How Thick Should A Tiny House Floor Be

The thicknesses are as follows.

How thick should a tiny house floor be.

While we re talking about alternatives to 2 4 studs here are a few more. Home tiny house 24 x8 6 this is the long awaited much anticipated release of the home 24 tiny house designed by andrew and gabriella morrison. How to decide how big your tiny house should be. My tiny house sub floor framing was done with treated 2 4 s placed on 2 foot centers.

For a tiny house there s just one although it may be significant. Let s expand our house beyond that 17 2 span capability to 24 feet wide. The widest span in the floor joist span table in part 2 of this tutorial module showed that floor joists can span 17 2 if they are 2 x 12s spaced 12 o c. The layout of this 177sf 72sf in loft space home is open and spacious while keeping within legal road restrictions 8 6 wide x 13 6 tall.

Standard drywall installed on the ceiling below the floor adds a minimum of 1 2 inch to the floor thickness. We have two axles on our tiny house but if we did it over again we would have done 3 axles it was a crazy amount of work to weight every material that went into the build and when we moved it we emptied most of the interior contents. More about tiny house foundations and diy construction. Because each wall is 2 thicker you lose 4 of interior space compared to conventional framing.

The trick to framing is to have all your joists designed to be on 24 centers so when you place sub flooring which is 4 feet wide you know exactly where to screw into the floor joists. We highly recommend building on 3 axles it is better to buy more trailer than you think you need rather than less. What you might notice as you do your research is that a lot of tiny houses are around the 200 square foot mark so that would seem to be the norm. So the house dimensions will now be 24 x 13.

If you are interested in small houses and diy construction you will find many detailed information useful advice and step by step guide in the how to build a tiny house book which is available to be order in electronic or printed version here. Vinyl flooring is usually the thinnest choice for floors and 1 8 inch vinyl installed over 1 4 inch underlayment will add only 3 8 inch to the floor height. Tiny house sub floor framing. 7 16 15 32 and 1 2 inch thick panels require joists spaced 16 inches on center.

A standard college dorm room is likely to be around this size.