WHAZAMMO AND THE GILLIG #23 (Click the "MORE POSTS" link at the bottom to find Post #1)
1,600 Square Feet of high-rise Coach, no overpasses-low bridges please ! it is a 40 x 8 times five.
The concept is very simple, think of a brick and mortar built, or a modular built home... from Tiny house, double-wide, on up through mansions... none of these have holding tanks, most do not have generators, and they all rely on "supplied" utilities (electric, water, sewer, cable, satellite WIFI, cell services, garbage pickup, some sort of neighborhood security, paved streets, and of course neighbors).
A lot of RV manufacturers build tiny houses that are exactly like their bigger-house modular brothers, they are not aerodynamic for towing, too heavy for moving long-distance, and "need" these citified hookups. Think about the similarity... they tow a single-wide to your lot on axles, then remove them, and you sit atop jack stands, concrete block piers, or a full perimeter block foundation, you are then hooked up to all the "city services" and are now stationary.
Or, you drive your RV to the improved lot you purchased, remove the tires, axles, and engine, and you sit atop jack stands, concrete block piers, or a full perimeter foundation, you are then hooked up to all "city services" and are stationary.. the only real difference here, is appearance, you have wheel wells. (note that a lot of trailers/fifth wheels are "high-mount" (supposedly for off-road), but, there are "no" wheel wells (just like a modular/tiny home).
Once skirted, or embellished with the flower garden surround, it "may" even fit in as a Tiny House.
In my travels, I have seen, boats, airplanes, busses, hearses, trucks of all types, fire and water towers, grain bins, and other strange things "converted" into full-time dwellings (that was before state/county governments realized they could make lots of money by enforcing a retro-active 350 square foot minimum building codes (in 1974 a 35 foot x 8.5 ft travel trailer was the towable legal limit @ 297 sq. ft; a 40 x 8 bus was only 320 sq. ft.), these newly revised building codes outlawed them all (retroactively), so people built "up"to double their square footage.
Then, they decided to tax by"total" square footage, not by foundation-sized square footage, then, by 1990 most places then required septic permit approval "before" you could apply for a building permit.
By Y2K you now also needed an approved water source (can't flush w/o water), because you need electric saws, pumps, sanders, drills and staplers to build anything...your approved-inspected electric permit must also preceed a building permit "application" (which may or may not be approved by the city fathers after they vet your credentials), and in the recent past 10 years, "zoning" has become the final government control applied... remember... it is all in the name of "your" safety, so you need, geological, environmental, energy, noise, sewer, water, electrical and visual impact permits inspected and approved "before" you submit for your actual "CONSTRUCTION" permit. (there may be other considerations as well... political/sexual/religious/attitude leanings, appearance, and possibly financials, but all of that will be denied as being a dynamic... of course).
But, back to the GILLIG Park Coach, pretty much we are simply building a tiny home or park model manufactured home... but, we will dwell in RV and similar residential parks, not campgrounds, state parks, or road-side rests, and boondocking sites. We are a long-term-stay "Park" model RV-Coach, we certainly will not remove the axles, tires, and engine (just in case)... but, we have no interest or plans for roaming or traveling anymore (been there, done that), our only goal this year is to be sitting in a semi/or permanent RV park before the November elections hit !
After this build, we have no interest in ever building anything (after the GILLIG), I think this is what you call retirement ! builders fatigue, disgust with the "system", or just "old age', the secondary impact to the GILLIG project is the no under-storage issue... making the van a very important entity as a tool room, storage warehouse, and workspace, (which translates to one hell of a reduction in power tools, hardware inventory, and future fabrications being on the horizon). Time to enjoy.
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