Building the Weebee

[20012607]

What about traveling? Wouldn't it cause a lot of wind resistance, and is that noticeable while driving say, a truck pulling it? Also, where could you find those electric/water hook ups in a public place?

[keefo54]

Boring !!!! go find a vid about benefits to whine on

the rest of us are here to look at a great idea

[301sagonaraku]

i love the tiny hoise idea can you just imaine waking up one day and just deciding you wanna live by the lake or on by a mountain so you pick up your house and move

[SithRage]

If you had your own lot to park this, or let's say some place out of the way, how do you supply your own electricity? Solar panels?

[TumbleweedHouses]

@SithRage The houses are built to easily plug electricity and water. A solar power is also an alternative.

[cheesyforlife]

do you usually name the houses you build or do you let the customers name them?

[mnchaussen]

YOU CAN MAKE ONE FOR HALF (OR LESS) THE PRICE WAY. WAY.. WAY TOO OVERPRICED AND IF YOU NOT THAT HANDY HIRE A HANDYMAN STILL SAVE 20K

[Vidiwell100]

Love these houses. And loved the Westfalia in the backround.

[kerpan]

I am very interested in building one of these tiny houses when I am older. However, I am 6'6 so I would need one to fit my size, have you done any for taller people?

[scopein79]

Does anyone know if this is legally considerated as a trailer with a charge or as a caravan?

And if it is officially a trailer, is it legit to carry a charge wider than the trailer itself (notice the house being wider than the trailer)?

[rlrsk8r1]

@scopein79 It's wider than the deck of the trailer, but not wider than the wheel track. The wheel wells stick out.

[Information4us]

How many devices can be ran if i use solar panels like the one house you sold.

[kuei1248]

This is what people on welfare should be forced to live in.

[CrystalCOREE]

@kuei1248

you say it like people on welfare like being on it. fuck you. i am on aid for my daughter and i. i want to get one to live off the land, not because i am on aid. i want to live green and cheap, oh,yea, i am on welfare so you know i am poor. worked my entire life, just another working class smuck.

[kuei12]

@CrystalCOREE ..If you wanted off welfare you would be off welfare. Welfare offers free training. Have you taken any? Probably not. Free education is all over the internet you are using. Instead you spend your time and my money surfing youtube. Just have more kids so you can get more welfare.

[debit2ya]

@kuei12

i used someone elses account so- don't reply to that again.

you are an ignorant fuck to think it's easy to be off welfare rasing two children with no child support. i have worked, as i stated in the first blog, all through my childrens lives. i have had more training than you i am sure. i am working for free to care for my mother, so now i need help as my family doesn't pay me for my work-24/7 job. and a child. 1st time i have taken cash. i have paid taxes for 35 years asshole.

[kuei1248]

@debit2ya Easy to be off welfare? NO. It is hard work. When I was unemployed I took what money I had and went to auctions and garage sales to buy stuff to sell on ebay or flea markets. I took my son with me. I NEVER accepted ANY welfare. Not 1 food stamp or medical or money. You are on welfare because the government makes it easy to be lazy. Without welfare you would find a way to survive. And, you are the one who decided to have kids. Don't make us pay for your expensive mistakes!

[debit2ya]

@kuei12 yea, jobs are plentiful these days. some people are on welfare and work 40 hours a week. so gonna bash them too. i was one. training don't mean -it works.

i have more trades to survive than you will ever have. i saw this site on

accident-surfing-thats what you do-no life so attack others. oh and

welfare can be medical, food stamps or cash, doesn't mean all three

asswipe. if you get cash-you earn it. you look for work. i work. ignorant fuck.

you probably live at home with mommy.

[kuei1248]

@debit2ya Damn right I will bash ANYBODY on welfare. It is just laziness. When I was making $5/hr I rode my bike 7 miles each way to work and rode it to school after work every night. I never took welfare. I have too much pride. I taught myself to survive. If I was in a dead end job I quit and took a pay cut to get trained in a better trade. I never used an excuse or sat on my ass when I needed money. I went out and earned it. Stop making excuses for being lazy!

[satchisatchi]

The best thing about these is the brilliant design. Reduce! Its the difference between the guy with the gigantic wallet and the guy with an id, and a $100 bill.

[DerekNS74]

How do you get around the fact that the tiny house greatly exceeds the load rating of the trailer you are using, making it illegal to transport?

[kurumako]

These houses generally weigh in right around the load rating of the trailers they're built on.

[TumbleweedHouses]

The house weighs about 5,000 lbs. The weight capacity for the trailer is 7,500 lbs.

[bigDbigDbigD]

@TumbleweedHouses: From your response it sounds like 5000 is an estimate. I would be interested to know actual weight when you get it weighed. thanks.

[Kiger336]

owned

[flyinmudman]

@TumbleweedHouses how much would this model cost?

[Invalidstyrkan]

Man that thing looks absolutely gorgeous! I want one so bad haha.

[ZeMexicanPirate]

Much more vulnerable to Natural Disasters?

I do like this idea much more though (: I could live like that easily (:

[diTaykan]

@ZeMexicanPirate

I don't know, if you're in Florida or Louisiana and a hurricane is heading your way... just disconnect from the water/electric/whatever, hook up to a vehicle, and off you go with all of your things. Assuming it's your primary residence.

[h5e5l5l5o5]

I would much rather live in the penguin house...

[prestige334]

i love these little houses. they are cute!

[Evonne77]

these could do wonders to help the homeless and not just them, but regular everyday people who want to downsize their lives and have more freedom, people who have lost their homes because of disasters, this is an awesome idea.

[301sagonaraku]

@Evonne77 i totally agre the only problem whould be the locations of it specially for the 'homeless" that might be mentally unstable.

[Evonne77]

@301sagonaraku: hmmm, perhaps a sort of care compound could be set up for those that arent stable, one where they could be monitored and taken care of while there.

[301sagonaraku]

@Evonne77 awesome idea!!!!!!!

[Evonne77]

@301sagonaraku: I think it could really work! theres so much that can be done with that idea.

[logansci]

my family is planning on putting all the money together and make like 4 in our dads dads 2 acres

[Prethenie]

Have you checked the zoning. I called today...and unforunatley not where I am? :(

Surrounded by woods.

[RandyWayneFricke]

Friggin' awesome! I could abide comfortably in one of those. Easy to keep up. Nothing to heat or cool etc... I don't think people (especially men and women) were meant to co-habitate. Don't believe me? Try getting married and talking the misses into agreeing on a NASCAR bedroom motif or DALLAS COWBOYS wallpaper in the living room. Noooooo. It's always flowers or butterflies or some such crap like that.

[rlrsk8r1]

@RandyWayneFricke What gets me is a woman's tendency to decorate around curtains. She buys new curtains, and then repaints the room, buys a new area rug, re-upholsters the furniture, and adopts a new cat to match them.

[edwinstar100]

Does anyone know who the music is by? Thanks, E-star

[juniper30]

OMG!! My husband and I could each have one and if we tick each other off, well...no harm no foul! :D

(I tend to be a little claustrophobic...)

[markhinr]

Might be great for a retiree who likes to move his/her residence with the seasons. Functionally similar to a trailer or RV except without all the plastic and fiberboard. Cool! :-)

[will3482]

Great for anyone, not just retiree's. We need to get out of the mindset of getting old and then we start to make the right decisions.

[TruthLightSeeker]

Super cute! :) I love the details of the exterior......this isn't some throw-together cabin, its a real house. How much does it cost to build one?

[chriscmm0]

What if the house catches on fire? It'd burn before you could put it out!

[100foldharvest]

Who makes that micro fire-place?

[Membrane556]

I once saw something a lot like this but made to fit on the back of a truck sorta like a camper.

[DeathByMullet]

Uh.... what if some body in a pickup rolled off with your house while you are at work. haha! how do you explain that to the cops.

[BananaHurricane]

I know lol. I've been interested in these little houses for a few months and the only issue I have is theft. It seems too easy for somebody to get away with it.

[wait887]

a shotgun will take care of that. And large slabs of concrete.

[EnochMcDonald]

for a about a hundred bucks you can buy a GPS, also putting a warning sticker warning other that their is a GPS will deter most thieves. Also, wheel locks and trailer hitch locks are other options.

[Fire4FX]

Great company name & thanks for sharing all of your videos. Truly inspiring!

[cdltpx]

I have slept on park benches and would love to have a house like this rather than be there again the police want you to hide if youre outdoors. Everything is a matter of perspective I bet those that are forclosed would love to have one of these. Place a screened enclosure outside add a hammock some other devices you have a place to be comfortable as long as you meet your ends freely think about it you could work min wage and have money to take a cruise every now and then.Beats going to jail.

[manoman0]

cosy cosy, but just a wee bit too small, don't you think so?

[LucyWarner2010]

It does have possibity for people to live cheap. We need this way to help people.

Go for it.

[LucyWarner2010]

You need water and some way to wash your clothes. You need plumbing to wash by hand

your clothes. Water is precious in life.

[plutoplatters]

excellent idea,etc. But.. i cannot help from think about the tons of available classic trailers out there for only a couple of thousand bucks,already set up,etc...

[DontPanic6X7]

Less is more- good job

[alzathoth]

why live big with all the high costs of living and consumerism, when you can live small. :)

[biscuitninja]

Have you ever thought about building with SIPs (structural insulated panels - stress skin panels....). Super efficient, goes up fast, light and very, VERY strong. I'm sure the outside would be done within a day or so....

Wonderful homes... hope to get one or two myself.

[shortscalebass]

An outstanding "tiny" house!...great music also

[SpiderMan1307]

I have a few questions...1) If you dont own property, where do you park it and what if you put it in a place where you'll "get in trouble"? lol

2) How does the plumming work? they dont tell you how the water comes from? Its not like that little house has pipes runing through it too, does it? :P

[ClamLuvr]

SpiderMan1307, It doesn't have plumbing. That is part of the challenge of living in it. By the way, you can get a travel trailer with plumbing for about the same price.

[Watthiman]

About the same price? This thing is about $43,000 maybe more. I bought a 2007 30ft Lancing travel trailer for $22,000 and it is more than double the size of this "house" has ten times the usable space and storage and will tow a lot better than this thing.

[ClamLuvr]

Watthiman, You're right about the price. And that emphasizes my point even more about the value or lack of it. These houses are cool to look at and have some features that people could incorporate into their own designs. But these houses (actually RV trailers) are VERY expensive. By the way, I should have finished watching the video before I said anything about plumbing. His other houses I looked at didn't have any. So I assumed this one didn't.

[TumbleweedHouses]

Our houses are built with plumbing, however some people (including the company founder) prefer to compost. The plumbing is similar to an RV. These houses are designed to comfortably withstand below freezing temperatures, and the material cost is much higher than a conventional RV due to that. They do classify as an RV, but our customers usually buy them as their primary residence. Once you step inside, you can't stop dreaming about one.

[Zarbod]

Looks cool to me. I just bought a house like these though 300 sq ft. I plan to fix it up nicely like these. Pretty inspirational.

[tm11111111]

TumbleweedHouses, when people were building in this video, does that mean that the customer has to put it together him/herself or the company who makes these put them together and sell them to someone?

another question, say if I bought one, would that mean that i have to pay rent or other paments after buying?

[mvaussies]

It is MUCH better insulated. More for real living in.

[JRodriguez757]

Amazing. Very affordable too and portable, which is what I like best. I want a small home like this to live in the rural country.

[Watthiman]

I would'nt call it amazing. I'd call it a RV/travel trailer that's designed to look like a tiny home.

I have a similar building in my back yard. We call it a shed.

[ClamLuvr]

Watthiman, You are totally correct. Legally it is an RV/travel trailer. That's why he can ignore the building codes. It is not considered to be a house.

[Watthiman]

Right and that's also why you will have problems putting this thing anywhere but a campground and why you will not legally be able to live in it in most places.

[rckrchck]

Can you tell us more about the electrical/plumbing systems and how your able to move these from place to place?

[corbyjames]

Maybe not for everybody but, like an electric car, wouldn't this work for most? I dream of a 'development' of these places that would be a wonderful alternative to the McMansion collectives popping up all over.

[Hornycricket]

my favorite by far is the B-52 Bungalow... i just need to find some property to put it on..

What are the chances of y'all setting up some kind of tour in Nebraska?

[Mortarsprayer]

Hello Jay,

Nice Job. What wasthe finished weight of the home?

[ElecticSoul]

I was just thinking.. I'm ordering a set of plans as soon as I get back to the US. Look forward to it. Keep up the good work, Jay.

[ElecticSoul]

This would make a great project. I like this idea of small living.

[quicktimeba]

Awesome house!!