Lots of updates over the past few weeks - I’m slowly but surely moving into the rented warehouse space, bringing all my tools (also acquiring new ones), building workbenches, and laying out the space.
I’ve been working on a toolchest to store my tools (for the past few years they have been kept in miscellaneous organizers, bags, and cardboard boxes). The whole reason for the toolchest was to build a cabinet with drawers such that the cabinets in the tiny house wouldn’t be the first cabinets I ever built. I welded up a metal frame at the makerspace and then built the carcass out of 3/4” veneered ply, and used mainly 1x4 select pine for the drawers. The face frame is also pine. I got a butcher block slab relatively inexpensively from LL Flooring. I still need to finish the drawer fronts.
Lumber was delivered on 6/14 - framing lumber, roof lumber, ZIP Panels, and underlayment. This should be enough material to frame and sheath the entire house and get it ready to receive windows and doors. I ordered different lengths and quantities of 2x4s, 2x6s, and 2x8s, all No. 1 & BTR grade Kiln Dried except for roof joists which were Select Structural grade. Some of the delivered lumber was not the right grade, which I’m hoping the yard will quickly remedy.
Last but not least - why is there a wooden, rickety looking excuse for a trailer in the space? The warehouse advertised 16’ roll up doors and 16’ clear height ceilings, neither which turned out to be true, and I also didn’t verify until after signing the lease (lesson learned). The door is 13’6” and the lowest fire sprinkler pipe is 13’6”. The house when complete is 14’ tall, leaving 6” + 2” clearance to find in order to get it out the door. While not finalized, I think a combination of smaller wheels for this specific operation, some clever raising and lower of the tongue, and leaving the rear section of roof and envelope off until the house is outside can do it.
There is also a concern of getting it out of the door and into the main driveway without hitting the fence at the property limit. This is where the wood trailer comes in - to validate this operation.
It works, but barely. A truck would not be able to get that close to the fence, so some hitch dolly would need to be used. There is definitely some more thinking that needs to be done on this, but the “too late” point doesn’t come until the roof sections are on in terms of height.