Salvaged boat trailer as mobile home-office: $300 + labor
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Jenine Alexander likes to build tiny structures on wheels. And she loves to find her building materials in the dump or on craigslist.
Her first handcrafted mobile home cost her just a couple thousand dollars. She only paid for the trailer and fasteners; the rest was salvaged. Her second tiny house on wheels she built with a business partner during the summer of 2010, using salvaged windows and doors.
Her latest craigslist find- a $300 duel axel 18' foot boat trailer- became the foundation for her latest mobile, small shelter. With another $200 and a lot of searching, she found all of the framing lumber, Redwood tongue, groove siding, and salvaged doors and windows.
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I think using a boat trailer makes the shape of the house/work-space interesting. I like it! :)
I love Jenine Alexander's style.
An old horse trailer could be adapted to make a small portable house/ office. It just shows that with a few handtools, anyone could make some sort of viable shelter - a claw hammer, saw and look for old wood with nails intact. Old pallets would do for this purpose. I think this woman is very talented and obviously she has skills most of us ought to learn, if only for survival.
omg! beautiful and smart. why can't i meet a woman like this!
Jenine is very talented!
i just love these girls,[dont worry not a stalker],so glad to see another video of their building ideas.there design as you go ,artistic touch,give these little homes a individual personality that is rare nowadays.I have found that free previously used building supplies are just about endless once you start looking .i see free 12x50,60,70,foot moble homes all the time.some have added pichted roofs like a house.free campers,apliances widows,doors,furniture,computers,and even cars.some love the feeling of helping others. giving away stuff you would have to throw away cost nothing.if someone wants a home,and can put a little of their own work into it,it can be done with little money and some hope.I'm guessing these girls have inspired lots of people to go out and look for things they need but dont think they could get.most of all free does not necessarily mean junk or trash.
Yes! Home addition without paying property taxes on it! And recycling things. It's all good to me. Inspiring.
Very nice, inspirational 4 all serious tinkerers-citizen engineers! Free yourself-empower yourself! Great share!
Who gave this a thumbs down???
Everything about this is excellent, even those damn goats!
Yay! I was wondering how Jenine was doing. I love her!
Super smart and inventive young lady. Nice to see her succeed in her designs. As for the billy goat, he needs a shave.
This chick is getting better, good stuff.
I love that it's portable and all the recycling,a win/win! congrats!
This girl has some great ideas and is so inovative! I hope their work gets noticed more, :-)
I love the way you salvage materials. You have found your calling.
Where are you?
Yay these two again!
she's got a nice little tush :)
This woman is amazing.
so inspirational. I would love to build things like these one day
Awesome video. Beautiful workspace, beautiful, intelligent woman. Thanks a lot
4:59 That wire is a little scary. I would suggest drilling out collar tie with a 7/8" bit and using a Metal 3/8" KO Connector turned upside down. Look for them at the dump still attached to fixture boxes. This will allow the wire to be relatively secure and not rub against the metal and possibly short out. Looks amazing! Great job once again!
Beautiful
l love her
She so inspires me....
i love your videos, ez going pace, informative views and intelligent dialogue. dLightFull! Thank you =)
Been considering this past month or 2 so had to research n see what ideas were out there ❤
this girl is awesome!
jenine is pretty awesome and so are her creations. lovely build, this :)
Sweet trailer
She bought it second-hand. Or found a broken one and repaired it with surplus parts. She's a SuperWoman. :)
She's amazing.
I love your work
this was a great video! thanx for sharing..
Very Inspirational, thank you!
I like the constructions for what they are ... but tell me, other than the price, what is so great about tiny homes? I don't believe it's natural for humans to live in a space as small as this.
Just a thought but has anyone thought about putting two of these together like a double wide and have twice the space.? I know it defeats the whole purpose of a tiny home, but, what if you wanted more small space, can it be done? Will someone please try this? How about you guys? Thanks!
Have you taken it on the road yet? What type of boat frame is it? How much weight can it haul with animals or humans in it? I am considering going this route but have a few questions.
Applause for the use of recycled materials and the intention behind the build, but anything worth doing is worth doing well. Reglazing those windows would have been much simpler prior to installation, and points and glazing compound are pretty cheap. Why insulate the walls when you seemingly have no intention of insulating the roof? And take a little more time on those jigsaw cuts for the siding around the fenders.
Very cool but I don't think I could work next to goats all day long.
Where do I go to learn how to built these?
her mac cost more than what she built...
Very intelligent clever
upcycle to the max, My fav part EHHHH no the idea is its not in the living room LMAO.
Yeah...not to sound rude, but we Carnis( like you call use in the US...), have those "trailers", but they are 12m long, 4m high, some of them comes with what we call "drawers", large parts of usually 1 to 2m large that comes out with hydrolics.
Some of the most elaborate comes with and hydrolic system to add a 2nd floor and top a heigh of 7-8m..., and we have been doing this for the last 3 decades, so yeah, nothing really new here, its just a bit fancy, nothing original though.
how much would you charge to build from scrap material?
Actually it's a normal size office. If it was a house, it would be tiny.
It could use a window in the front
Impressive okay so this is like 9 years old I guess I'll have to go check ✔️ further
This girl is hot. Nice to see her again!
And Photoshop?!?
Way cool and a woman did it, makes it even cooler.
These things are minor by themselves, but they combine to give an impression of either limited skill or hasty construction that have me wondering where else you cut corners. If you are going to attempt to gain publicity as a builder of tiny houses then you should be aware that these things are going to matter to potential clients. Your second house was a much better effort.
..she got green macbook-keyboard.
I always forget how hot she is.
check this man out ruclips.net/user/solarcabin?feature=g-user-u
He talks about land as well in one of his starter videos