How to roof the tiny free house with pallet wood

This is a fairly long and boring video showing how slow it is to build a pallet house. Pallets are free but are difficult to work with which slows construction down.

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• pallets
• pallet house
• tiny house
• roofing
• roof

[festyxfi]

Good job! Fuck all these nay-sayers here my friend, keep doing your thing while they sit on their asses watching youtube until the cable is turned off. And yes, California is a goner--along with the rest of the country and it's broken system Good day sir.

[tinyhousefriend]

@festyxfi LMAO! Yeah I pretty much ignore them and enjoy the monetized traffic :-)

[jakehall12]

where do i get the pallets from because i have a house with no roof

[tinyhousefriend]

@jakehall12 - On the roof I only used the pallet wood on top of 2x4 rafters. A small shed roof (or tiny house) can be possible with pallet wood but be very careful with things (like roof framing) over your head.

Pallets are often free. Ask first before loading them into your truck. Check auto dealers, auto body shops, motorcycle shops, carpet stores, roofing contractors, and heat and air shops.

[mharrop396]

pallet wood free---pallet wood screws-$42,000...

[joeyandfred101]

This video scares me. Plus, I took an arrow to the knee!!

[MrDaddio34]

i would think it would be much easier to use a nailgun....about a 3 or 4 hundred dollar investment if u don;t already have an air compressor...would cut the time and probably eat the cost of the screws too

[banq0o]

respect!

[deathmarch5]

could run them 4 inches appart the use wood shakes made of cedar would cost you 400 dollars for a 40 year roof.

[ingeniero3aleman]

very lever to use a cable driven and not a battery dependend electric drill. The rechargable batteries are the industries trick to keep us producing (toxic) waste ! A cable with line power is so much more usefull and never gives up. That is what I do also.

But actually considering the price of the screws and the time setting them an automatic stapler would be a wise investment!

[MrMagicseeds]

realy nice build i would of done the slats long ways down an overlaped themlike tiles on real roof id do it with the whole lengths but would look better with smaller bits more of a tile affect if you know wot i mean and id put more supports made of pallets holding roof up and on corners because it is a trailer

[judomoose1]

the idea is nice, but youve taken all the structural integrity from the roof by sawing slats to 16". you would be better off at leadt by using 32" pieces and stagger them. i hope you font get much of a roof load or high wind zone wherever you are. your rafter are gonna look like swiss cheese when you are done. but cool low budget idea. just needs a little common building knowledge.

[andy2038]

@s37d thats silly.......maybe some truth to it but it was done this way a lot before 4x8 ply........

[SpiritsisterEBR]

Did you ever finish it?

[s37d]

In my opinion, you compromised the structural integrity of the rafters by using pallet boards for roof sheathing. Due to the boards' narrow width, you had to use more screws to fasten them in comparison with larger sheathing found in a typical house, such as plywood 4x8's or 1x12's. Because you used what looks like one screw every few inches, the underlying rafters are going to want to split apart, the screws acting like wedges.