Tiny house construct from Aug. 2012 to Aug 2013, I did this all on my own, even as working part-time. This tiny house only cost me $5000, I reused plenty of things and located free stuff from craigslist. We are a household of four, soon to be 5 and reside in a tiny house with young ones. Living in a tiny house has given us economic freedom, and the flexibility to have fun with our children even more. We have lowered our cost of living tremendously, lowered our power consumption and uncluttered our lives!
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NICE!!
awesome…
How fast can you travel with your Tiny House?
my wife and i love the idea and wanted to thank you for your video.
I have gone about 45 with it, I would not travel faster than that.
the house wrap goes on the outside of the sheathing
Very exciting…
not when there is not sheathing… This thing has to be pulled, so it had
to be kept light, so no sheathing just t1-11
very cool design…!
Thank you so much for making this video. It’s really great to see all the
steps on the way to completion. Very beautiful and inspiring!
awesome, good work!
very inspiring you did awesome job
why didn’t you just buy a flat bed trailer?
you did a great job on this project really nice
Man, you could have just bought a flatbed.
awesome job! so how frequently did you work on it? the weekends? and how
much did it cost in the end, total? i want to build one someday, but i know
virtually nothing at all about construction. i just don’t want it to take
me 5 years or something. nice work. looking forward to seeing the final
product update.
Recycle parts, gas and water hookups, watertanks, etc
Recycle parts, gas and water hookups, water tanks etc
Dimensions? 8′ or 10′ wide?
I’m building one right now in my back yard. I’m taking my time with it and
very much enjoying the process. You did a great job on this home, and it’s
great to see the family enjoying it. Congrats on a beautiful build.
Great work!
I’m a bit confused. Why didn’t you just buy a flatbed trailer that has two
axles? You would have saved a huge amount of work. If you figure your hours
into the demolition & disposal/recycling time, even at $10/hr for your
labor/sweat equity, seems like starting with an old travel trailer was
unnecessary.
I agree. By the time it got to the part where he pulls the roof off and the
whole thing collapses, I realized the travel trailer was a lose-lose. He
lost out on a lot of time and hard work, and some person out there that
wants a vintage travel trailer has one less trailer available to buy.
I asked that too, but no reply. Maybe he is emberassed or has had far too
many people tell him “I told you so”. Don’t get me wrong, I like the final
tiny house, but he could have started with a flatbed trailer. There are
dozens of them on every CL site. I’ve helped build a few gypsy trailers and
they always start with a regular flatbed that was designed to carry heavy
cargo.
I asked that too, but no reply. Maybe he is emberassed or has had far too
many people tell him “I told you so”. Don’t get me wrong, I like the final
tiny house, but he could have started with a flatbed trailer. There are
dozens of them on every CL site. I’ve helped build a few gypsy trailers and
they always start with a regular flatbed that was designed to carry heavy
cargo.
fantastic job!
i love it and yo should be proud of your self
The reason I started with the travel trailer, is because we were trying to
build this with as little money as possible. I not only got the trailer but
also, some electrical parts, plumbing parts and so on. I got a 14,000 lb
trailer with brakes for 200$ and a few days work, and got my 200$ back when
I recycled the metal I did not keep,
So the only thing the trailer cost me was my time and work, it took about
two weeks, but I was a working a full time job also, so it only took about
20 hours at 10$ an hour that’s only 200$. You would be hard pressed to find
a 24 foot, 14,000lb flat bed for $200
8×24
We were trying to build this for under 5 grand. Buying a 24 foot 14,000lb
flatbed would have blown the budget, the trailer was basically free, I put
about 20 hours of work in to tear it down. I was the best cost effective
method, and I got some extra parts to boot.
This travel trailer was going to the scrap yard, so no one could have used
it anyway as it would have been destroyed. I recycled it and used what was
good.
Please do tell, where can you find a 24 foot long, 14,000lb flatbed for
less than $200??? Not on my local CL site, If you are able to get then all
the time, what are you waiting for, buy them up and resell because used in
bad shape they bring around 3 grand by me.
I spend my days off working on it, it took about 1 year, and cost just
under $5000, I got lots of free and cheep materials. I took my time
collecting things as I went.
20 hours of labor, at $10 per hour only come out to $200. I paid 200 for
the trailer, but got that back when I recycled the metal. So all told I
have $200 in the Trailer. Yes it would have been easier to start with as
flat bed but would have cost more. Plus I got, extras, like plumbing,
electrical parts and others.
great build. i enjoyed watching this one a lot. subbed
I built my while renting, and am now living in it in a friends back yard
while saving for land.
Nice job man, in one photo after the build it looks like the trailer frame
is arching, was that my imagination?
wow that is awesome.
What was the weight capacity of your trailer? How much does your tiny house
weigh? I have a trailer that has a GVWR of 10200lbs. Wondering if my tiny
house weighs too much,,,that’s why I am asking that question.
thank you
Just a thought: With the House-wrap installed between the Framing &
Sheathing, instead of between the Sheathing & Siding as is most common, you
are probably going to want to beware of moisture affecting & perhaps even
rotting the Sheathing if it gets bad. It is a vapor barrier even more than
an air barrier, so any moisture will stop @ the layer just outside of it.
Hopefully you do not encounter any issues, though. Looks great, man. Very
inspiring. I’ve been looking into Tumbleweeds myself.
Mine is 14,000lbs