Engineering a TOURING Tiny House: See the Full Series
Corbett Lunsford
Grace and Corbett are building a performance-proven tiny house on wheels called the Tiny Lab! It's going to be built from November to February, and it starts a 16-city US Tour in March of 2016. The Crowd Sourcing Campaign is happening NOW on RocketHub- CLICK HERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TOUR! Here's the full series of four webinars from August 2015 detailing the engineering of a super cool tiny house on wheels!
In the first of four webinars on the Tiny Lab, Corbett and Grace Lunsford are joined by engineer John Bergman to demonstrate design that went into controlling the wind stresses, structural support, and practical considerations of a life on the road in a tiny house. #homeperformance #tinyhouse
Grace and Corbett Lunsford walk through the process of engineering their Tiny Lab, a tiny house taking them on the Proof Is Possible US Tour! Tonight's episode is on designing the barriers to heat bleed, air leakage, and water leakage. WORKING TINY LAB SPECS: Floor 2x6 with R-21 EcoBatt insulation.
Tiny home performance is made even more perfect in our third presentation in this tiny house engineering series! Watch as Corbett walks you through the design and engineering of the heating, cooling, dehumidification, bath and kitchen exhaust, fresh air ventilation, and water heating systems in the Tiny Lab.
Building performance experts Grace and Corbett Lunsford show off the luxurious little details of their touring tiny house, the Tiny Lab, which will tour 16 U.S. cities in 2016. Hear about formaldehyde-free plywood built-ins, composting toilets, foot pedal plumbing, tiny fridges fraught with danger, solar PV kits, and custom cat containment.
In #1: SHAPE AND LAYOUT, Corbett and Grace show the 3D sketchup model of the Tiny Lab, and bring engineer John Bergman in for some heavy lifting to do with pinpointing the center of gravity on this 24 ft trailer tiny house.
In #2: AIRSEALING, INSULATION, & WEATHER BARRIERS, tour the process of energy modeling the tiny house to determine the optimal R-values and level of airtightness, and hear about vapor barriers, moisture control, and drainage.
In #3: HEATING, COOLING, AND VENTILATION, you get a taste for how wrong a lot of the discussion goes about homes in general, and tiny homes especially. The HVAC design, including Manual J heat load calculations and hourly solar gain curves are analyzed and used for things as straightforward as deciding which direction to park the tiny house.
In #4: BELLS & WHISTLES, see behind the design of the solar PV kit, formaldehyde-free plywood built-ins, composting toilet, off-grid plumbing challenges, and luxury items that just add that quality of life that tiny house occupants are seeking.
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