Building The New Igloo: Bird update.

I have been doing some thinking as I wait for the email from Ford saying my truck is built, which sadly hasn't come in yet. I am definitely liking the option where I pay cash for the truck, and get the shell put up next year and I finish it. I think it is the frontrunner at this point. It gives a year for prices to stabilize, lumber is still really expensive, and should start coming down soon. While I don't think the cost of the shell will come down, it will make the rest of the construction cheaper. And avoiding the skyrocketing interest rates for a car loan is a bonus.

The biggest problem I can foresee is the where do I live while I finish it. My original thought was just part the tiny home in the garage. That has a problem though: the tiny home is around 12 feet tall. That won't fit in a garage. Two feet of that is the trailer frame, but I can't just dump it off (assuming I figured out how to do that without breaking it) since the plumbing goes below the floor framing. I would also have to remove the roof (where all the plumbing vents are). In addition, I would have to put a hole in the garage so that I can vent the plumbing. That idea is looking less attractive every day, especially since I have to find somewhere to live until I get that all done; plumbing is a requirement. I could probably get by with one of those portable toilets that I was considering for a back of truck camper, but I will still need water, which means the utility room will also have to be done immediately. Right now I am leaning more towards building a box in garage (which I can have mostly prefabricated by the time the shell goes up), and then just live in that, though the plumbing is still a problem in that case, but at least an easier one to solve. It also means doing a bunch of throwaway electrical work for example. The average garage door opening is too short for a camper; my Dad's camper is 10' tall, which is short for a camper, and is is still 3' taller than your average garage door opening, which is only 7'. A popup could be an option that I could resell afterwards though. So this is something to think about at any rate. I am intending on visiting LaValley today assuming I can pull away from work for a few hours, this is something I might ask about. Maybe I can put the tiny home on the slab and they can build around it, though I doubt that.

So that is what has been going through my head the rest of the week. In other news, the birds got a little bit bigger before they took off. This was taken on Tuesday.