We started by looking at car haulers, which a lot of people have built on. But, after having read "Tiny House Decisons" by Ethan Waldman, we decided to go with a trailer built for a tiny house. Ethan had a trailer that was given to him and spent a lot of time and money refurbishing it. So, the trailer was free, but the work it took sounded like a huge pain in the butt. Darrin and I figure, this is our foundation... might as well start with something new and sound.
Next, we looked into getting a Tumbleweed Tiny House Trailer. These are nice trailers with some extras especially for tiny houses. We came damned close to ordering one, but hadn't seen any tiny houses in person, so were holding off for that.
After visiting the Caravan Tiny House Hotel and talking to Ben (the builder) there we decided to look into Iron Eagle for a trailer. The week after we came back from Portland, I called Iron Eagle and talked to Rob, their PAD Series salesman (PAD = Portland Alternative Dwellings). Through Rob I found out that there is a distributor about 10 mins from us, (crazy!) who sells the PAD Series trailers and had 3 on order to be delivered the next Monday. He suggested we go take a look at them. We still planned to drive to Fairview Oregon to pick one up directly from Iron Eagle, because they were $1,000 bucks cheaper.
When we visited Trailers NW on Maple Valley highway, we found the trailers hadn't been delivered yet, but they did have a couple of 20' trailers they could show us. We also found that the $1,000 difference was because the trailers they sell are equipped with wheel flashing, attached leveling jacks and metal bed sheeting. Darrin definitely wanted the metal sheeting, and since that was a huge part of the price difference we decided to go for it!
Diggie inspected it for us and gave us the go ahead... next we need to lock down a design!
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