FINALLY!! The Lap Siding is coming together (Building a Tiny House)
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The rain has stopped!! and we finally had a chance to work on the lap siding facade. it´s all starting to come together now!
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About the cleared area and maybe planting grass there (or something) may I warmly recommend white clover! (Klee auf Deutsch) It's wonderful hardy ground cover, grows naturally short so it doesn't need mowing, has really pretty white flower heads and is nitrogen fixing, so it will improve soil quality over time! It's the more sustainable option over conventional grass!
This update is as always so great! I'm currently recovering from surgery where they had to remove a growth from my thyroid. While getting prepped for surgery I kept thinking of Laura and her positive attitude when finding scary problems in her house! "I'm glad we did this, I'm glad we found this!"
Seeing you overcome problems and keep going is such a wonderful thing and so inspiring!
Wishing a speedy recovery💪 hopefully they got it all out
Hope your recovery goes well! :)
I can second clover! It’s fabulous no mow ground cover, and the bees love it.
Please tape the top of the window head flashing with flashing tape to keep water from getting behind it. Otherwise your details are good!
I was also thinking she should have caulked the ends of the clapboards. Water will find its way in.
Better yet, cut a 45⁰ into the tar paper and slip it underneath then tape the seams
I was almost yelling the same thing at the screen.
For the landscaping, do crushed gravel and raised beds. You’ll get better drainage in the wet season and the raised beds will be temporary structures you can move around.
It’s beautiful!
Please don't take this as a criticism. You should seal the ends of every cut and coat all 6 sides of any wood that you want to expose to the outside. Also, on your bottom sill, you should put a small cut on the underside about a half inch from the outer bottom edge to create a drip break to keep the water from wicking back under the windowsill. Anyway, I LOVE your channel!
Hi Laura - if the bottom of the window trim underside is perpendicular to the wall you may want to put a kerf about 1/4 to 1/2 inch back from the front. This will break the water surface tension allowing the water to drip to the ground as opposed to running back to the wall and behind the siding.
Listen to this advise - WISE!
Yup. We call it a drip in the UK. Essential.
We all know by now that there is no interesst in advice on sound building. "lets experiment and find out"
Yeah I’m a sheet metal worker and typ you need a drip edge
You should put a plant in the old waste bin on the bus stop! It's gonna be so cozy! Can't wait to see it all come together!
Harry’s level of confidence in his time frame sounds like all of us when our partners ask, “and how much time are you going to be unavailable?” “Gonna be done in 2 hours. Tops. Maybe 3.” (9 days later-still not done)
Rule of estimating time for a project: 1. Start with your best guess. 2. Move to the next higher unit 3. Double the result from step 2. Thus, 3 hours becomes 3 days times 2 for a result of 6 days.
Hey! I resemble that remark.
True but he was very tongue in cheek
Delia Guzman, You know the routine!
Just say it will be done by christmas, and dont say which year.
This reminds me of that one time I decided to paint the garden fence black and everyone thought I was crazy. Turns out plants look amazing against a black backdrop.
As does a tiny house!
I like the little detour to rearrange the outside area, I do most of my cleaning jobs while procrastinating on a difficult project!
Swedish viewer here, almost choked on my coffee when I spotted that Falu paint! That stuff has shown it's true colours (pardon the pun) for 500 years. Wonderful.
Very nice to see you happy! One note: the bottom sill of a window should also have a drip edge. With a slight angle and a groove on the underside. Water finds a way!
Okay, two notes: add a silicon "finger smear" on the outside of those corner edges. And the bottoms.
So glad you put the drip profile on the top of the windows. You need one on the bottom of the windowsils too. Just cut a notch along the underside of the sill so the water can't flow back behind the cladding.
I love the matt black cladding with the bare wood. It is a beautiful combination and I can't wait to see how you finish it off with the roof.
Normal procedure is to nail or screw siding near the bottom. This way everything is interlocked. Screw in top you will face a risk of panels bending outwards after a while due to thermal and moisture. Also those corners, although looking great, will cause water ingress. There is a reason why wooden houses have siding all the way out to the corners and the a vertical board covering the corner. Love the color scheme.
Agree. Seeing this doesn’t look waterproof unfortunately 😶
You should cut a groove along the length of the outside window sills about a half inch in from the front edge. That way water running off the window will not, due to capillary action, run along the underside of the sill and into the siding. Make sure you caulk between the siding and the underside if the window sills. Looks nice.
I hope you taped the upturn of that drip flashing above the door. Otherwise water can still get behind.
You should always wrap the building upwards, so that water falling down the face doesn't have the cracks to get behind anything. (Aka shingled)
In addition, would it not be better if the flashing above the door be turned up so that the rain won’t fall onto whomever leaves the door?
Regardless: you’re doing great. Never stop improving
It’s been a while since we have seen such a joyous project. Can we name the new outdoor space ‘Laurapark’?
Kampfland
"Geil" land !
laurapark is in keeping with her other names i like that.
You definitely need a "drip edge" on the flashing above the doors and windows so the water separates from the flashing and drops off.
Otherwise, it can stick to the surface and travel down the underside and get behind the door or window.
Also, as others have said, you should tape the top seam of the flashing where the flashing meets the house wrap paper so water cannot get behind that joint.
And, as others said, when you are taping make sure you tape in a "waterfall" fashion I.E. taping should be done in the same order as your lap siding - bottom to top - such that the water deflects over top of the tap and not behind a lower tape seam.
One of the best things about your videos is the open, honest, child-like enthusiasm you share with the viewer. I love that about you, Laura!
I have tears of emotion in my eyes because it turned out so beautifully. I'm totally happy for you, and I'm absolutely blown away by how you're pulling it all off.
I'm glad you had at least a day without rain and could get things done without exposing more of the house to rain.
Rough cut black, red door, surrounded by finished natural wood, Beautiful!!!!
Before you put your wood around the windows, you should have used window sealing tape!
It looks fantastic! You could always fill the space you cleared away to put the tiny house on with gravel. You could put black weed mat down first so no weeds & so would be a permanent base with almost no maintenance (& no mud inside the tiny house if it rains). If you wanted plants, flowers or herbs out there you could plant in pots & tubs. Just am idea x
If you want to waterproof your wood, coat the ends and backs of the wood with whatever you're using...paint, oil, etc. Primer works great. Also flash around the whole window and door :)
You should tape the surrounds around the doors and windows where the touch the black planking. Water will sep between the two and will end up behind the surrounds. This will lead to water pooling and rot. You may also get water traveling along the screws and ending up in the building. Waterproof tape all seems and connections between materials.
Laura, the caravan looks beautiful and.......I love your dog. He's so happy, smart and shiny!
Very nice, however I think you are missing drip groove on window sill? And don't forget to seal up all the edges too 👍😊
at 6:00, where you put on the side boards around the door, make sure you leave a little gap between the board and the aluminum, or the end grain will wick up the moisture and rot.
Loving that I get to share this journey with you. Also on a radio "over" means you are done speaking and expecting a response "out" means you are done with the conversation.. you would never use both at the same time. it's over or out not over & out.
I have a feeling she did that to annoy the amateur radio operators. Actually, I don't think amateur radio operators use "out" very much, they seem to mostly use "73".
Love that you are doing what you do best with wood in this phase! Caulk/apply flashing to windows, door & house corners - you’ve already found out the hard way that tiny homes are highly susceptible to leaks! Otherwise, well done! ❤🌈☀️
Yes on the corners! Never ever do a mitered corner for the siding. Well done. Love the dogs!
Always nice to see you smiling and happy, love the progress on another one of your Tiny House projects. Be well.
Dear Laura, Over and Out is movie grade. Over means "I'm done talking and expect answer" and Out means "I'm done talking and don't expect an answer" ;-)
Don't forget to caulk ALL the edges and corners, around the windows and door and at the end of each piece of siding.
I believe I would have bedded the window framing(top and sides), cut drip stops on the bottoms of the top and bottom sills, bedded the corners & bedded all the siding verticals ..... just sayin'
DO NOT caulk the bottom or the windows and doors. That way if water does get in there (and it will, eventually) it has a way to get out and not just sit there soaking into the wood.
@@HandlebarWorkshops You mean underneath, right?
@@Greywulff58 exactly!
Note - You don't need to say "over and out" at the end of radio communications they mean different things
"Over" means you have finished talking and you're waiting for response
"Out" means communication has ended.
Just say "out" at the end.
Most common mistake due to hollywood doing it wrong. :D
I suppose it could mean "over to you, but I'm not hanging around to listen to your reply, out!" 😄
Thank you for addressing this issue Paul, now I don't have to. Bugs me no end to hear it used incorrectly!
I realise every time I finish one of your videos I have a big smile on my face, whether it goes badly or well or in-between. Thanks for bringing lightness and joy into the world :)
So fun seeing you crow when a piece of siding is cut perfectly and pops into place.
love that harry could use the liselotte windows plus they have blinds included thats a win!
[Smokes in German] "I'll be done in a couple days." Classic Harry.
The bottom edge of the window surround also need to slope for rain to runoff. Otherwise water will pool up and run down behind it. There is a mental trick to use in thinking these things through…think “I am water, where can I go?” That mental thinking trick is also handy for weight load distribution design thinking.
You need to cut a groove in the underside of the bottom board of the window box frames to cause drips to drop off and down the outside of the larch lap sidings.
Make the groove about 3-4mm deep and the same wide, about 5 mm back from the outer edge.
Without this groove the rain drops will run back along the underside of the window box frame and then run down the inside of the larch lap.
Drip edge
Aaaah, good ol' Falu Rödfärg! I respect your choice of paint!
I really like your channel because of how happy you are. It's refreshing
Everything according to plan! Yesss! Beautiful outcome!
On your window water table, it's a good idea to add a small channel like an 1/8" dato on the underside so that as the water runs down and back towards the window it falls off from the dato'd gap. This is called a drip edge.
But now I see you have aluminum capping. So count this as a more you know 🤦♂️
So glad to see this coming together - and your happiness with it. One water related tip - the sill at the bottom of your windows should be slanted on the top just like the trim board across the top of the window. That way water will drain off and away from the window ledge instead of pooling on the sill and running down behind the sill and behind the siding below it. This does mean you will need to recut the side trim to match the angle of the sill. Just say no to water leaks!
It is angled…
It would be good to have a drip cut on the bottom of any window sills about 10mm back from the edge on the underside of the sill. That will reduce the chance of water infiltration.
You should do a whole episode just on Smudo. How you got him, things he knows, things he likes and doesn't like, his funny habits. Dogs are the best people.
Just love your enthousiasm, positivity and "joie de vivre" in general! Thanks for your uplifting videos...
Laura, I am not sure if you have already but I would recomend installing a small HRV system in the tiny home, It will help with the control of temp, humidity and assist with the management of mould and condensation
It's BEAUTIFUL like each and everyone of you! Including the lovable smoodo xxxxxxx and friend xxxxxx
Geil! Falu Rödfärg is very traditional, it is really IronSulphate and some pigment added. The red pigment was the slag (leftovers) from the Swedish Copper-mines. But other colors was popular too, blue, black and even yellow.
With no pigment in it the wood panel turns grey after a couple of months - looks awesome.
i always love Laura's attitude and approach to problems. so positive, even if things are difficult, hard, challenging... facing set backs, etc. its such great energy 💕😀
Hey Laura - now that quote of yours is one that will be so useful for me as well: "...to _curate_ all my junk..." 🥰 gotta love it!!
Beautiful! I love the contrast of door and siding
Paint is beautiful!! Others have mentioned it, but leaving a small 1/8” gap at any place the siding hits another material (window, door, end of building) and then caulking that gap creates a more watertight system.
Looks beautiful indeed. W
Will try and send sunny weather from our 30 degree days on the Sunshine Coast Australia so we can continue to share your joy.
It’s coming along nicely. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep Making. God bless.
The black siding looks fantastic, and larch will last a long time. The black will collect a lot of solar energy in the autumn, winter, and spring. But you may want to find a shady location for it in the summer months.
@@francescosirotti8178 I’m more familiar with the North American species, Larix laricina, which has good rot resistance. I assumed the wood properties would be similar.
Liselittle is looking fiiiine! That matte black is beautiful.
Excited to see what you and the expert have planned for the roof! Plus you can get some tips for waterproofing from them instead of several hundred American men in the comments who might not necessarily be familiar with the materials you're working with lol!
Okay hear me out: Instead of wheels, you mount Little Lotte on chicken legs and go full Baba Yaga.
Best idea 😂😂😂
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Someone is a dropout subscriber
omg yes
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How about instead of planting grass, you could do a meadow? You could use clover and some native ground cover plants, it would be good for pollinators and pretty to look at! + Little Lote looking stunning!
Glad you're doing as much as you can to waterproof around the windows.
Yes. Your tiny house looks fantastic on the outside.
She’s so beautiful!! I think I would slant those outside bottom boards on the windows to keep the water out.❤️🤗🐝
Looking good!
Good idea to pull that door trim up off of the bottom drop edge by a 5mm. End grain will soak up any moisture that collects there
I absolutely love the joy you show for your life.
Looking good. There is one thing that may cause trouble in the future. The black panels will expand and shrink (unless they are thermo treaded). There is zero space for this natural movement of the wood because of the structure of the corners 🤔
Wood generally expands the most in width not length...so except for minimal length expansion, being butted up against trim should not be a problem.
@@Andrea-bw8xm just 1% in 2 meters is allready 2cm. Something will give up
grass wird dort nicht sehr gut wachsen mit dem steinboden untendrunter. das wasser hat keinen boden in dem es längere zeit bleiben kann. bei uns ist im garten super deutlich die fäche zu sehen, die unten drunter 20cm max erde hat und dann schotter kies etc.
moos könnte ich mir vorstellen würde besser funktionieren. gibt auch tolle sorten die keine pflege brauchen und auch auf eine fixe höhe wachsen und nicht mehr wenn ich richtig liege.
die stelle mit der bushalte und der bar hat fast was von einem kleinen campingplatz :D erst recht wenn das tiny house fertig ist ^^
Bei den Fenstern würde ich am unteren Ende auf den Holzbrettern auch Fensterbänke aus Alu (wo oben) machen. Da kann das Wasser auch sich sammeln und über oder lang dann auch nicht innen fließen. Das möchte wir aber nicht noch einmal
The black finish is gorgeous.
Your tiny house is very beautiful bravo bravo very good job the red color wither black color is so lovely
WOW!!! Your Tiny house is Perfect and Love the red door,
It's very attractive. I love black as an exterior house colour contrasted with a natural blonde wood.
Maan the noises that these two make when something goes right are phenomenal! Cracks me up. :D
Glad to see you getting the exterior done.
Being from the north east here in the states, I'm not sure if you did enough water proofing.
We get lots of wind driven rain and snow here so we know how water can find it's way in.
I would have flashed all the way around the windows and door. I would have back-primed the siding, as well as flashed the corners too.
But, I don't have any experience in your climate, so I hope you have no more issues and everything goes well for you.
Looking brilliant everything is a step closer to a beautiful New small home xx
I really like how the top and middle door hinges in Europe are both near the top of the door. We don't do that in the US and it makes so much more sense.
The black siding looks like the burned wood Japanese technique, BEAUTIFUL!!!
It is really looking very, very nice indeed! For your outside area, I would do a mix of a gravel (beige looking rock) hard standing to put the caravan/tiny house on and nice lawns around it. The beige looking hard standing would fit with the wood on the Tiny House, look a little warmer and help protect the two trailers.
Laura really, really inspires me. Scares the crap out of me too. After years of craziness, I finally had enough money saved to buy a very crappy trailer that I'm trying to fix up and watching the set backs Laura has faced and kept her sanity gives me hope. But someone with the correct supplies, tools and knowledge having so many issues scares THE CRAP out of me lol. I seriously can't wait to see how both houses turn out!!!
Laura does not have much knowledge! She has made a point of saying so herself in most of her videos. She is constantly exploring the journey of learning (in some cases via hard knocks). If you need something to definitely work the first time, then you should bring experts into the mix as Laura has done on what she has deemed critical. Beyond that, just make sure you keep the mindset that learning involves failure, and while that can add time and expense, that time and expense are investments in your knowledge and skills for the future.
@@francescosirotti8178
On the other hand it's larch.
Larch is able to not be treated at all, and withstand the wether influences as sun, water, snow. It just turns to a silver grayish color, that's all.
In south Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the french and italian Alpes we have lots of houses in the mountains wich were never treated in any kind, and they last hundreds of years. Same in Russia, Poland and Balkan countries.
So what would be a big problem with soft pine, will be not such a big issue with larch.
Don't you agree?
I'd say don't listen to the experts who are naysaying. Nothing against them, but because they are experts, they are thinking only about getting it done properly and cheaply without wasting time or materials. Who can blame them? It's their job! But most amateurs are going into such projects for entirely different reasons. It's not about getting it done properly, cheaply, quickly, it's about enjoying the experience of learning and messing up and learning more, EVEN IF at the end of the day you spend way way way more time, money, and energy than an expert would have. In this life, not everything we do is for the product, sometimes things we do are to bring enrichment to ourselves.
@@francescosirotti8178
Totally agree about the knowledge!
In regards of the "survivors biais", I don't know from wich country you are, but here in Europe, especially in all regions of the Alps, there are several thousands of houses remaining, wich are way older than a hundred years. They knew how to build and how to adapt to each regional climat!
In northern Italy you find whole "ghost villages" where the population abandoned their houses since the sixties/seventies, so nobody maintained the buildings since then. But they are always there, and not in ruin at all. And the larch is always in good condition...
Another point you mentioned: the painting only on one side of the wood.
Look in the ancient technics to paint wooden houses in Sweden (the famous red ones), it's ALWAYS only the outer side! And they use mostly pine for construction, not even larch...
But in one point I agree with all the comments, Laura should have sealed the boards of the door and windows with flashing tape.
I used to work in the construction trade, working on projects the the original house was 100 or more years old. It is more like sculpture…best job ever.
Have you noticed that you've developed a grunting/sound communication, Felix & You? The future of this channel is wordless ;)
Laura, your vison is a vision. Beautiful job.
putting a swing in your outdoor area actually sounds like it would be such fun!
A beautiful addition. Well done! Keep it working!
Make sure you leave a gap for expansion and contraction
Well done!
I am a tad worried you didn't leave expansion joints on your siding, however, and you should always tape/caulk your flashing and wood.
Everything fit together so tight that when the wood expands it will start to crack your framing.
Also, you could have done sho sugi ban on the outside wood, that would have kept it black and waterproof for years but that's just me thinking out loud haha.
"This would be a great place to curate all my junk" is the best sentence I've heard ever. You're such an inspiration for sustainable DIY'ing!
how nice it is to see you happy on a sunny winter day!
1st You are a Great RUclipsr 2nd You are doing awesome on the outside of your tiny house 3rd when you have finished the siding you should use a silicone caulk to seal between the siding and framing to keep it from leaking through at the corners.
Wow! So great! Wonderful colors are just as you hoped they would be. I wish I was as confident as you are with big tools.
It really looks beautiful. If anything, I think the lower part of the frame around the windows should also have some slope to it as the upper part. Water from the rain, as we all know, does not always fall perfectly vertica. Other than that, beautiful job, indeed.
It looks beautiful. Wonderful color combination.
Finally, the sun shines on the tiny house. Soon it will be a home.
Your new tiny house is so beautiful. I am so very proud for you!
Everyone needs a Harry in their life!
Regards,
Etna.
I'm a former Architect living in Central Texas. Where we get very aggressive rain. You'd be amazed.
I suggest you get someone who knows a bit more about flashing surface and/or material changes. We're no longer limited to bent metal flashings, but even the fancy tapes and sealants have to be installed correctly.
(I've been eating up your videos for a number of years now, envying your abilities!)
As usual, it’s awesome- it’s the journey that makes you appreciate the result.
Would recommend a thin low fertility soil over the crushed stone area followed by a meadow seed mix from Pictorial Meadows, or local native equivalent. Leave a stone area under and around the house and a 5m fire break to the next structure.
Gut gemacht! Wirklich gut gemacht!