Mastodawn

Haven't even mentioned the porch part yet. It has to be screened in, because mosquitoes. None of the builders will do that, so it's on me. But what I'd love to do is outfit it so that transparent/translucent corrugated panels can go on it in the winter for year-round and maybe even greenhouse use.

My dad likes to be outside a lot, but he hasn't done it much this year due to fear of taking ill. I'd like this little intermediate zone for him as well as me.

Forgot to mention that the water heating system would connect to the kitchen sink as well.

I already have solar water heating for the outdoor shower, but obviously that's not happening just now. It works well, though, on a truly tiny scale. It's a black five gallon bucket with lid, connected to a sink sprayer. Love it. I plan on using it even after the new one is built.

The tiny house roof is currently curved, vardo-style. I have a pinned post with a picture. For the sake of time, effort, and money, the replacement roof will have to be a single slope roof angled to make the most of the southern sun. Still waffling on whether to put transom windows or not. I have a lot of windows already but two of them are on the north side where they don't do that much good. I have only one to the south. Big, yeah but still not enough light.

Once my stuff is moved, whatever helpers I can hire and I need to get up there and unscrew the whole roof. It is five SIPs interlocked with OSB wafers and a ton of glue, screwed down to the walls with really long screws. We should be able to saw through the wafers for easier disassembly.

Oh, before that, I have to uninstall a bunch of hardware in the inside. Lighting fixtures, trim, and reinforcement brackets.

The bunkhouse was going to be a future item, but I realized it would save me putting all my stuff into a tent and possibly getting an injury from all the stooping and stepping over thresholds that entails. Working with a tent is more strenuous than young me would have guessed. The building can be a standard design already on their lot, so it can get here fast. It just has to be oriented to make the most of the southern sun.

In other #DeerCamp news, I still need to replace my roof. It took extensive water damage under the silicone roof coat and can't be repaired. The tiny house is in an incredibly awkward location and I'm not comfortable doing roof work before it's on foundation anyway, so I finally found someone to build me a foundation.

After that, move the thing and anchor it down.

In the meantime, I'd like to order and receive the bunkhouse, so I can live in it during the roof work.

Yeah, I could build this thing myself, especially if I get some help. But the last year has taught me that I can't rely on my body anymore. I get ready to do something like install my wood stove, and my back, knees, hips give up and I just can't. And I can't get "help" if I'm not participating myself. That's a hire-out thing.

The outhouse will use a bucket dry toilet system, probably two separate buckets with a urinal going to one of the buckets.

The shower will get warm water from an elevated tank. In the summer, the sun heats the tank. I want a rocket mass stove outside for cooking and baking, but also to supply hot water by heat siphon to the tank in cold weather. The water will come from rain harvesting off the roof.

Gray water collection from the drain here for the pond, as with the sink.