Electrical box

Electrical is scary and overwhelming but Dad was a big help in my decisions. He looked online and found the Tiny Tack House blog and sent me a link and told me to follow Chris and Malissa's lead. So they have this amazing system and they have a box covering their electrical stuff on the outside of the house. Dad wired the house and then told me to cover the circuit breaker with a box like Chris and Malissa's. It was so overwhelming though, building a box that could withstand the road and was big enough, but not too big so that I wouldn't screw up my turning radius, so I put it off. Finally, I got one of the manliest of men (Darren Day) to help me with the house and he built me an electrical box. It is so beautiful. The design is pretty much a pure rip-off of the Tiny Tack house electrical box, but without the benefit of their wisdom through plans or advice.

         

Shingles

Forest green shingles

Back window

Almost done

Front of the house shingles

Shingles done and window framed

Back shingles done and both windows framed! Thanks Darren

Siding, phase two...

So the front and the back siding took a while because we stopped working on it till the summer time. I was so lucky that I had the help of Nicolle, Brendan, Derek, and Jordan to help with the siding. Looks good, I think.

I re-did the lone board you see here.

Everyone worked on this side. 

Derek styled out the rest of the side. 

The circuit box is covered with plastic to keep it from getting wet 

and the board is to hold the plastic down since some local animals

 like to pull the plastic off.

Brendan and Jordan did the front of the house.

Electrical

My dad, who even now I consider to be Superman, has done the electrical on the house for me. It is amazing. I am supposed to be able to understand what he designed and built, but I don't. Maybe if I study?

The bathroom wall 

Painted copper

Thanks!

So many people have helped me working on the tiny house that I wanted to create a thank you page. No symphony to play my off stage, I will add your name to the list as the house progresses.

Mom 

Dad

Nicolle Ashton

Elisa Ashton

Don Adams

Becky Adams

Roland Adams

Michael Hofer

Cameron Edwards

Derek Edwards

Brendan Edwards

Kenny Holt

Jordan Glissmeyer
Ellora Staker

Darren Day

Elaine Clark

Painting the loft

Painted the sleeping loft chalk and the storage loft white.

No drywall here

I have mentioned before that I am using redwood tongue and groove on the inside of the house. Here is some pictures of the beautiful walls.

Missing a couple boards

See the insulation

Insulation covered

Exposed walls

Now covered

Exposed right side

Covered right side

Deck

I was tired of walking on insulation so I built a deck using some redwood. Fortunately, George lent me a air compressor nail gun and Mark lent me a chop saw so it took me an hour to complete. Ellora has since screwed down all the boards to make sure that they don't go any where.

Putting the walls in..

So it is the New Year and instead of behaving like normal people and not doing anything, we hung out in a tiny house with no door and put in 1/4 inch redwood tongue and groove siding over the insulation. We didn't have a proper saw so for a while, we were cutting each piece by hand. It was so fun. We had to put shims on each stud because the insulation jutted out a little past the studs and it would have messed up the interior siding. As I said before, it was a very fun New Years Day. Dad took off back to Texas after that.

Notice how Christine is using proper safety equipment including gloves and a mask. Dad and Brendan are not. Even though I gave them safety equipment. Behind Christine you can see that the house is fully insulated.

The wall is really coming together.

Insulation

The Tumbleweed Tiny house workshop I went to in October mentioned that poly-iso insulation was a really good choice for a tiny house. I really dislike living in poorly insulated houses and so I went with the best insulation I could afford. So I bought poly-iso insulation last March from Z-Insulation. This is seconds from a factory so it was substantially cheaper than if I had purchased it from Home Depot or Lowes. I wasn't able to get it into the walls until December and I had a lot of help from Matt in getting it into the walls. I know it is a little weird to love your insulation, but it makes the house so quiet and warm and I am really happy with my choice.

Each board was about an inch and 3/4 thick 

so I would cut and put in one board at a time

What it looked like with a second board. 

Layers are how we stay warm.

Also, I used the rigid insulation board as a door 

during the winter. It really kept the weather out and the house nice and warm.

Siding, phase one...

Putting the siding on took forever. George sold me some beautiful redwood tongue and groove. Dad suggested I install it vertically. So we did! Some of the boards were warped which meant the first side took forever but as soon as we stopped using warped boards, we still took forever. Like 4 days for each side. Anyway, I am really happy with how it ended up looking.

From rafters to a roof

So Don put a beautiful red roof on the rafters and then brought the house up to me in Salt Lake City. This is a picture of it in my old backyard.