More progress on the east wall re-frame. We put the house wrap back on, rain screens, window, window flashing, and siding vents. . As I’ve said in previous posts I was pretty ambivalent about rain screen in the beginning but now that I’ve got a good flow with the system I really think the little...
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Timelapse: re-framing the east wall, part 1
We’re spending a few days reframing the east wall of the tiny house to move and enlarge the window opening. As Brian mentioned in yesterday’s post, we really don’t have the time or the money for this kind of insanity on a build that’s already behind schedule, but weighed against all the time and...
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Re-framing the east wall
Today we began the somewhat insane task of re-framing an entire wall of our mostly finished tiny house. From the beginning the east wall just never felt right to us. We kept thinking that it would get better as we added more elements and in the end it wasn’t exactly terrible but with the...
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Picking up our flooring
We took a trip down to the Zena Forest Products sawmill today to pick up the maple flooring for the tiny house.Owned by 2nd generation sustainable forester Ben Deumling and family, Zena manages a 1300 acres of mixed Douglas Fir, White Oak, Western Ash, and Bigleaf Maple which they sustainably harvest for flooring, lumber,...
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Three months in
Today is the three month mark for our build. We’re further along than planned in some respects and behind in others, and have slowed down a lot in the last weeks for a number of reasons. We’ve had to take time to deal with life and health stuff – turns out all that still...
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Rewiring the service panel
Rewired the service panel today for 240V 50A. The bump up in size is an annoying accommodation that we have to make for a very specific circumstance in our build. Normally I only put 30A or 40A 120V in small spaces like this because it’s well sized for a smaller off-grid photovoltaic system, but...
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Wiring the electrical service
We wired the tiny house electrical service today for the grid part of our on/off-grid tiny house. Having lived off the grid for over 10 years my interest in off grid living has always been just using the smartest solution available and I’m not sure there is a better alternative to the local cheap...
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Timelapse: raising the porch roof
We finished the tiny house porch yesterday, raising the translucent roof over the deck with the help of some climbing gear, the 100 year old horse chestnut tree behind us, and some extra hands from our neighbor Justin for the final lift. . The deck is a freestanding platform built conventionally with PT and outdoor wood,...
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Hanging the porch roof shade
We got the porch roof up today! Like I said yesterday I love assembly, which is unfortunately only about 15% of building anything. The rest of the time is spent thinking, prepping, and driving to get stuff.It’s nice to see it all come together the way we planned, which is what you hope for...
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Assembling the porch roof frame
Good progress on the porch roof today. It’s always nice to get to the assembly stage after spending days prepping the wood.The wood-framed awning that we are adding to the tiny house is a translucent shade that I’ve been building in various forms for over 20 years. This frame of very high-quality 1 3/4...
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