August 2019 – actually tiny

Finishing the mud and priming the walls

August 28, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

After all the mudding and sanding last week it felt good to finally put the drywall tools away and get the walls primed and ready for paint.I’m really happy with the finish I was able to achieve on the walls. We have a lot of functional reasons for going with drywall for the interior...

Flexible drywall corners

August 23, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

A lot of folks think we’re crazy for using drywall for our tiny house interior- it’ll definitely crack as soon as it’s moved, right?? After talking to a builder who has successfully built and moved many tiny houses with drywall, we were let in on two secrets: use wallboard adhesive to glue the rock...

Mudding and taping, part 2

August 22, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

There’s not much to say about finishing out drywall – it’s mostly mud, sand, repeat.In the tiny bit of drywall work I’ve done in the past I always used the self-adhesive mesh tape. The appeal of mesh tape is there’s no taping coat, so you don’t have to worry about putting too much or...

Mudding and taping

August 15, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Brian’s taking a few weeks off from the tiny house to build some kayaks over at Cape Falcon Kayak, so I’m spending some quality time alone with the house, finishing the interior walls. I’ve done a bit of drywall finishing, but this is a good opportunity to up my mudding and taping game. It’s...

Timelapse: sheetrock install, part 2

August 7, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Sheet rocking the tiny house walls. We used 1/2-inch lightweight sheetrock, glued to the studs with low VOC sheetrock adhesive and screwed every 10 inches with 1 1/4 inch sheetrock screws. Green board in the bathroom. See previous posts for more details...

Timelapse: sheetrock install

August 6, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

I have no idea how the pros put up sheet rock but I’m pretty sure it’s nothing like this! . Throughout my career as a builder I’ve avoided sheetrock like the plague because I felt like it is was a gateway into a life of back injuries, low pay, and hard miserable work. It seems like...

Finishing the sheetrock

August 6, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Finished the interior sheet rock today. You don’t see sheet rock being used very much in tiny houses for the obvious reason that people are concerned that it will crack in transit. We shared that concern but after talking to some very experienced tiny house builders including one who actually dropped a tiny house...

Hanging the sheetrock on the ceiling

August 5, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

Hung the drywall on the ceiling today with the help of an extra set of hands and a rented drywall lift. We’d gone back and forth on the best approach for the ceiling, Sheetrock lifts are really nice but it just seemed kind of ridiculous to rent one for 5 sheets. In the end...

Timelapse: insulating the walls and ceiling

August 3, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

This week we filled the walls and remaining ceiling cavity with R-15 Rockwool. If you’ve been following us for a while you might remember that we already have 2 inches of polyiso foam in the ceiling, which combined with the mineral wool gives us a total roof R value of 28. Our walls are...

Insulating the walls

August 3, 2019October 23, 2019Leave a comment

We’ve been spending the week buttoning up the interior as we get ready to cover the walls this weekend. That’s included re-running the electrical in the east wall after last week’s re-frame and spending some time documenting all the framing and systems so that we have a record of everything as built to refer...