Friday, September 27, 2013

Teaching Tiny House Classes

This summer I taught a summer course at Mendocino College, and for a couple of days a week for 8 weeks, an eclectic group of locals and not so locals got together and built as much as we could of a new tiny house for the college construction course.

Turns out teaching a tiny house building course takes a fair amount of time.   That said, it's also a lot of fun.  Here are some pics from the class. 
 
Tiny house class day one, getting the trailer prepped for flashing

starting on rim joists with flashing in place
laying out joists for floor

Rough plumbing in, gas and water supply, drain wast vent.  Insulation going down.

Walls going up. After we carried the first wall onto the trailer, we realized it was pretty heavy and sketchy, so we enlisted a passing fork lift for our second wall.
 
rafters are in, sheathing going onto walls and roof.






getting some house wrap on before we end the class






last but not least, some windows..... that's it for Summer 2013 class.   It was a fun adventure, thanks to a great group and to Mendocino College for taking the idea and letting us run.

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