Grant's Tarleton
Grant McComb from Hillsboro, New Hampshire just finished building his own tiny house from Jay Shafer’s plans. He says, it turned out wonderful and I’ve been living in it for about 2 weeks now. I enjoyed building it so much that I’m going to
build another one.
The humanure toilet is working great. I’m using peat moss instead of sawdust and it seems to be working just fine. There is absolutely no odor at all. I chose peat moss because I can go to Home Depot and buy a big bag of it for $6.00. I don’t know where to get sawdust at.
I have a 10 gallon water heater for the sink and the shower that works beautiful. It acutally works better than the house I just moved out of. I have a garden hose coming from the land owner’s house for my water supply.
It took me less than 3 months to build the tiny house. I started in May of 2009. Feel free to call or email me if you have any questions or know anyone interested.
Thank you
Grant McComb
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I will need to be building & live in one of these for a few years to recoop after loosing my shirt on a Spec House I built pre “Crash”. I would like to contact Grant, since he used more off “the shelf materials”. Like I have one of those tiny Rinnai Heaters I forgot I had!
So I’ve been wanting one of these houses for months now. I’ve actually been looking at picking up a chunk of land in Hillsboro, the next town over from where I work, and living “off grid” in one of these things. I’m doing my research and I decided that I’d like to contact somebody who has built one in the state of NH. So coincidently there’s already one in Hillsboro. Grant, how do I contact you so that I can find out some more info on these fascinating little homes?
I’ll pass your comment on to Grant and he will get in touch with you.
James – You can call my cell phone at 810-280-6547 and I’ll try to answer some of your questions. Best regards, -Grant
Hello!
We are engineering students at Northwestern University and we are working on a Tiny House project. We call ourselves team Casita. We would greatly appreciate if you could take a moment to take this survey that would assist in our project.
Link if you are an owner of a tiny house: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TinyHouseOwnerSurvey
Link if you are interested in tiny houses:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TinyHouseInterested
Link if you are unfamiliar with tiny houses:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TinyHouseUnfamiliar
Also note that you DO NOT have to answer all of the questions.
Answer as many as you want.
Thanks so much!!!
You are helping us more than you could know.
Sincerely,
Casita
I am thinking of building one of these and would also like to contact Mr. McComb. seems the phone number is no longer his. does anyone know how to contact him?
thanks,
matthew
Hi
I would like to have one of these tiny homes. I am presently unemployed and homeless. I have no resource to buy material to build a house myself, plus I do not know how to build anything, but with the material I will try to build a home it beat the streets. Thank you for your time. Sal Du
my e-mail address is mouse30168@yahoo.com
I would suggest contacting Tumbleweed and see if they offer some assistance along these lines. I am not connected with them directly and can not give that advice.
This is a Very nice build. I’m excited to build myself but still not sure of the rest of “life” will be very accomodating.
Beautiful Work!
~Dan
These projects fascinate me. But none of the ones I have viewed online have any provisions for AC, only heat?