Our goal: travel trailer turned tiny home!

Mother.of.Dragons wrote:

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).

You might take a look at the cargo trailers offered factory direct by this mfr. They seem affordable. As for plumbing or electrical tutorials, I don't know. You can find almost anything on the internet nowadays, though, so do some exploring. It isn't brain surgery. I bet you two could educate yourselves in those areas if you put your minds to it.