how to recycle a tiny house, day one

As I reported yesterday, we are recycling an entire tiny house, by taking it apart where it is and putting it back together here. And it’s happening FAST.

Here was Noah’s house yesterday at noon:

And here it is four hours later:

The bits that had been taken off were in piles, ready to be moved on the trailer, windows, doors, siding:

The inside was rather shocking:

The white stuff is the remains of the old sheetrock ceiling.

Some more views—it’s like a peeled egg, isn’t it?

Sort of sad and forlorn. I hope it knows it’s going to a good home.

But meanwhile, at our place, the site was getting ready.

Here it where it is going…you might be able to see the little orange string that says, “put the house here!”

And here is the bobcat that the carpentry crew rented to get the grading right. What would take all day with shovels, got done in about twenty minutes with this little thing. I read that one gallon of gasoline has the manpower of a thousand hours or something like that, and I can believe it. Paul was happy not to be doing that shoveling, let me tell you. And I made all my noises about protecting the tree roots, so all was well.

Here are the kids watching the ‘digger.’ They were ECSTATIC. I said, “the digger is here!” and they SCREAMED and scattered to get their coats. Luc came out with his coat on inside out, grinning this giant grin, holding his little digger up so it could see it’s bigger digger cousin.

Tune in tomorrow for the latest updates on the house move!

Tags: Noah house, recycled building supplies, tiny houses

Category: alternative building