Tiny
house living is not for the faint of heart.
It takes guts and muscles and true grit. Having a bit of a screw loose doesn’t hurt either.
We had
a good hard freeze at 19° about mid November which resulted in the spigot,
where we hook our heated line into, freezing up and developing a leak, which I
discovered once it had thawed. Not
enough heat tape and insulation in that particular area. Landlady had left town with no way to contact
her so in order to continue to have water it fell on me to fix it. That figures.
A
friend of mine came over and put an epoxy patch on it and then wrapped it with
heat tape and extra insulation. So far,
so good. It seems to be holding. At night I turn off the water and whenever I
leave, just in case it springs a leak again.
So other than the inconvenience of having to turn the water on and off
we are just happy to have running water.
I keep
extra water jugs filled too so we can flush the toilet when the water is off at
night and in case it should freeze up again although that doesn't seem too
likely now. My friend really knows how
to insulate a pipe.
I
bought a small space heater for my bedroom since it was getting pretty chilly
up front. I'm trying to conserve propane
by running electric heat. I face the
heater out to the main area and it heats up my room plus augments the main
heater nicely. They are plugged into
separate circuits so we don't trip any breakers when they are both
running. I find I don't have to run the
smaller one much, except when it gets down below freezing. We are staying nice and toasty warm.
Last
week I discovered some moisture on the ceiling above my bed. That was a huge concern, especially since
we'd had no precipitation and we'd done a thorough inspection of the roof a
month ago plus it had been inspected prior to my purchase. I discovered it was actually caused by a
buildup of condensation inside the cabinet along the roof at the front of the RV. Once I wiped off all the moisture and allowed
it to dry I watched it and all was fine.
Now I just leave one of the cabinet doors open and it stays dry inside. Fortunately nothing was damaged by the
moisture. Just another one of those
quirky things about air tight RVs.
With
winter coats out and extra jackets I needed a storage solution for that. The end of the cabinet above our dinette
proved to be the perfect place to install some hooks. Now our coats have a place to hang,
conveniently located next to the front door, and we are no longer having to
shuffle them around. We all decided that
is the best thing we've done to this place so far.
My youngest making rolls. |
Topped with freshly whipped cream this pie was delicious! |
We made
it through Thanksgiving too. Granted,
this year we were guests somewhere else, but we made two pies and a pan of
rolls to take to dinner in our tiny kitchen and oven and it was fabulous. Christmas dinner will be prepared at home and
will be our biggest meal prepared in our tiny home to date. We have no doubts we can pull it off. Figuring out where to put the Christmas tree
is our biggest challenge right now.
I'm
sure by a lot of people's standards they probably think we are a little nuts
and you know what? I'm okay with
that. I don't regret my decision to live
tiny one bit, because we are still having a lot fun!
I don't think you are nuts, and am learning from you. We still have not picked up our RV and even then, we won't live in it full time. But we might someday.
ReplyDeleteI am always interested to read about your small space living. Do you plan to live there long term? I think I may have asked you once, but what is the coldest it gets there?
ReplyDeleteThat pie looks yummy!!