Started Building Tiny House Battery Room

I have begun construction on the tiny house battery room. This will be an insulated room out behind the tiny house on wheels which will house my solar power battery bank and my rain water tanks.

I am pulling old barn wood out of the piles of wood I have in the forest. This is a huge mix of different size and length boards. But one thing they all have in common is that they are all full of nails.

Carting out the boards from the forest by hand is a task in itself. But then removing all the nails to prepare for construction was taking way too long. So I decided to just cut the boards and leave the nails in place. I just do not have enough time to pull out all the nails and later, the insulation will not mind if some nails are in place between the wall studs.

The nails are all on the inside of the wall framing when I put it all together so it will not matter.

I managed to get almost all the boards out of the woods and cut to length before I ran out of daylight. I do not work out in the barn wood pile after dark due to the danger of twisting an ankle in the rocks or among the wood piles or of stepping on a nail out there in the dark.

I was planning to build the taller wall first but then I started to think about the doorway and getting water tanks and batteries in and out of the shed. I have to rethink my plans for the taller wall. So I started to work on the shorter wall instead while I think about my plans.

The problem is that I am going to have a floating shed. This means, to me at least, that the shed will not be on the ground. This will keep the wood off the ground and keep it from rotting in bad weather and dampness.

There will be no floor. I plan to put gravel on the floor of the shed. So it will have an open frame with just three walls.

The shed will be simply attached to the tiny house with a few screws so if I need to move the tiny house all I need to do is remove those screws and pull the house away.

The shed will be up on cement blocks to keep it off the ground. The walls will be insulated and the bottom part will be skirted to keep out bad weather.

Lumsing sent me their highest capacity lithium ion battery pack in the smallest package form that they have. They claim this is the smallest physical package with such a high capacity on the market.

I put the battery out in the sun to charge on the SunTactics folding solar panel.

You can find Lumsing here: http://www.lumsing.com

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Troy

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