Rowan's Tiny Home

During the time between electrical and insulation I started work on the battery box and electrical compartment at the nose of the trailer. There is still work to be done on it, but honestly I just sort of abandoned it when the opportunity to work on the interior came up. I'll have to go back to it soon though, so that I can order the solar equipment and have somewhere to actually put the batteries. As the house gets closer to being finished, Willow is spending more and more time here- and is getting territorial about it- chasing away the other beasties, and hiding indoors when the neighbor's dogs come for a visit. This trim covers the gap between the siding and the tongue jack. If  the siding had been flush I wouldn't have been able to move the handle. As it is I had to put some notches in where the handle is stored and where it pivots. The top two screws are left exposed in order to allow access to add oil to the jack if ever needed.  Hard to see, but I ha...

A big thank you to Kevin, Brent, Luis, Walter, and Pedro for all their hard work on insulating the house. It looks great. - On Friday the 19th, the guys from Hudson Valley Green Insulation braved the excruciating heat to begin the insulation of the house, and then finished on the following Monday. It was pretty amazing to see the space transform over that short period of time. (Basically since October the interior has looked the same). I'm lucky to be building this on property that is not itself off the grid. The equipment in the truck requires a 100amp breaker- something my house will definitely not have.  I chose to go with closed cell spray foam for a number of reasons. 1- highest R-value for the thin walls. 2- adds structural support, which is a benefit with any racking issues. 3- will not have any moisture issues with closed cell. I also chose to NOT do it myself because for one, it probably would have cost about the same if renting one of those kits, and it is supe...

Insulation time is just around the corner. In a little over a week the house is going to be completely sprayed and ready for interior work. Yippee! Until then I'm just doing little bits and pieces and will be doing an idiot check with family members to make sure I don't insulate  and then find out there is a stud 26" on center. All of my wires are run (minus one conduit that I am waiting on until the solar equipment arrives so I can run the necessary wires for the monitoring system). I used a vacuum cleaner to pull a string through the conduit to lead in the fish tape, and for those diy-ers like me who look to youtube for a number of how-tos, after the recommended piece of tape on the end of the string (to help with suction) got stuck in one of the conduits, I found doing a few small knots on the end of the string worked much better.  The battery and electrical compartments is all framed out. Actually, it is already wrapped and has some trim, just n...