Foundations

A good topic for my first post! When you build a tiny house, your trailer is your foundation. And if we were starting from scratch - i.e., with a non-tiny-house-ready trailer - there'd be a lot more work. But our BWISE custom trailer from Tumbleweed came ready with flashing welded to the bottom of the trailer. And so we're almost all ready to build. Our first job was settling into the site and leveling the trailer with stabilizer and support jacks.

Leveling the Trailer

Next we started putting insulation in. We're using layers of 1" polyisocyanurate board. But they're too rigid to squish under the I-shaped joists. So we've cut strips to fill the under-joist space. Unfortunately, the under-joist space isn't quite as tall as the 3+ inch depth between joists. So we had to cut some strips in half to make things fit.

Just after we finished, an experienced friend stopped by and mentioned we might have put some construction adhesive in to hold the strips in place. We might go back and do that later, or use some expansion foam insulation (which we're told is pretty glue-y). Hopefully the strips will stay put overnight - it's windy in the barn these days!