Hello everyone, I’m designing a tiny home for myself on my family’s off grid property I have lived here for my whole life, just over 20 years! I’m hoping to get it built before winter but I’m not to sure I will be able to and I’m okay if I can’t. I have a platform on a foundation with the floor down and I’m designing the building right now.
I am going to try insulating the building with sawdust, maybe clay slip or just mix dry clay then add water I’m not sure yet and probably a bit of lime, I am very excited to try this technique of building! Any suggestions around that would be sweet but I have a pretty good idea how I’ll do it. The only thing I’d love to know is if it’s silly to insulate a roof with it, I have seen two videos of people insulating roof with hemp Crete.
My thought was to just invest in a small wood stove for the first years I live in it and maybe I replace it with a small rocket mass or batch box later but maybe not if there was a solid design and someone telling me to go for it.
I’m just not sure about a solid design I would be comfortable building, if there are any suggestions of that I’d love some help!
I like the concept of the cyclone batch box but I haven’t seen much update on it.
If I build a tiny match box or just j tube style I’d really love to incorporating a flat cooking top or oven of both if possible. My thoughts would be to put a steel or cast iron plate about where the top of the bell would be on the cyclone and either just put bricks on top when I’m not using it to cook or make some type of removable oven top that goes on top just not sure how that would be done.
