Update 5.5.13
Here is this days progress. I started the pallet siding. Here are some pictures:
The stove being reassembled, it looks gret, I can't believe how much better it looks
And installed
Procrastinating the siding I decided instead to plan the seedlings I started a few weeks back
Here they are, various flowery vines that should look pretty on the side of my house
And planted
With no more options I have to put siding up... I prepped a lot of pallet wood previously but I still had to do some, here I am planing down the wood in order to stain it in the end, one pass through
Second pass
Third pass
and final fourth pass, every board has to go through about this many passes or more. Pallet wood is mostly free but ridiculously labor intensive
I got a few rows up and needed a break.
I was thinking about doing mitered edges at the corners but because they are all slightly different thicknesses and wood tends to shrink at different rates I thought it would be better to do finger joints like this
This is as far as I got done today.
The porch
porch 2
overall
This is the reason to wear a mask when cutting this stuff, these pallets are all used and coated in various amounts of whatever, in an effort to not breath this cocktail of chemicals in you really should wear a mask, You don't want this stuff floating around in you. I am using all of the pallet wood outdoors as well, you wouldn't really want it installed indoors for the same reasons. I think for my rain-screen wall it will be ok.
I am also making a lettuce tower.
and the tower on the porch 🙂
Another shot I guess
this is the trellis which is rather saggy now that it has warmed up a bit. Not a huge fan but it should work and Im just going to cut it down at the end of the season.
I also caulked all of the trim indoors
My lovely kitchen minus some open shelving up above
Much better color match, you can also see the brand of washer I got here.
I had to epoxy on the oven handle, the screws fell apart
The water heater JUST BARELY fits. I have like an 1/8 of an inch to spare with the vent
I cut some boards for the bathroom sink, not complete but planed and ready to go.
I cleaned up and showered then got ready to head out and came upon 9 people hanging out on my tiny house porch, my folks were showing their friends, Tobi also showed up, she seems to like the patio
and his picture taken
I forgot to include how we got the washer dryer in the house
It's handy to have a dad with a tractor.
The siding is going to look so cool! It’ll be worth it, keep going! Also, what about doing the strings for the trellis vertically?
I’m not sure how I can attached them vertically… hmm, I think that would look cool!
By using the furring strips under the siding, is it functioning more as a rain sheild?
That is exactly the plan, those furring strips are caulked behind so when I nail through them they are still a water barrier 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
Hi I like your pallet timber cladding but I am pretty sure it will rot soon because there is no overlap so rainwater comes in between and behind the cladding.
It will be stained, sealed and vented, should be fine. It is a rain-screen assembly.
that siding looks like SO much work. I can see why you’ve been doing everything else first… haha. I like the finger joint corner detail. Great solution.
how about eye screws and wire for the trellis? the wire will be less likely to sag. that’s what they use for vine covered site walls…
Thanks again Carrie- that is/was actually the plan for the trellis but the growing season came too fast! I haven’t ordered the cables and parts yet but wanted to get something growing on there to try it out, I liked the twine because I can cut it down and restring it at any point (I used eye-hooks). I don’t like that it sags with the weather changes but it will be awesome if at the end I can take some scissors and cut it down at the end of the season, I feel like that may make it ‘worth’ the sagging, it makes it much more functional! We will see though, I am concerned if it is tough enough to hold up all the weight but time will tell 🙂
Hmmm, yeah, and twine is good because it will biodegrade, unlike wire…