After much deliberation on methods and materials (with much yet to come), we have commenced actual building of our tiny house!

We’re coming into the winter rainy season here in California, and, as they say, had our spirits “dampened” on Friday and Saturday with our first real couple of days of rain – after pretty much six months of dry, dry skies – well shit.  Our timing on the initiation of this build wasn’t impeccable, but finances and work schedules played a more definitive role in our decision on when to make things happen.  But, Sunday dawned clear and sunny (and chilly!), and we were itching to make a move!

Down to the grit of things.  Just like any house, we work from the ground up.  Trailer (foundation), check!  On to adding the floor into the trailer.

We’d done a bit of prep work a few weeks ago. The floor joists we’re using are locally milled lumber that were actually full size 2X6’s (as in a full 2 inches by 6 inches instead of 1.5 inches by 5.5 inches), so our initial step was to rip the joists down to a custom 1.5 inches by 5 inches.

So this morning, we were able to jump right in to bolting the rim joists onto the trailer.  To those, we attached the hangers for the floor joists, then cut the floor joists to size and slid them in.  Quick work, right?  Ha!  Okay, there were a number of details and decisions we had to hash over, and definitely a lot of elbow grease to be applied, and a few, “oh hell” moments to be dealt with, and, well, every task has a lot of little steps that can take longer than it might at first appear…  But we won’t get too into the nitty gritty sawdust of it.  What’s really fun is seeing the photos of it.  Your view into the build commencement below!