Anybody built a Tiny House?

[jjeff]

A design template I mentioned earlier has various sizes to scale of traceable inswing and out swing doors to play around with.

 

[JasperFrank]

I would look at how RV and Boat bath rooms are set up.

 

[2manyrocks]

Campers typically use mini-sized fixtures intended to be both compact and to save weight.

5x8 is 40 SF which is the same SF as 4x10, but increasing the width to 5 feet makes a real difference if it can be done.

Eddie Walker's detailed post is very practical. Having a vanity to at least store some clean towels and wash clothes, etc is important and counter space is also important in useability. Not having a curb on the shower is really nice. If you could copy his 5x9 design, that would be a real winner.

 

[EddieWalker]

The RV that I grew up with that my parents bought in the early 70's had a small toilet right in front of the door. You could squeeze past it to stand in the shower to the left, but it was easier to step over the toilet to get into the shower. You had to stand in the shower to get to the sink. The curtain for the shower had a track on the ceiling that went completely around the shower. I'm gonna guess that the entire bathroom was 3x4. Your knees where in your chest when going number 2, and I was just a kid back then!!!!

Newer RV's that I've seen are separating the shower, toilet and sink to both sides of the RV with the hall being between them. Some have the sink outside the toilet area. It's very creative, and the size of the showers is impressive, but it's not something you should do for a house.

 

[jjeff]

The RV that I grew up with that my parents bought in the early 70's had a small toilet right in front of the door. You could squeeze past it to stand in the shower to the left, but it was easier to step over the toilet to get into the shower. You had to stand in the shower to get to the sink. The curtain for the shower had a track on the ceiling that went completely around the shower. I'm gonna guess that the entire bathroom was 3x4. Your knees where in your chest when going number 2, and I was just a kid back then!!!!

Newer RV's that I've seen are separating the shower, toilet and sink to both sides of the RV with the hall being between them. Some have the sink outside the toilet area. It's very creative, and the size of the showers is impressive, but it's not something you should do for a house.

Not to mention cuz it's lighter and cheaper the durability compared to household fixtures is lackluster in my experiences with RV specific items. I totally forgot when we got our small class C introducing my kids to a RV, and repaired countless items on it cuz of misuse you of younger ones used to the strength and durability of common household fixtures.

 

[etpm]

Found a copy of the tiny house.... it shows the bathroom layout

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Thanks for the drawing, I really appreciate it. You must have posted it while I was typing my reply.
Eric

 

[etpm]

ADA was a consideration

Greetings Eddie,
ADA is a consideration that I had not thought enough about. Though I am building a ramp for a relative that is sometimes scooter bound because of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Muscular Dystrophy I did not consider the shower sill. Having no raised sill is a great idea. Now I gotta figure out how to do this.
Thanks,
Eric

 

[etpm]

Hey All,
I just wanna say Thank You to all the folks who have responded so far to my Tiny House bathroom inquiry. I have been getting lots of good advice and lots of good ideas.
After reading the posts I realized I need to add more info. First of all, even though the room is about 300 feet from our house it is 6 feet from my shop. My shop has its own septic system and the room is about 20 feet from the septic tank, which is behind the shop. So I will be connecting the room to the shop water supply and the shop septic. In fact, I have a water pipe with a valve in a vault just outside the back of the shop. This water feeds the greenhouse. I will need to put the sewage pipe under the water pipe to get to the septic tank. I don't know what code says about water pipe and sewage pipe proximity. This may be a problem. Then again it may not.
The reason for the narrow bathroom is because the room is only 6 feet and 3 inches from the side of my shop. That means that if the bathroom is 4 feet inside there will only be about 1 1/2 feet between the bathroom's outside wall and the shop. With this small clearance I'm not sure how the builders are gonna attach the T1-11 siding. I am considering moving the room, dragging it away from the shop a couple feet.
My son built the room and had it at his house. When the house was sold the building wasn't part of the deal. I bought it from him and he moved it about 1/2 mile to my place and set it on pier blocks. So I am gonna ask him how hard it would be to move it 2 feet. When I originally bought it the inside was not finished. Now it is and I don't know if the drywall is gonna crack. The room is built properly and is really quite stout but wood moves and I would hate to have to fix a bunch of cracks and then paint the interior once again.
Thanks,
Eric

 

[plowhog]

California just enacted (Jan 1 2024) new relaxations on building Accessible Dwelling Units (ADU) on your property. ADU's were allowed before, but requirements are now more relaxed.0

I am researching it now, but appears that if you stay at 800sq ft or less, the local County cannot say NO or impose onerous regulations.

We still own a nice property in CA. I am quite interested in doing an ADU and hope to learn more. But I guess 800 ft is beyond the scope of a tiny house?

 

[EddieWalker]

If it's a slab foundation, I cut out the concrete and pour new concrete with the slope after installing the new drain. If it's pier and beam, I remove all the plywood subflooring, and then I frame in between the floor joists.