Sunday, January 11, 2015

Starting the wall insulation

Once I had the trailer blocked back up I got to work on the wall insualtion.  We got a few siding furring strips cut and pre-drilled to help hold up the insulation temporarily.  I placed the first strip at 36" and the second at 68" (4" shy of 72" to accomodate for the 4" overlap) so we could use them as guides for the 36" housewrap.





Wow!

Thursday, January 8, 2015

The tiny house is falling down, falling down, falling down.....

After probably a week of not even looking at the house I had to go check it out.  Only to notice it seemed a little crooked.  We had had some pretty wild winds lately and I'm guessing it was mostly the doing of the wind, but also the poor choice to use jack stands at the rear of the trailer.








You may be able to make out where a cinder block was suppose to be opposite the one still standing.  I made the mistake of putting the cinder blocks on edge, not the way they would be stacked for a wall/foundation, and they are not so strong that way.

All in all, I was happy this happened.  I feel more confident in my structure and the weld joints I made throughout.  While jacking it back up I had to jack at extremes, with more weight than it will actually support, and in ways that the trailer wouldn't usually see and everything did fine.  When jacking up the rear at the corner there was almost no torsional flexing.  If one side was going up, so was the other!

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Movin': Interim Tiny Living

Between the Holidays, that sweet new Lady, Sera, and needing to get all my stuff out of the sweeeet house I'd been living in for the past 2+ years I haven't had much time to work on the house.  Here's some views of the kitchen in my basement apartment where I first W.W.O.O.F.ed upon coming to WNC.







I've much organizing to do, but am so excited to have this little bit of learning/adjusting time in a place where I've been before with my wonderful friends/family.