This is a description with pics of how i built my Sami hut in wood.
What this hut has as a raw model is the hut that our Swedish indigenous people called Sami, have built and used for many centuries.
This type of building is/was also (to some degree) used by the Inuit, Aleut and Yupik peoples.
As i made it from reprocessed wood from torned down houses and other buildings this is a totaly green project.
Tools/materials you need is a hammer, saw, knife, drill, spirit level, nails, tarpaper, wood and alot of patience!
As a non American/English i use the metric system, so i had to use an online converter to be able to present the messurements in inches.
So please dont mock me for my English as i am from Sweden.
What this hut has as a raw model is the hut that our Swedish indigenous people called Sami, have built and used for many centuries.
This type of building is/was also (to some degree) used by the Inuit, Aleut and Yupik peoples.
As i made it from reprocessed wood from torned down houses and other buildings this is a totaly green project.
Tools/materials you need is a hammer, saw, knife, drill, spirit level, nails, tarpaper, wood and alot of patience!
As a non American/English i use the metric system, so i had to use an online converter to be able to present the messurements in inches.
So please dont mock me for my English as i am from Sweden.
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The most important step is to get the ground where you want your Sami hut horizontal (level).
I did that with bigger stones placed at the outer rim as a stop for the smaller stones/gravels (30 millimeters in size).
This ground made of gravel/stones is also important because the need of drainage.
Heavy rains will now float under the gravelbed and not make your feet wet.
The bottom frame that the hut is going to stand on, is made of 8 pieces of 2 by 6 inch pressure treated beams with both ends cut at 22,5 degrees angle.
You nail them together to the shape of the octagon you see in the pic.
The length of all 8 bottom frame pieces is 2.0 meters (78.74 inches), messured from the both outer edges of the 22.5 degree angle cuts (see drawing).
I did that with bigger stones placed at the outer rim as a stop for the smaller stones/gravels (30 millimeters in size).
This ground made of gravel/stones is also important because the need of drainage.
Heavy rains will now float under the gravelbed and not make your feet wet.
The bottom frame that the hut is going to stand on, is made of 8 pieces of 2 by 6 inch pressure treated beams with both ends cut at 22,5 degrees angle.
You nail them together to the shape of the octagon you see in the pic.
The length of all 8 bottom frame pieces is 2.0 meters (78.74 inches), messured from the both outer edges of the 22.5 degree angle cuts (see drawing).
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I'd build 2 of them, one Sauna and one guest house ;)
Liked the instructable a lot.
bless be well
Keep going on like this, because this is such a great design.
Chiefgr8twolf , I am a Native American (Conoy Tribe), gotta love it just like anyone out there we should all be proud we belong to the "Human Race."
I would LOVE to see some pics of your building when you start building it!
Rabarbervin.
By the way... what´s a "dormer and breezeway"?
Though i didnt mention it in the instructable.
Will fix this!
thx
Thanks