Skirting ideas for round structure

[jgessentials]

Hello,
I would love to get suggestions on how you would skirt this yurt on a raised platform. The intention is to keep the yurt floor warmer and prevent rodents and especially snakes from making this area their home.

Thank you very much!!

 

[AC Power]

Interesting project....looks nice....I had to "Google" the word "yurt".

Anyways, this is a bit tougher. I gave it some thought, but with esthetics in mind. While there are options of products you could skirt the yurt's & deck's floor with, they would look bad.

Here is what you might want to consider:
1) dig a trench around the perimeter of the vert and deck where you want the base of the skirting.
2) form (used cedar or weather-treated wood) a vertical frame in which to mount future plywood skirting
3) cut your strips of weather-treated plywood (length is 8', width is HIGHT of SKIRT). Skirt should go 10-12" below the surface to keep rodents from too easily digging beneath.
4) wet/soak plywood strips, and begin to screw them onto the frame. The wet plywood will permit it to flex. It'll dry in place. This could take a while.
5) Staple black paper, wire mesh the plywood, and apply stucco with texture to suite. Stucco can be colored to suite.

 

[piglet11]

Rats just love to get under raised structures.
Can't speak for snakes.
Rats will chew through anything until all their teeth break.
I would put a perimeter "fence" of chicken wire or better still, welded mesh, all the way round and bury it another 12" down.
Invest in a good terrier rat catcher for good measure.