With the expert guidance of Nathan Hourigan from NJH Flooring, a group of students from Rivers Secondary College in Lismore, Australia, rolled up their sleeves to build a tiny home. Over the past year, the students worked with local tradespeople to build a tiny home out of sustainable materials to encourage the students to enter the trades.
This included constructing and laying wood floors with Hourigan. The main room’s floors were made from salvaged materials from Langley Timbers, featuring a mix of spotted gum, blackbutt and red gum that were glued onto a structural base to create wooden floor tiles. The bathroom floors were made of Australian teak, which was sourced from the HMAS Hawk, a ship commissioned into the Australian Navy in 1962 as a coastal minesweeper and decommissioned in 1972. Additional pieces of Australian teak were also used between the tiles on the main floor. Everything was sanded and finished with a hemp-based wood floor oil. Once the tiny home was completed, it was auctioned off and sold for $65,000 AUD, which will be used to fund the next cohort of students in constructing another tiny home—and hopefully encourage even more youth to consider trades as a career.
SUPPLIERS: Edger: Festool Rotex | Finish: Pallmann | Sander (big machine): Pallmann Spider, American Sanders Super 7 | Wood flooring: Langley Timbers
