The tiny house made its maiden voyage to Florida on Friday. The last week and a half has been a little hectic trying to get it to a point where it could handle the journey. But after a lot of work we did it. Thanks again to everyone who offered their assistance.
In the days leading up to the houses departure we primarily worked on the siding and the roof. The pitch transition in the roof required a lot of thought and discussion on how best to complete it, which I expected. I feel good though about our final solution. I will definitely be (slightly) changing the design of the roof. I remember growing up working with my dad and he would be cursing the architects of the buildings he was working on because of some of the designs that they came up with. Well, now that’s me, but I’m also the architect, so who do I get to curse? My lessons learned will definitely make for better designs going forward.
I escorted my brother for about 45 minutes of the ride out of town to make sure that there were no issues at top speed (~60 mph). It was really fun to watch the expression on people’s faces as we drove by. Our path out of town also happened to pass by my work so I gave them a quick call to let them know I would be driving by. A few of my coworkers came out to wave and cheer, it was pretty cool 
Here’s a video one of them shot:
The house is headed down to my mom’s land where my step dad will caulk and paint the exterior. After that is completed and I can get some time off (in a couple of months) my brother will relocate it to my father’s property (about 2 hours away) where I will travel down to complete it. I don’t think that should take much more than a week or two with help.
In the mean time I am going to update the plan, parts/cost list, and build instructions. That will probably take a little while.
I’m having some computer issues at the moment but I will post a bunch of pictures as soon as I have that resolved.
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We saw the tiny house en route to Orlando! Cool project; lovely tiny house!
Thanks!! My brother said it was quite the hit at all the gas stations he stopped at
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Way to go, Dan!
Thanks!
Hi Dan! Someone pointed me to your page because of my own tiny house, and watching your home move down the freeway brought back fond (some of them) memories of my own little house on the freeway – ha! It was a bit nerve-wracking for me, though.
The very first thing I decided I wished I’d done was dormers in the upstairs loft, like you’d done … or else a gambrel roof, but we really were not at the skill level with building to do either of those things at the time. I don’t know if one tiny house is enough. I learned so much on the first project I almost want to make another one, so I can do all the things I didn’t do on the first one.
I’ve thought that many times (I’m going to do a post on it soon). You learn so much building a tiny house including things that you would do differently but then it’s too late (you’ve already built your house). That’s really why I decided to start this blog, so that others can hopefully learn from what I did right and wrong.