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For my next trick, I will make my Tiny House disappear!<\/p>\n

\"2016-08-02<\/a><\/p>\n

As the lack of updates hinted, progress on the tiny house slowed to a crawl this year, mostly due to the difficulty I had trying to find someone who could do the interior plumbing.\u00a0 Without the plumbing installed I couldn’t do the insulation, or the rest of the interior finishing.\u00a0 I had researched doing it myself, but I knew I would sleep a lot better knowing that a professional has installed my propane lines.\u00a0 In July I started researching tiny house building companies and found one that could finish the entire job for me.\u00a0 I’m somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t push through and do it all myself, but I’m satisfied with what I did do and learned along the way.<\/p>\n

So, on August 2nd, Anderson Page from Tiny House Crafters<\/a> hitched his buddy’s truck to my house and we started to take the weight off the jacks for the first time since 2014.\u00a0 At one point the house definitely settled, and even rolled back a few inches, but we put plenty of cinder blocks behind it so it didn’t go anywhere.\u00a0 One of the jacks also broke with a loud crack, but luckily it wasn’t catastrophic and it’ll be fixable.<\/p>\n

\"2016-08-02<\/a>
It’s a little hard to see, but there’s a horizontal piece that split when the rusted jack gave out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Given the trouble we had getting the trailier in the yard<\/a>, I was worried that we’d bottom out the trailer removing the house.\u00a0 So we used some of my plentiful scrap wood to create a ramp for the house to lift up the wheels as we went.<\/p>\n

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\"2016-08-02<\/a>
Anderson and Brett line the hitch with the ball.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"2016-08-02<\/a>
We used 4x4s and 2x4s as a ramp for the trailer. This help lift up the whole trailer so it would bottom out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"2016-08-02<\/a>
We also put boards under the truck’s wheels , again to keep things as high as possible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"2016-08-02<\/a>
It was super close, but didn’t scrape!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"2016-08-02<\/a>
At this point we’re home free<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n