Construction shirts have been donned, we are ready to build!

We are half way done with the first layer of the floor, family and friends!

This weekend has been a very productive weekend.  We were hoping to get the whole first layer done by the end of the weekend, but we need to take time away from the trailer and spend it with family and enjoy the weather. We look at the weather everyday and when it's nice, we try to get to the trailer to get something done.

I made Travis take lot's of pictures and I took a lot myself.  All day today I've been using the word "giddy", because that's exactly how I've been feeling. I'm so happy that we are starting the construction process of everything. It's becoming more and more real.

Hey look! I'm finally getting to do something!!

(We forgot to add the two pictures above to our previous post)

It took a little bit to figure out how to lay down the Tyvek House Wrap, but we got it done!

Next step was to remove this nasty ass tar!

Getting there!

Look at that shiny!

We had to put a bunch of heavy stuff on the plywood to make sure it didn't run away

Thanks for staying up to date on our adventure!

Is that a floor I see??

Friends and family, we've begun building! It won't be long now until we have the frame up!!

We understand this might not be super exciting to some of you, but it is to us. This is a huge accomplishment for us! Check out the photos below if you're interested in our progress :)

For those of you interested in how, we had a very good friend of ours come up and give us some advice on how to prep the floor. We got some plywood, which we'll lay on top of some house wrap that will keep the plywood dry, then nail the plywood into the wood beams we have installed.

After this, we'll have to lay a grid down for the actual floor and insulation, install the insulation, then place the final layer of plywood to complete the process of preping the floor.

 

Glasses on ;)

 

               

 

Hey everybody! I just wanted say hi on this post and that as Travis stated before, we're super excited about the first layer of the floor getting put down.

I'm hoping we're done with demolition stage, besides cutting the roof, windows and door. Which I'm super happy about!

I'm also really excited about covering these stupid metal studs on the floor... Unfortunately, Travis fell through one yesterday and he has some pretty nasty bruises on his leg from it... He also hit his finger with the hammer and his nail is black and blue, poor thing! :(

So as you can tell I want this thing covered in wood so there's no more slipping through and having to really watch your step....
Every time we're at the trailer I tell Travis that all I want is stairs that lead up to the trailer and a floor.... That's all I want right now because we're still having to climb from the side with the big opening.

I hope everyone is enjoying these posts... It's still not as exciting, but stay tuned because it's about to get really exciting putting everything together! Once we get the drywall up, I'm sure everybody will be flipping their cookies!

Love you all!
The Tiny House Couple :)

Long time no talk

Hellllllooooo............. it's us!
(Comment or share, if you get the reference ;) )


It's been a while since we've posted. We have been working on the trailer every weekend when the weather is nice. There's a lot that we've finished. For example drawing on the metal, where the windows will be going.  I do not have a picture to show you guys, because it's too hard to see and it's not that exciting. 

Then we finished cutting all the screws and nails that were on the metal floor stud things. (I'm sure Travis knows the technical term, I call them the Death trap. I hate walking in the trailer without a floor.)

Then we finished filling in ALL of the tiny holes on the walls.

After that we finished reinforcing some of the Death traps with wood so that the floor is more stable.  That took longer than I thought, and we had to stop on one day and come back the next, which tested my patience real quick. But that's ok, that's going to happen a lot.

Now for the most exciting news!!!!!

We got wood and house wrap for the floor!

Which means we are on our way to starting construction!!

Here's some pictures:

Travis working hard

Travis working even harder, cutting wood :)

I do help him most of the time, but somebody has to be the one to take the pictures ;)

Us taking a break to keep the romance alive :)

Me pointing out the Death traps that are done being reinforced :)

(You have no idea how excited I am to have a floor!)

Here's all the wood and house wrap that we will be using for the floor. 

There's was an extremely nice guy that helped us load all the plywood into the Tahoe that we used to bring the wood home.  (This is for travis: I should of asked him if we could get a picture with him and tell him about our blog. DARN)

Thanks everyone for reading our blog and always asking us about how it's coming along.

I will be doing another blog post soon really explaining why we're doing this.

I think we've only mentioned it once and that was in a previous post.

If anybody knows which post that is, let me know, that would save me time to look for it!

Stay tuned for our next post and more pictures of the construction of the floor :)

Long Time No Talk

Hellllllooooo............. it's us!
(Comment or share, if you get the reference ;) )


It's been a while since we've posted. We have been working on the trailer every weekend when the weather is nice. There's a lot that we've finished. For example drawing on the metal, where the windows will be going.  I do not have a picture to show you guys, because it's too hard to see and it's not that exciting. 

Then we finished cutting all the screws and nails that were on the metal floor stud things. (I'm sure Travis knows the technical term, I call them the Death trap. I hate walking in the trailer without a floor.)

Then we finished filling in ALL of the tiny holes on the walls.

After that we finished reinforcing some of the Death traps with wood so that the floor is more stable.  That took longer than I thought, and we had to stop on one day and come back the next, which tested my patience real quick. But that's ok, that's going to happen a lot.

Now for the most exciting news!!!!!

We got wood and house wrap for the floor!

Which means we are on our way to starting construction!!

Here's some pictures:

Travis working hard

Travis working even harder, cutting wood :)

I do help him most of the time, but somebody has to be the one to take the pictures ;)

Us taking a break to keep the romance alive :)

Me pointing out the Death traps that are done being reinforced :)

(You have no idea how excited I am to have a floor!)

Here's all the wood and house wrap that we will be using for the floor. 

There's was an extremely nice guy that helped us load all the plywood into the Tahoe that we used to bring the wood home.  (This is for travis: I should of asked him if we could get a picture with him and tell him about our blog. DARN)

Thanks everyone for reading our blog and always asking us about how it's coming along.

I will be doing another blog post soon really explaining why we're doing this.

I think we've only mentioned it once and that was in a previous post.

If anybody knows which post that is, let me know, that would save me time to look for it!

Stay tuned for our next post and more pictures of the construction of the floor :)

Too many things we finished to put in the title.....

Hey everyone!!!

We have lot's of pictures to show you all... and we're super excited about everything that we've finished in the last couple of weeks! Why? Because we are that much closer to completing this thing and living in it!

First thing we (and when I say we, I mean Travis did 99.9% of it all and I did the rest) did was remove all the wood on the floor

This is what he did....

It was no easy task, ripping out all of the wood.  They were some how screwed into the metal beams... And the only way we could remove them was with a sledge hammer.... Now before anybody says anything, we did not lose an eye, finger, or a limb in the process, I think that's quite an accomplishment!

(This is Travis removing the last piece of the floor board!)
I owe him an eternity of back massages. 

After removing all the wood, I had the pleasure of power washing the walls... Call me crazy for doing it in the dead of winter BUT it had to be done! I wouldn't of let Travis continue if I didn't get that metal clean! 

Now there's still some dirt on the walls but it looks ten times better than it did.... I would of took a before-and-after picture but I'm not going to subject you guys to that grossness....

After power washing, Travis cut off every screw on the metal beams..... And it was a lot easier than ripping out the floor that's for sure....

We can officially say demolition is DONE!! (I'm not counting cutting the roof and the metal where the door and windows are going)

The next thing we have to do is cut off the nails on the walls... and then get wood for the sub flooring and then start building the frame and cut the roof!!

Everything is really coming together! Pretty soon you won't even be able to tell it's a trailer!

Lastly I want to say thank you to my man and that I really appreciate you!  We wouldn't be doing any of this if it wasn't for your devotion and your motivation to work on the trailer! I love you! 

If you're squeamish or sensitive... read this with caution

The happy couple :)

We're happy to report that we've made some significant progress in this crazy adventure. We've also made some unfortunate discoveries....

First off, the roof has been repaired by none other than Travis!

                                            

The photo might be a little confusing but what we're looking at is the roof repair I made. The bottom of the photo is the wall, so we're looking up onto the roof. It may not look amazing, but for a first-timer with mediocre tools I'd say it's pretty good! Obviously this won't be visible once we're done building. Insulation and dry wall will cover this all up.

The next step is working on the floor. We need to tear it up and wash the inside of the trailer, it smells kinda strange. We think we figured out why... there wasn't any dead bodies in it (although we did find dead birds :( and there was rotting wood).

 

Yes, that's a bird egg. The nest we found there was quite big, but was long abandoned.

Fortunately, I have a very proactive girlfriend and she wanted to get some serious stuff done, so we started on the floor and almost got to where we need to be!

                              

What we're looking at here is the main frame of the trailer. There's a big piece of metal there in the metal to connect the trailer to a semi-truck via something called the "kingpin". 

You can also see where our tree trunks are touching the trailer. That piece of metal is probably the strongest part of the whole trailer, so we don't fear it bending, breaking or failing on us.

                                       

What we need to do now is clear the floor about halfway, then get a power washer and wait for a warm day (like today and yesterday). Once a warm day approaches we'll come back, clear the entire trailer, tear up the floor in the early morning, then power wash that monster!

When we're done power washing it, we'll need to prep the sub-floor so we can still walk on it and begin drawing on the windows and doors, cutting the metal, then slowly but surely building the interior wood frame. Exciting times!!! Stay tuned!

Sometimes a window can make you smile

Hello family and friends! We've got some exciting news...! Our windows have finally been bought (all but 1)!!!

"Travis! Look! They have windows!"

"OK, now put them in the cart. Let me take a picture."

"I don't think they'll all fit in that shopping cart..."

"Wait... where are we gonna put these?!?"

Hey guys! It's been a moment since I've posted something but I'm so excited!!!! Today we went to Habitat for Humanity to buy our windows and door.  We looked through all the doors and nothing stuck out to us, but we got 5 out of 6 windows.... 

I'm really happy and excited because that means we can finally get to cutting the metal.