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This website is a free public service to ALL of Mankind.
Our goal is to help eliminate homelessness, for good.
This site was designed to help those less fortunate to be able to find and use free
tiny house blueprints so that they can build their own tiny house on wheels
so that anyone needing a home can escape the perils of being homeless.
No one should be homeless..
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This is a SPECIAL NEW PAGE specifically designed to showcase the
BRAND NEW PLANS that we are offering to EVERYONE for free
so that those who cannot afford to build their own house ,
may be able to using these simple free plans.
No plans may be reposted, sold, published or otherwise used without the artists permission
which may only be given via written permission issued and sent via regular mail.
The ONLY reason or purpose that someone may use these plans is to
use them to build their own house to live in. THEY ARE NOT TO BE SOLD.
The following plans are BRAND NEW, pre measured, all math is done,
and all the user has to do is cut the wood, fasten them together, attach the parts to the trailer they have chosen,
and add additional windows or doors as they see fit.
No partitions have been included in these drawings, but the
user may add additional walls as well if desired and
simply attach them to the existing stud walls..
So, without further delay, here are the new free plans....
This house is a Flat roof house, with a sizable loft area for at least a queen sized bed,
and the house measures (without the trailer 12 feet 6-1/4 inches tall
16 feet long, and 8 feet wide.
The first picture is a BASIC 3 D drawing to show what it looks like before alterations by the user.
The remainder of the pictures are actual drawings to assist in the building of this house.
(to save the designs and plans, simply RIGHT CLICK on the picture, then select SAVE AS from the drop down menu
then save the pictures to your computers Desktop so that you can then find them and print them out later.)
3D diagram plan of loft construction showing loft entrance- ladder required.
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plan 2: Floor plan (Open, un-improved)
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plan 3 : First Floor -Platform (joists)
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plan 4: Front Wall
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plan 5 Left Wall
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plan 6: Right Wall
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plan 7: Rear Wall
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plan 8: Loft Floor Joist Platform
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plan 9: ROOF Floor Joist Platform
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A quick note about the materials and construction methods needed to build this
tiny house on wheels.
Normally, builders use wider floor joists in the floors and ceiling-floor combinations.
These would normally be either 2x6's, 2x8's, 2x10's etc.
For the most part, this tiny house is no different.
However, If someone wants to keep the structure as
tall as possible to allow for
interior headroom in the first floor and loft floor,
but still have a low enough roof to allow it to pass under bridges,
there adjustments that can be made to the joists to make things better.
Normally, a builder would use (lets say) 2x6 inch joists for
a particular job- like a a ceiling and attic-loft floor combination floor.
And those would be normally spaced at 16 inches center to center.
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But if a builder (working on a camper like ours) who wants to keep
the overall height as short as possible to use it as a
camper , and enable it to go under normal bridges etc,
then the maximum height of the whole
camper, including the trailer, should be no more than about 14 feet tall (give or take).
And that measurement must include the height of the
trailer frame from the ground to the top of its frame.
So if your trailer is already 1-1/2 feet tall, Then You will
want to keep the height of the camper part to under
12 feet 6 inches., so that when adding the 2 heights together, you end up with 14 ft. or lower
Remember that the weight of your camper part will weigh down the height of the trailer frame.
by possibly up to several inches.
In other words, If your trailer starts out 1-1/2 feet tall (without load) and
put the same 12 feet 6 inch house on it
which can weight up to 2 tons (4000 lbs),
plus other things like appliances in the house,
your trailer height will drop, and can go from 1-1/2 feet tall to 10 or 12 inches tall
which reduces the overall height by 8-10 inches.
So the more you can save on height, the better off you will
be in min
This will allow it to pass under local over-passes,
railroad tressels and other over road crossings.
So if you want it to be as short as humanly possible ,
you can build it shorter so that it can be short enough
to even pass under bridges that are a little lower
such as 13 ft or so.
You may replace the floor joists , but maintain the
headroom in both areas, by substituting the floor joists
and replacing the existing designs 2x6 joists,
spaced every 16 inches maximum,
with 2x4 joists spaced every 8 inches or less.
If that change is made in the building of the
living area floor joists plus the
living area ceiling and loft/floor combination joists, plus
the roof joists, you can save 6 inches in over all height, but maintain the
strength of the floors because you are spacing the 2x4 replacements closer at 1/2 the space.
So in essence, exchange the 2x6 joists spaced at 16 inches, and replace them with 2x4s spaced every 8 inches.
The only thing is you dont want, is to have the lengths of the
joists be too long or else they will flex too much,
unless you have floor supports, posts or columns..
The shorter in length the floor joists are, the stronger they will be.
So, if you have a 6 ft. long 2x4, it will have less vertical flex than
a 8 ft long 2x4.
The shorter of the two will ultimately be stronger vertically speaking.
But when you use the 2x4s (narrower) instead of
2x6s, and double up the number of 2x4 joists, and bring
the spacing of them closer together, the floor's strength can be increased.
But it may still need a floor support to reduce the flexing,
(the addition of a post, column etc. will put an end to flex.)
The only downside of doing that is there a small increase
in the amount of wood you would need to build the floors,
which comes with a increase in weight.
But the sacrifice, in the form of an increase in weight , will allow for an easier, higher
interior headroom clearance and increase in exterior vehicle headroom clearance
because of the reduced vehicle height.
And the increased number of joists will strengthen the joisted area.
But you may want to add one or more floor joist supports as stated above
such as a column or two, or posts, to hold up the center of the floor.
A good possibility for an idea to place a post or support of column would be the
end of the kitchen counter where the counter sticks
out into the center of the room.
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The end result will be the 1st floor level will have
enough headroom to fit a person who is
possibly 6 feet 2 inches tall.
But using wider joists would mean thicker floors and
the end result will be either a higher roof or
a loft with progressively less and less interior headroom.
One definite solution to help with the flexing though is
the use of screws throughout the whole project.
Screws have great clamping ability and strength.
Nails can tend to pull out even if the house is built on
a foundation.
Screws will keep things together better, and when
used in an area that has been modified as stated above,
the use of screws will help keep things from flexing as much .
The conclusion here is , if you want to use the
2x6 floor joists in your design, you have an option
of using either screws or nails (both galvanized),
but if you want to use the
only 2x4 joists in the design, moving them closer
together, you really dont have a choice but to use
screws in order to keep the flexing to a minimum.
But in my opinion , regardless of which joist widths
you decide to use, I highly recommend
that you use galvanized screws to build the structure.
You have the option of using nails too,
but i still recommend that if you use nails, that you
should use galvanized ones and not use uncoated nails.
But I still recommend that you use screw (or
bolts and nuts) over the use of
nails, when given the choice, ANY DAY of the week.
Screws are WAY better.
The clamping and holding forces of screws are
MUCH MUCH higher than those of nails when measured
using tension meters and mechanical pressure guages in lab tests proving this fact.
In time, the use of nails will result in the structure twisting and coming apart.
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