Our goal: travel trailer turned tiny home!
Hey everyone! Just stumbled upon these forums looking for websites to aid in my search for the right type of travel trailer for what me & my husband are looking to turn into our tiny home. I don't ...
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rexlion wrote:
My suggestion: if you plan to tear out and renovate, why not start with an empty shell? Buy a new cargo trailer and build the interior you desire. You can install thicker insulation (most travel trailers are poorly insulated) and it will be more comfy for climate control. Choose your heater and A/C, install windows, design a custom layout. Much easier to begin with a clean slate! Have a look at some of the build threads (with pictures) ***Link Removed*** .
I've considered this! Honestly got discouraged thinking about having to run all the plumbing & electrical from scratch by ourselves (we plan on doing all the reno's ourselves & we're both pretty handy but we're not plumbers or electricians, lol...)
Are there a lot of tutorials out there for this? I feel like it would all be pretty specific to the floor plan we'd decide on, as to where everything would need to be run & how it should be set up.
Also, honestly all the cargo trailer's I've seen for sale are twice or 3 times as expensive as the travel trailers I've seen (which makes no sense to me, considering, like you said, it's literally an empty shell).
