Tiny House Construction

In 2019, I started building a tiny house to park down by our lake;

near a beaver pond...

behind our island.

It began with a trailer,

and then some cedar floor joists...

with a plywood subfloor.

I may be getting ahead of myself; if I may back up a couple of years, there were some beams to be cut.

Below, I am notching the plates for the tiny house in my studio. The advantage of building a post and beam is that the frame can be cut inside for later assembly.

The following photos show the assembling of the beams on the trailer.

Tools for fitting joints.

After the bents were assembled, the next thing to do was to set the bents up vertically and fill in the tying beams to form the frame of the house. To do this I had some help from a winch in a nearby tree and my Ford tractor, see photos:

Tree with winch; tying beam on frame for tying frame together.

Standing up the first bent.

I tied the bottom of it to the backhoe to keep it from falling off the other side of the trailer.

Second bent going up.

Tying beams in place!

I loosened the temporary braces to secure the bents together.

Shows "come-a-long" strapped to the bents to pull them together. I reattached the temporary brace after squaring up the bent.

Securing the Rafters with the ridge board.

Rafters ready for sheathing boards.

Sheathing boards going on.

Ice and watershield and a tarp, gets it ready for winter...