking like new again.

Here I am, scrubbing 94.2 feet of mildewy lattice with very strong bleach water.  Here, you have free tickets to the gun show...enjoy.

In the meantime, Tanner was scrubbing down the doors.  Snow had been left up against them and they had the same black affect that we weren't going for.  They sure cleaned up nicely!

All of the lattice was cleaned and then given some Murphy's soap for some moisture=good as new.  All rolled up and ready to, well, roll!

      Doors are looking good, and will get a fresh coat of stain before they are put onto the yurt.

As always with a great day of hard work and amazing weather, we gorged ourselves on some dinner and slept like babies!  Monday morning we met the excavator at the new property to start clearing space for the new homestead.

Moral of the story:  My cleaning services are worth thousands of dollars.  I just may think about contracting out at this rate...