Mobile Laundry Room

Every time I place a structure somewhere, I wind up regretting my choice of location. Usually, it's because we expand a growing area and find that a building blocks the sun of an otherwise ideal garden bed. With this in mind, I decided to start making future structures mobile. This laundry room was built using 98% recycled or remnant materials. Most of it came from neighbours down the road who were gutting their basement in order to change the layout. Over the winter,  they would let me know whenever they had put stuff in their dumpster, and I would trek down there with my toboggan and tools to pick apart whatever pieces I wanted to pull home.

It took many hours to pull all the nails and screws out, but I calculated that I was earning between $20 and $30 worth of lumber and hardware (replacement cost) per hour. When spring came, I acquired from another neighbour an old utility trailer that was falling apart. I stripped it down to basics and then started building. It was time consuming because everything was of random lengths and shapes, so there was a lot of unconventional framing. The cedar board and batten siding was made from tongue and groove cedar from the neighbours' sauna. I installed the boards backwards to display the rough, unplaned side and used strips of cedar from the sauna benches to batten over the gaps.

My one regret is the butcher job I did on the chimney flashing. I should have bought new flashing appropriate for the slope, but I had a low-slope flashing piece on hand. I intentionally kept that out of the photos out of shame. It looks ridiculous.

I don't know how much everything weighs, but it has flatted out the springs, and the axle is resting up against a small timber that I mounted between axle and frame. There was never a plan to hit the road with it, only to move about on our property as it becomes unwelcome.  

That is neat!
What type of water heater have you installed please?

John C Daley wrote:That is neat!
What type of water heater have you inmstalled please?

Around here, they call it an Annex Heater. It's a narrow wood-fired cookstove with no oven. I'm going to use it to heat the water.

So that means washing day will start with a fire and an hour or so to heat the water for a start?

John C Daley wrote:So that means washing day will start with a fire and an hour or so to heat the water for a start?

Something like that. A simple solar water heater is in the works for the frost-free months.