It Looks Like a House

It has been a couple weeks without an update, but we have made some serious progress and shit's getting exciting!

We finished the entire roof, which ended up being pretty quick and easy. We used red metal sheet roofing and have made some strides with prepping the door and windows with paint. Some house wrapping has gone up and we have successfully enclosed one wheel well so that it is weather proof and no water can escape up into the house through it. 

Finally, we made some big deal purchases which include the solar panels, on-demand tankless hot water heater, water pump, batteries, propane wall heater, and water storage containers. My brother and friend are coming down next weekend to help install the whole electrical system, and we hope to receive some much needed help from local friends as well! Should be a fun weekend and give us a real boost in motivation to make this house into a home before the snow falls.

We just recently completed building the one and only interior wall that we will have in the tiny house. It will be the wall that separates the bathroom from the kitchen and living room, and also doubles as our utility closet. We might even fit some drawers in that structure for clothes. Check out the progress-to-date below!!

On a side note, I promise to give more details once the project has slowed down a little bit. Work and life and this project does not leave much time for blogging, and I've been slacking in the amount of detail I was hoping to give when I started this thing. Hoping that everyone enjoys the progress photos for now and I can add much more detail later on! 

 Yellow fascia!

Utility closet and bathroom

Top view

We Have A Roof!

Like I mentioned in our last post, we recorded a video of the method we used for the loft roof, which was WAY easier than what we were attempting for the first section of roofing. I would love to put those videos up, but alas, I have not taken the time to upload them yet. I was waiting to post this entire update for those videos, but after a week of NOT doing that, I figured that this needs to be published already!!! Check out our progress from like a week and a half ago below. I will try and get another post published quickly (in the next few days) of the progress that we made from last week up until today. For now, enjoy what I wrote over a week ago!

Well it's been a slower week because of how involved the roof building is, but we have finally finished putting up all our roof rafters, and OSB. After pushing through the last few weeks to get the house water proof-ish, we now feel like we can breath a little bit and take our time. We went to Yellowstone over the weekend to meet up with Michele's brother and his girlfriend for some camping (wet camping, to be exact). It was a nice break in the project to get away and be in the mountains.

Now back to the Tiny House! There's not too much to report because most of our process was explained in the previous post. The only news I would say is that we approached the loft roof in a very different fashion than we approached the first floor roofing.

This picture shows the angle we wanted to use on the loft rafters (front rafter) and the one we ended up having to use (back rafter) which is a much shallower pitch than we had originally intended. If we wanted to go with the 3/12 pitch we would not have been able to get any overhang. The pitch ended up being something like 11 or 13 degrees...around there. Not sure what that is as a ratio.

The loft floor being framed out

Loft floor is framed and sheathed. Now for framing the walls.

More loft wall framing

OSB plywood to sheath over the framing

And we have a roofed loft!! I was going to be working a 12 hour shift at work the next day so Jon put some OSB plywood onto the roof ahead of time (sitting on those pieces of 2x4) so that he could do some sheathing while I wasn't there.