Hee hee, I just had the greatest day thinking further on the "smart car garage in the tiny house" and I realized that I can also get an inflatable hot tub to put in it's place, up against the openable door for hot tub evenings. Or take the tub away and install a large table for dinner guests. Planks on saw horses work great if you put a big nice sheet over them!
I also decided on the plumbing and it's going to extreme basic.
Water from the tiny house tank under the living room can come up just one single tap by the toilet and car park. A drain in the floor allowing car washing, hot tub use, and general spraying around with a shower curtain and shower head.
The shower will include a temperature handle with an on-demand water heater and a water pump powered from the tiny house batteries will also allow me to use this water for household cleaning. Water for drinking and hand washing can come from urns mounted above sinks which drain into holding buckets. The bathroom washing station can just have it's own discrete drain to the main shower drain. this exits via a simple drain opening to which one can attach a hose. A good screen is needed on top to catch anything that might plug a hose, in case I have to pipe it to a drain, ditch, garden, or compost. As grey water it won't need much.
The kitchen sink can just drain into a large bucket with a tap that comes out the side wall, a couple inches above the bottom so sludge collects for occasional slop-out instead of messing the drain tap on the wall. I should set it up so I can unmount it for cleaning out.
Toilet is going to be a moveable composting toilet behind a curtain. It's not very palatable for guests I'm afraid but it's going to be the most practical solution for me. Well, I might come up with a pretty looking commercial toilet, but I doubt it. I'm going slim on this build. So anyway, in the area where the smart car and scooter park during travel, if they're left outside I get a fairly large open space. It could be used for yoga or dancing, my form of working out. I could probably make my smart car park over my treadmill and keep the treadmill with this setup. Really, the only thing I did was open the wall, give up the idea of a nice bathroom space, and dump some cabinets. I may even be able to pile some portable storage into the living room during transit when the car is in there if I feel it necessaary.
I do rather prefer the idea of being able to choose to park my vehicles safe in the house with me.
So the way I'll have this house set up, with propane for heat, cooking, and refrigeration, I'll be able to go completely off-grid if I don't use my electrical stuff. I find that pretty easy when I'm in new places since I'd rather roam. this allows me to work on the wiring without having to invest in the battery banks and solar generator systems, the main computer, all those tricky systems, if I can't afford it. I can still set up a 110v plug-in system for when I have access to power, and possibly purchase a simple generator. I was also thinking if I could set up a good 12v system I could use my smart car to generate power. With an exhaust pipe out the garage door, it could sit there and quietly run in my house when I need to charge the system. I mean, even if I just plug in via the cigarette light while it idles, it's probably the most efficient and quiet generator I could want and would charge all my devices pretty good I expect. I don't think it requires high-revs for that.
I haven't forgotten either that the inside of the smart car has plenty of space for things that will sit in it's place after, like the folded up hot-tub during transport
Now if "Im hauling it with a nice truck, and want to stop here or there along my route, with no specificc destination or ETA, I won't want a lot of crap in the car. Keep in mind, the truck is also a place t put stuff. If Dan's along, it's stuffed to the gills with his work stuff. Or maybe we've got two and he's driving the reconditioned van pulling the tear drop trailer for his work stuff. That would actually be a really good system for him, tools in the trailer and materials in the van. I was thinking today that fixing up this van might well be the cheapest way to get a decent version of it. At any rate, if we've got a truck that's mine and a van that's his we can tow the trailer and the house, take our time, go where we like work freelance. I honesty have no intention of cutting him out of my plans any sooner than I really must, in the hopes that I don't. If he gets with the adventure and quits acting so scaared of every detail he'll be welcome to share it with me. I'd love to share it with him, but I'm not liking his world of hazards at every turn. He's too hyper-aware of the danger, and not nearly aware enoough of the beauty and he spoils my pleasure with it. hell, I'd probably settle for him learning to smile and nod quietly and not fight. I'd rather have him open minded and open hearted with courage
and confidence in both of us and our incredible strengths. Sadly, he's been busy getting crazier and I even wonder if he's got Azheimers. Not a chance of ever getting him tested so If that's it, things just wwon't impove, they'll get intolerable and I'll drive away one day. I really pray I can sell the house, pay off the bills, and have enough for a really styling truck to pull the house. Putting the car and scooter inside is just brilliant and there's enough room if we get a fucking big trailer to put a parking spot on it outside the house and that can even be an outdoor deck. AAgain, great place for the hot tub.
Oh man, I hope I can afford a good long trailer. 36' would be best, leaving me room for the ramps off the back. They stick out as far as the heigh of the truck bed when folded up. They need to be extendable and gentle enough for the little car to use easily. Or we can install a winch. That's smarter than driving it up. It's designed with an eye bolt for exactly that purpose. Once on the deck it's easy to roll into the house.. I wouldn't fit full on the deck, really, there'd only be aaround 6' to work with and you need room for the propane tanks too. Oh I wish I could jump to that stage of the jobb, LOL, but buying a trailer is going to be a challenge.
I also decided on the plumbing and it's going to extreme basic.
Water from the tiny house tank under the living room can come up just one single tap by the toilet and car park. A drain in the floor allowing car washing, hot tub use, and general spraying around with a shower curtain and shower head.
The shower will include a temperature handle with an on-demand water heater and a water pump powered from the tiny house batteries will also allow me to use this water for household cleaning. Water for drinking and hand washing can come from urns mounted above sinks which drain into holding buckets. The bathroom washing station can just have it's own discrete drain to the main shower drain. this exits via a simple drain opening to which one can attach a hose. A good screen is needed on top to catch anything that might plug a hose, in case I have to pipe it to a drain, ditch, garden, or compost. As grey water it won't need much.
The kitchen sink can just drain into a large bucket with a tap that comes out the side wall, a couple inches above the bottom so sludge collects for occasional slop-out instead of messing the drain tap on the wall. I should set it up so I can unmount it for cleaning out.
Toilet is going to be a moveable composting toilet behind a curtain. It's not very palatable for guests I'm afraid but it's going to be the most practical solution for me. Well, I might come up with a pretty looking commercial toilet, but I doubt it. I'm going slim on this build. So anyway, in the area where the smart car and scooter park during travel, if they're left outside I get a fairly large open space. It could be used for yoga or dancing, my form of working out. I could probably make my smart car park over my treadmill and keep the treadmill with this setup. Really, the only thing I did was open the wall, give up the idea of a nice bathroom space, and dump some cabinets. I may even be able to pile some portable storage into the living room during transit when the car is in there if I feel it necessaary.
I do rather prefer the idea of being able to choose to park my vehicles safe in the house with me.
So the way I'll have this house set up, with propane for heat, cooking, and refrigeration, I'll be able to go completely off-grid if I don't use my electrical stuff. I find that pretty easy when I'm in new places since I'd rather roam. this allows me to work on the wiring without having to invest in the battery banks and solar generator systems, the main computer, all those tricky systems, if I can't afford it. I can still set up a 110v plug-in system for when I have access to power, and possibly purchase a simple generator. I was also thinking if I could set up a good 12v system I could use my smart car to generate power. With an exhaust pipe out the garage door, it could sit there and quietly run in my house when I need to charge the system. I mean, even if I just plug in via the cigarette light while it idles, it's probably the most efficient and quiet generator I could want and would charge all my devices pretty good I expect. I don't think it requires high-revs for that.
I haven't forgotten either that the inside of the smart car has plenty of space for things that will sit in it's place after, like the folded up hot-tub during transport
Now if "Im hauling it with a nice truck, and want to stop here or there along my route, with no specificc destination or ETA, I won't want a lot of crap in the car. Keep in mind, the truck is also a place t put stuff. If Dan's along, it's stuffed to the gills with his work stuff. Or maybe we've got two and he's driving the reconditioned van pulling the tear drop trailer for his work stuff. That would actually be a really good system for him, tools in the trailer and materials in the van. I was thinking today that fixing up this van might well be the cheapest way to get a decent version of it. At any rate, if we've got a truck that's mine and a van that's his we can tow the trailer and the house, take our time, go where we like work freelance. I honesty have no intention of cutting him out of my plans any sooner than I really must, in the hopes that I don't. If he gets with the adventure and quits acting so scaared of every detail he'll be welcome to share it with me. I'd love to share it with him, but I'm not liking his world of hazards at every turn. He's too hyper-aware of the danger, and not nearly aware enoough of the beauty and he spoils my pleasure with it. hell, I'd probably settle for him learning to smile and nod quietly and not fight. I'd rather have him open minded and open hearted with courage
and confidence in both of us and our incredible strengths. Sadly, he's been busy getting crazier and I even wonder if he's got Azheimers. Not a chance of ever getting him tested so If that's it, things just wwon't impove, they'll get intolerable and I'll drive away one day. I really pray I can sell the house, pay off the bills, and have enough for a really styling truck to pull the house. Putting the car and scooter inside is just brilliant and there's enough room if we get a fucking big trailer to put a parking spot on it outside the house and that can even be an outdoor deck. AAgain, great place for the hot tub.
Oh man, I hope I can afford a good long trailer. 36' would be best, leaving me room for the ramps off the back. They stick out as far as the heigh of the truck bed when folded up. They need to be extendable and gentle enough for the little car to use easily. Or we can install a winch. That's smarter than driving it up. It's designed with an eye bolt for exactly that purpose. Once on the deck it's easy to roll into the house.. I wouldn't fit full on the deck, really, there'd only be aaround 6' to work with and you need room for the propane tanks too. Oh I wish I could jump to that stage of the jobb, LOL, but buying a trailer is going to be a challenge.