tiny house for $362

[paul wheaton]

This tiny house is occupied by a couple and their cats. This piece of property came with a shack that could have been ... who knows what. A storage shed? Whatever it was, it was uninhabitable. It was nothing close to air tight.

Here is a rundown of where $362 comes from:

$10 - front door
$60 - fabric to hold in wool insulation
$120 - 400 pounds of wool in roof and door (it's nine inches thick in the middle of the poofy part)
$27 - three straw bales for wall insulation (clay/soil was free)
$60 - wood (the rest was milled on site from trees we've fallen or salvaged from the site's existing buildings or the cabin itself)
$85 - large window, the rest were free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOIifnYM7DQ

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[Ernest T. Bass]

I liked your narration... There's no mention of a vapor barrier on the ceiling, so that would be a pretty big concern of mine.. I'm picturing a big wet mess with that metal roof..