Other older tiny house threads:
This Three-Story Tiny House Fits In The Footprint Of A Parking Space
Rent-then-own tiny house village seeks to reinvent Detroit's low-income housing
Portable toilets converted into homes for homeless (CA)
Why It's Becoming Cool to Live in Your Car - Or a 150-sq. ft. Apartment
Sears used to sell houses in a kit many decades ago.
These would be perfect emergency housing for places like Puerto Rico after the hurricanes....................
In America, they’re called “mobile homes.” And 55,000 pounds isn’t that cheap for a 950-s-f mobile home. Besides, Brits... y’all really want tornadoes? Because that’s how you get tornadoes.
Does the 6-hr build include wires and plumbing?
Those are actually pretty nice!
One of the speakers at a seminar I attended recently in the modular construction market talked about some absolutely amazing things being done in factory built housing.
I’m privy to one that hasn’t really been heavily publicized yet and am part of a non-disclosure agreement, but it has the potential to seriously disrupt the building industry, although it will take many years to have a huge impact.
Yes, it may take 6 hours to assemble, but there are hundreds of man and machine hours in the factory. I like that the foundation work is minimal.
Assembled, not built.
I’ve seen several instances of prefab “tiny houses” built on pontoon platforms over the past year or so, with two outboard motors and an electric retractable “helm.” What’s driving it, or at least what’s driving it on the east coast, is the TVA threatening to ban floating houses on TVA lakes, so they’re now making them navigable houseboats.
I’ve rented one before on Fontana Lake in North Carolina just west of the Cherokee reservation, it was very nice, only accessible by boat but a standard size pontoon boat with it’s own sheltered attached dock came with it, and the owners would take you out for a walkthrough and demo of features upon checkin.
But, you’d have to be familiar and comfortable with marine or RV-type appliances and power since it had no shore power, just solar panels, a generator with propane tank and a battery bank. Marine toilet with holding tank, too, which work quite well usually but you can’t go turning on the exhaust vent fan until after you’ve flushed, otherwise you’ll be drawing odor into the house from the holding tank rather than expelling it. Flushing a marine toilet isn’t all that simple either, foot pedal halfway down to put water in the bowl, foot pedal all the way down to flush.
I could live that way, it’s not bad really, you just have to plan your power use and your water use, not a big deal unless you have a large number of people in the house. Becomes second nature pretty quickly and easily, don’t even have to think about it after a few days. A bit of a pain running through the propane on dark rainy or snowy days though, I’d imagine.
My dad helped my grandfather build their family home from a kit in the 40s. Came with everything, right down to the nails.
When it arrive on the flatbed truck, they just tipped the bed and let it all slide off. The windows came on a separate truck.
His father could plainly see that some of the lumber was damaged during the unloading. The delivery driver handed him a form and told him to just list everything damaged, and they’d be back in a smaller truck with all the replacement parts.
Someone figured out it was cheaper to replace a few items than to take the time unloading the truck by hand.
Yes, and it would FLY very well in a hurricane or tornado.
BFL
