Started putting up the siding today. We were a bit slow to start due to working around the wheel well, but slow and methodical once underway.Our siding is mixed-grain 5 inch wide clear red cedar that we bought for a very reasonable price from Building Materials Resources and coated with 2 coats of hazelnut...
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Timelapse: metal siding
Offgrid tiny house build, Day 36 Brian: 7 hours, Liz: 7 hours . Installed the metal portion of our siding detail yesterday. As Brian mentioned in the last post, the decision to go with a combination of metal and wood was one driven partly by aesthetics and partly by budget. . The metal paneling is a fraction of the...
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Hanging the metal siding
We attached the sheet metal siding to the west and north walls today.These 29 gauge 36 inch wide panels are commonly used in budget roofing situations but can also be used horizontally or vertically as siding. Metal has a clean, architectural look and is probably as close as you can get to a perfect...
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Timelapse: installing the rain screen
Offgrid tiny house build, Days 34 & 35 Brian: 16 hours, Liz: 16 hours . Installing the rain screen and venting behind the siding has been an interesting learning experience for me. Brian has built many structures, but for me this is the first time I’m building something from scratch. . Going into this project I felt like I...
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Installing the siding vent
Liz spent the day fitting and nailing up Cor-a-Vent siding vent while I fretted in the general direction of my computer over a variety of tiny-related issues I won’t bore you with.On the siding vent side of things, we nailed Cor-a-Vent SV3 between the rain screen battens to preserve airflow but block insects from...
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Installing the rain screen and window trim
Spent the day screwing on trim and nailing up rain screen battens. Rain screen is essentially 3/8″ x 2″ strips of pressure-treated plywood that we nailed over the house wrap with 2” 8d galvanized ring nails. idea behind this relatively new construction technique is to create an air space for water to escape and...
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Timelapse: staining the siding
Off grid tiny house build, Days 32 and 33. Liz 15 hrs. Brian 12 hrs. . In retrospect a video of me making trim and finishing the flashing details on the house might have been more interesting, but I felt like it was important to memorialize Liz’s 2 day, 15 hour siding coating marathon....
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Preparing the siding
Yesterday we scored an impressive batch of mixed grain shiplap red cedar siding at Building Material Resources. BMR buys large lots of leftover wood from various sources and sells them at deep discounts. Almost every major project I’ve done for the last 15 years has something from there in it. Selection is limited to...
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Timelapse: Wiring the electrical panel
Off-grid tiny house build day 31. Brian, 3 hrs. . Electrical panel wire-in. When doing electrical work you should imagine yourself as someone at some distant point in the future who has no prior knowledge of the house. When you open the panel is it crystal clear where every circuit goes? Is the work clean...
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Wiring the electrical panel (Take 1)
We wired in the electrical panel today using an eight space 125 amp rated subpanel. This is still a lot bigger than it needs to be but is actually quite modest compared to what I’ve seen in other tiny houses. While I agree that it does make sense to separate some circuits and also...
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