tiny house construction & living
For every vision… …there is an equal and opposite revision. Today’s update is brought to you by the letters “C” for change (and conduit) and “R” for revision (and frustration). But first, let us speak of things that actually worked out okay and the first such thing is an experiment for the tansu stairway I … Continue reading Murphy’s Third Law
This weekend, I found myself out in the middle of… somewhere. What does that mean? Well, it wasn’t exactly the middle of “nowhere” — certainly there were homesteads and a few small businesses — but it was sufficiently remote to feel like “nowhere” more than a little bit. Well, okay, I did know where I … Continue reading Out In The Middle of Somewhere
There are just a few things that really scare me about this whole tiny house thing: Actually towing it down the road, ever (no matter who does the driving). This thing is likely to weigh about 10,000# and by the time it’s done will represent four years of work and rather a lot of money … Continue reading Terror 1 of 4
At this point in construction, everything depends on everything else, so it’s kind of hard to pick a single direction and go that way for a while. Instead, progress is incremental across a broad range of areas. Each one advances a little bit, then I come up against a dependency and have to move that … Continue reading Parallel Processing
Lots of little things going on right now, and some big things. First, another bit of supporting evidence for the axiom of there being two ways to do anything: right… and again. This time, it’s the pantry shelf pin holes. I don’t know why the first edition of them came out so badly – maybe … Continue reading Waste Not, Want Not
Okay! Block-and-tackle is here, time to raise the power center up to the Storage/Utility Loft. Gather rope. Rig the daylights out of it. Hoist. But before that can be done, something else must first be done: mount an anchor in the ceiling that can take a coupla hundred pounds. The douglas fir 2×6 rafters should … Continue reading Heavy Lifting
A few days ago, the power center arrived by common carrier. And when I say “power center” I mean this thing which is really three things. On the left, a device to tame the wild voltages and currents from the solar array such that the batteries may be safely charged by it. On the right, … Continue reading Power, No Glory
This weekend I spent rather a lot of time dressing up the windows. I wanted some simple, thin, narrow boards to make the frames but of course such things simply are not to be had from the home center, so I had to fabricate my own. Some time at the table saw and thickness planer, … Continue reading Trim Triminy
Remember a little while ago I mused about using foam floor tiles for ceiling treatment? The dinos? Well, the dinos were definitely too much of everything but I did kinda like the idea of a slightly resilient ceiling, especially in the Storage/Utility Loft, since crawling around in there it seemed pretty likely that accidental noggin … Continue reading Ceil the Deal
Our offer was rejected and no counter-offer was made nor was a revised offer invited. The seller wants a no-contingencies/as-is sale and clearly thinks his property is worth a lot more than we do. No surprise it’s been on the market for years, then. Ah, well, time to move on. We do like the town, … Continue reading Land…no!