Bob's caboose build

[bobhenry]

The fiberglass tub that came with the camper would be adequate ,but does it look like it belongs in a caboose?

Na !

I could simply install a stand up shower and save a ton of room ( and it hasn't been totally ruled out yet) but I am attempting to utilize things from the house that I really don't want to let go of in the transition.

[bobhenry]

Bob, They make fiberglass bathtubs that could fit you and weigh a lot less than iron. They call them "Garden" bathtubs. (I have no idea why....I wouldn't take a bath in the garden.) At the widest part of the inside of the oval shape, the tub part is 33" wide by 53" long. From the outside, the measurements are roughly 40x58" but, being fiberglass, you could probably trim some of the excess off. If you could find a display model somewhere, maybe you could sit in it and see how that feels to you.

You are gonna die laughing..... The claw foot tub sets on a well screened section of my deck and has been plumbed into the house for hot and cold water. There is nothing like a 2 AM summer soak while stareing at the stars and a light summer breeze to help you appreciate the warmth of the water.

[bobhenry]

I would definitely put curtains on those desk windows. It would be a downright pain to have to put away your deskwork everytime someone had to tinkle.

I like the idea. This is the first usable idea I've seen for a multi-use bathroom.

EEWWEEE ! You tinkle in your bathtub ! OK OK once in a while but not "EVERY TIME"

[WhitneyK]

I would definitely put curtains on those desk windows. It would be a downright pain to have to put away your deskwork everytime someone had to tinkle.

I like the idea. This is the first usable idea I've seen for a multi-use bathroom.

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EEWWEEE ! You tinkle in your bathtub ! OK OK once in a while but not "EVERY TIME"

Just don't let anybody catch you!

[loaderman]

Great idea!
Be sure to have strong exhaust fan so there is no moisture wrecking any papers in the "office" area.


I had wondered about having a dining table over a tub/shower and now see it as totally possible

[ParTaxer]

Bob, are you planning on having this permanently plumbed?

Mike

[S. Heisley]

Bob, They make fiberglass bathtubs that could fit you and weigh a lot less than iron. They call them "Garden" bathtubs. (I have no idea why....I wouldn't take a bath in the garden.) At the widest part of the inside of the oval shape, the tub part is 33" wide by 53" long. From the outside, the measurements are roughly 40x58" but, being fiberglass, you could probably trim some of the excess off. If you could find a display model somewhere, maybe you could sit in it and see how that feels to you.

You are gonna die laughing..... The claw foot tub sets on a well screened section of my deck and has been plumbed into the house for hot and cold water. There is nothing like a 2 AM summer soak while stareing at the stars and a light summer breeze to help you appreciate the warmth of the water.

You're right! I did laugh! So, you're a "skinny" dipper, huh?!

[bobhenry]

Bob, are you planning on having this permanently plumbed?

Mike

The desk or the tub ?

[bobhenry]

I intend to use the rv stool and the black water tank for the short term. I am looking at two places, both of which previously had homes on the site, so well and septic should be made easily possible. I am thinking that diverting most (but not all) of the liquids to a fensel lense powered distiller/evaporator will greatly reduce the volumn of grey and black water that will have to be dealt with in the short term. This focused solar distiller is something untried as near as I can tell so I am not certain what solids may be left to possibly be delt with and whether there will be any apprecable lingering odor accompaning these dry remains.

[bobhenry]

If you are looking for the usual Monday update it is very boring. I did tote out a ton of drawers, cabinets, hinges ,spice racks ,water tanks, doors ,and other building fodder and tucked it in the empty front bedroom of the house. I took the time to pickup all the small shavings and chunks of blue foam . I now have a half of a rick of tiny fire wood logs from the lumber cutoffs. A good brooming and I gathered up a half a bag of loose junk from the floor.

A roaring stiff wind kept me inside the caboose running electric and applying yet more and more layers of foam in the walls where the electric runs had been completed. I would say that 1/2 of the wall cavities are now full and complete and ready for drywall. The roof has about 4 of the 10 bays with some insulation installed. I need to drill the sandwiched plywood trusses for the in ceiling electrics ( AC & DC ) and the 2" light gage pvc hvac ducting. It was nice to have the junk out of the way as the caboose was starting to look more like a storage locker than a tiny house project. In walking in and out thru the mud and up and down the 4 steps up the deck and into the house I somehow managed to twist the hell out of my ankle so Sunday was spent taking aspirin and hobbling to the frige for barley pops. I did manage to build my gal pal a soap cutter. Pics in a bit.......

[bobhenry]

A home built soap cutter.....







A commercial soap cutter is a bit over $200.00. I had Nan hunt down a junk guitar and used the tuning keys to tention the cutting wires. The oak frame was some old skid lumber.

Even wrapped the legs with some non skid shelf liner.

Oh yeah ! Anybody recognize the lexan loaf stop. Yep its still parts of Chubbys lexan roof
(buit in 08' )

[mezmo]

Some exterior Caboose pics on Dec 24, 2012:

http://tinyhouseblog.com/category/small-house-feature/

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

[bobhenry]

Some exterior Caboose pics on Dec 24, 2012:

http://tinyhouseblog.com/category/small-house-feature/

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

Nice pics of the grab bars and the window rain deflectors some more railroad (esk) fixtures to concider

[bobhenry]

Christmas day was just me and the dog so I decided to utilize my time and get the doors for the caboose FULLY functional.

A horrific wind storm a few days earlier has torn the temporarly installed rear door off off its hinges. I had installed it as a weather barrier and had just used one drywall screw in the top and bottom hinge. I had not even installed door stops. The door was in swing but the vacuum created by the wind sucked the door outward and pryed the screwheads thru the hinge holes as they were a bit undersized.

Well I decided to replace the door with a narrower 15 lite door and carried it out side and while doing so, realized this was an interior french door with no insulated glass. Not wanting to give up the effeciency of an insulated door I decided to use the original door that I had carried to the garage. So retriving the originally installed door I weighed my options. Since I was building my own opening I took the opportunity to make the door an outswing. The observation platform allowed me this luxuary , and was a great way to save some interior space. This required reversing the hanging hinges removing the passage lock and the dead bolt and reversing all of them. I temporarily hung the door and marked the hinges for mortising. It was then removed and I spent the next 30 minutes looking for one of the 3 good wood chisles I own, all to no avail. So being resourceful I removed the iron form a small block plane and use it. It actually worked as well or better than a chisle despite not having a handle for control. Mortised the hinges and reinstalled the door and all was good. I cut and installed the door stops. Missing a passage lock catch I remembered a brand new unopend passage lock set I had found during the hunt for my chisles. I retreived it and was very excited that it was toatlly complete with keys, so I removed the old passage lock set and installed this new one. This one had the florentine lever, which I much prefered , rather than a round knob . The rear door now FULLY operational with all stops installed and lockable my attention turned to the side door. It came with the old style lock and I really liked the look so I measured carefully and installed a passage lock catch plate by drilling trimming and mortising this hardware. Although I could locate no dead bolt catch plate I did go ahead and drill for the deadbolt as well. I had gotten lucky at Goodwill last week and purchased a white super heavy duty grab bar ( 99 cents) . I installed it on the exterior side wall within reach of the steps so as to be able to use it for a stabilizer when climbing the 3 ice and snow covered side steps.

This doesnt really sound like much work but it did exhaust 3-4 hours and I was ready to go inside and get out of the cold. A couple Christmas highballs and some boiled hot dogs for dinner and I settled in to soak up the heat from the wood stove and stare at the idiot box trying to avoid anything Christmas.

Bah - Hum - Bug Bob

[droid_ca]

Sounds like you were able to best utilize your time and get lots of work done ..I did some of the same started working on a bar idea for my trailer