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THE SUBFLOOR

It won’t be until much later that we decide what kind of floor we’ll have in the house—maybe something cool like epoxy or concrete—so for now, before we began framing, we needed only a subfloor.

As with everything else on this project, we searched online to see what others had done. Based on that research and given our particular climate, we decided on 19/32-inch OSB sheathing (like this) over 3/4-inch board insulation (like this), fastened down with deck screws.

When it came to the end, I screwed in a piece of angle-steel. I forget the exact dimensions, but whatever it was, it was about a half-inch short on the side that overhangs the subfloor materials. I laid on the acrylic caulk and didn’t lose any sleep over it. 

This end of the container—the end with the original doors—will be a storage area several feet deep, separated by an insulated wall from the bedroom.

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