Testing

Lift Test

The houses are meant to be modular and moveable. Most tiny homes are moved by crane which can be extremely expensive. We are able to lift our houses by forklift without a counterweight, eliminating the need for a crane and allowing simplified installation.

Crane Test

To test how the house will react in an earthquake, we performed a crane stress test. For this test we lifted the house with a crane and turned it 90 degrees, showing that the walls can withstand 1G of force. 1.75 kips of steel was added to the roof to increase the stress to 1.5G, and then we shook the house to simulate an earthquake. There was no damage to the inside or outside of the house after the test, which shows our walls durability and overall house safety.

Load Test

The allowable uniform load for the roof is 40 psf. To test if the roof can withstand that load with no deformation, we stacked sheet metal onto each side of the roof until it reached double the allowable load, which is equal to 12,000 pounds on each side of the roof, which is 1.5 times the weight of the house.