Connecting My Tiny Home Floor Halves And Cutting Floor Boards

I have learned a lot about tiny house construction in the last months and I am back at building my tiny house on wheels.

I am first sealing up the floor joists with insulation all the way to the top. I is a good thing I am doing this on video so that people can catch my mistakes and help out on the way. I would probably not have caught that in time.

I am using some rolls of fiberglass insulation that I had left over from my RV repair to fill in the outer edges of the tiny home floor all the way around the outer perimeter. This will create a nicely selaed off area under the floor.

Due to shifting of the trailer frame from rain I do not trust my level or square right now. Even though on the weekend my friends and I leveled off the trailer and squared the floor and the trailer, things seem off again.

For that reason right now I am only cutting the floor boards to fit and just dry fitting them into place for now.

To rip a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood in half neatly along the 8 foot length I used a board as a circular saw guide so I could get a perfect straight cut. I measured the saw base between the outside edge and the saw blade. It is exactly one inch. So I made markings on my board where I want my cut to be and also one inch away from the cut where my guide board will be clamped. For the first cut I only have to draw a line one time along the length of my plywood. This was so I could check my guide board to see if it was straight. I laid the board along the straight line on my plywood to see if the guide board was straight. It is.

Then I clamped the guide board in place and simply cut a perfectly straight line with my circular saw.

I pulled apart the two halves of my floor so that I could get some liquid nails in there before screwing them together. The tiny home builders book I have been reading actually suggests making your floor frame in three parts but I went with two equal halves.

I used some C clamps to secure the two halves in place while I screwed the them together. I lifted the insulation up out of the way in order to get some screws down lower in the floor as well.

This is the first half of the work I did on Thursday. The rest will follow soon.

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