2019 August
Tiny House | More Debris | Vacation, ….
To-Do List
Power / Solar PV
Water/Well Pump
Tiny house arrival
Getting clear on permits
Still not done
LA County – Debris removal certification
Building permit
Electricity
Water / Well
Phone | Internet
Widen gate = destroying our stone pillar
To move our tiny house on to the property – surprise! – we needed to widen the gate. Our tiny house builder did not give us proper measurements, so we after months of waiting and a few months delay in completion, thud, no one could get the darn thing on to the property. There was only one choice: tear down one of the few relics of beauty left, in hopes of rebuilding it later. It was so sad to see our stone pillar getting destroyed. It took a few days of hard labor and heavy machinery – and a big unexpected expense. The tiny house builder from Alabama – Timbercraft Tiny House – does very nice craft work, and they were sweet to work with, but did not even respond when we sent them the bill for the error and asked for help. That was disappointing, as we were hoping to get to recommend them far and wide.
On the bright side, we are so grateful Daniel from Malibu Landscape helped to move the tiny house. And also to Michael Carmona tiny house insurance, who came in at a fraction of the cost of my broker’s tiny house insurance recommendation, and with better coverage. Better still – they insure non-certified tiny houses, so next time, we will build our own! We went with a certified builder mainly to be sure of being insurable, so we are excited to have this solution.
Next on the horizon – the fire department has requirements for entry gates, and at the moment we don’t know how wide our gate needs to be. We can’t design the new gate until we know its final size.
But the tiny house is on the property, and we are one big step closer to moving “home.”
More debris to get rid of
8 containers of debris, concrete, railroad ties, and more burned junk…
Thanks to Brian for the hard work while we are taking a much-needed vacation.
Clean up our veggie garden
Our veggie garden was built before we bought the house using pressure-treated wood to do the framing. All burned, and now we are concerned about the toxics in our soil.
We don’t know when the garden was built, but we do know that before 2003 the preservative most commonly used was chromated copper arsenate (CCA), an extremely toxic chemical.
Burning this pressure treated-wood can cause exposure to toxic ash! So we have to completely overhaul the soil in the garden.
Palm tree stump removal
Removing the palm tree stump took us a whole day. Palm trees have extensive root structures hidden below the soil and numerous thin roots extend into the ground.
