tiny house siding

The siding is taking shape. Weather has treated the thin skin of our tiny timber house harshly over the winter yet it made it through. The wooden armor is slowly going up and turning our shiny little house into a true woodland home. I will be thrilled to have it all up especially after a Winter of high winds. Every wind storm seemed to pull the double bubble skin off the house and I inevitably would be out in the rain and wind with a staple gun suturing the gaps in our skin.

siding the tiny house phase two

At last a little siding is on the south face of the tiny house. This weekend Donnelly and I put up some poplar and pine siding. It has made a world o difference in noise buffering as well as wind penetration. The neighbors cows are soothing in their own way when they bellow first thing in the AM but not hearing them is nice too. I think it looks nice but after the aluminum foil look anything wood would look magnificent.

double post day, tiny house

As noted in the earlier post, the siding has begun. Prior to siding we gave the tiny house a little modern funk look. We wrapped the house in foam insulation. The foam has a radiant barrier, ergo the modern metal look. We are excited to finish stapling the wrap and keep putting up boards. We ate putting up poplar boards as the siding The batons that we ate nailing to are actually pieces of maple floor that were too rough to use. Limiting our waste and maximizing our potential. We are backing the poplar in roofing felt do as not to have the metal glare coming through if/ when the boards shrink. The idea came to me this weekend to cut strips of felt to two inches and just felt the area that may become exposed thus saving more material and resources. It may have been an obvious idea but I was ready proud to have thought of it.

Tiny house siding

The siding process has begun. We picked up the lumber from the saw mill this past weekend and it look classy. The poplar is long and straight and the the hackberry is beautiful. The hackberry is full of spalting and wormy holes. It is the best looking lumber I have seen out of our timbering efforts.