Tiny Free House » free pallets http://www.tinyfreehouse.com Searching for the true value of a home... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:01:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Now that’s a lot of pallets! http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2009/03/20/now-thats-a-lot-of-pallets/ http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2009/03/20/now-thats-a-lot-of-pallets/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:24:00 +0000 Michael Janzen http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/?p=350 Thunderstorms and lack of long pallets for framing the roof will keep me from working on the tiny free house this weekend but I’ll definitely be out looking for the last few long pallets I need to complete the framing.

On another note, Julia just spotted this about 150 miles away from us. Too far for us to go on a three hour drive Freemont but if you live in the SF South Bay and want to build a whole town of tiny pallet houses you might just be in luck. Take a look at this craigslist post. Makes my mouth water.

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]]> http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2009/03/20/now-thats-a-lot-of-pallets/feed/ 1 2500 Free Pallets In Brooklyn http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2009/03/02/2500-free-pallets-in-brooklyn/ http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2009/03/02/2500-free-pallets-in-brooklyn/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:10:19 +0000 Michael Janzen http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/?p=304 Actually the craigslist ad says that they will pay you to take these 2500 pallets off their hands, so these pallets are more than free. Now Brooklyn is a bit of a drive from Sacramento, 2,823 miles to be exact. So I won’t be rushing out to get these 2500 pallets. But if you’re in the Brooklyn area, want free pallets, have a place to store them, and like getting paid, you might want to take a look at this craigslist ad. Thanks for the tip Vanessa!
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]]> http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2009/03/02/2500-free-pallets-in-brooklyn/feed/ 2 Good Free Stuff Haul Today http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2008/09/01/good-free-stuff-haul-today/ http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2008/09/01/good-free-stuff-haul-today/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:37:40 +0000 Michael Janzen http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2008/09/01/good-free-stuff-haul-today/ Julia kept a close eye on craigslist today and we got a mini fridge for the tiny free house kitchen and a resellable file cabinet. I think we’ll need to have a garage sale soon, it’s getting kind of cramped in there. Julia also spotted some pallets while we were driving along. She also spotted a big pile of pallets behind a fence in a commercial construction site. Tomorrow I’ll run over in the morning and see if they’ll let me have them. I didn’t get much pallet prep done this weekend but I did launch a new pallet house website. tinypallethouse.com

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After work I drove about 10 miles away to pick up some free windows. I’ll post a revised drawing tonight showing how the final windows will look on the house. Rich, the guy who had the windows, is replacing all his windows one at a time and had a pile of old double glazed aluminum windows growing in his yard. He posted them on craigslist this morning and minutes later had people contacting him saying they could come pick them up immediately. Lucky for me he liked the idea of giving them to people like me and not to the people who were clearly going to resell them. Thanks Rich!

Here are the pallets in the back of my truck out behind the car dealership. By the way… be sure to ask first before taking pallets. The fellow I called to get these said that you’re on camera the second you drive onto the lot and they don’t like people picking stuff up without permission. I guess they get a lot of theft.

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