Is it difficult to build a motor home on the basis of a regular car trailer? What materials can this trailer-house-dacha be built from? What are its minimum dimensions? Which interior layout will allow you to use it most effectively inner space? Let's try to find answers to this list of questions.
Goals
Small country house- probably the most widespread hobby in the post-Soviet space over the past half century. The area of cities is growing every year, and areas are naturally moving away from the center settlements. Distances are sometimes measured in tens of kilometers; The most comfortable way to overcome them is to drive your own car.
At the same time, transform small area instead of permanent residence Not all summer residents are ready. The maximum that an average city family can decide to do is spend the night on their property once a week. Build for this overnight stay capital house- a dubious idea; sleeping in a car is very uncomfortable...
For summer residents who have basic skills in working with power tools, homemade summer cottage trailers are often the solution.
We have to study one of these structures, getting acquainted with the materials used and design solutions.
Acknowledgment: The photographs used in this article were kindly posted by one of the regulars of the League of Caravaners forum.
The author's work was reduced only to explaining some technical subtleties.
Selection of materials
In most cases, the base on which a compact trailer-dacha-motorhome is built is a single-axle trailer with maximum load no more than a ton. Taking into account the weight of household items and a couple of people, our choice is a caravan trailer weighing up to 750 kg.
The weight limitation leaves its mark on the choice of material.
- We will make the frame of the building from pine beams with a cross-section of 50 mm.
- The walls are made of 10 mm plywood (moisture-resistant or impregnated to reduce the hygroscopicity of the material and prevent it from rotting); the floor is made of 12 mm. It is also used for construction inside.
- External cladding is galvanized steel. The sheets are hemmed to the frame bar with self-tapping screws; overlaps are additionally sealed silicone sealant. The outer corners are reinforced with aluminum corners - again sealed with silicone.
- What to choose as insulation laid between the inner and outer layers of plywood - we will leave it to the reader to decide. Here is a comparative thermal conductivity of popular insulation materials:
A caveat: glass wool will inevitably cake over time.
It is better to use rigid insulation.
Dimensions
A reasonable minimum size of trailer required for our purposes is 2300x1600 mm. Such dimensions will allow you to build a fairly comfortable sleeping area for two people and leave some space for a table under a washbasin and/or gas stove.
A two-axle trailer-dacha will provide much more comfort; however, the price of such a trailer will be double or triple. Its dimensions (up to 4.5 meters in length) allow you to build a full-fledged toilet room.
A reasonable minimum height of a structure is generally 2 meters. The height can be adjusted depending on the size of the owners: it is clear that a person is very tall you don’t want to constantly touch the ceiling with the top of your head.
Construction
So let's get started. How to build a cottage from a trailer with your own hands?
Floor, bottom trim
- The sides are completely dismantled. All that remains of the trailer is a flat area. If the horizontal base is sufficiently rigid, floor joists and trim can be attached directly to it; It is better to weld a thin flexible sheet with a frame made of corrugated pipe with a cross-section of 50x25 mm.
- Then the lower frame made of timber, laid around the perimeter, is bolted to the base; the side bars are connected by lags in increments of 20 cm (for 12 mm plywood).
As an option, the entire structure can be assembled on a stand and only then pulled to the base of the trailer.
- The logs are attached to the frame with a galvanized angle; The block must be soaked twice with hot drying oil.
Tip: instead of drying oil heated in a water bath, you can use cold drying oil.
In this case, after applying each layer, the block is heated with a construction hairdryer.
- Insulation is laid between the joists; then the floor is covered with plywood, which is attached with self-tapping screws.
Frame
The instructions for assembling the frame are no different from the construction bottom trim: the block is connected with corners using self-tapping screws. Before or after assembly, the wood is impregnated with drying oil. Do not be afraid that the frame will not be rigid enough: the sheathing will give the structure strength.
Sheathing, insulation
The finished frame begins to be sheathed from the inside. The plywood is attached with self-tapping screws 32 millimeters long in increments of approximately 25 cm. Self-tapping screws are only galvanized: in damp weather, black steel will inevitably decorate the walls with untidy rusty streaks.
Three nuances:
- The holes for the screws are pre-drilled and countersunk so that the caps do not catch on clothing. An alternative is to use self-tapping screws with semi-countersunk heads.
- Plywood with inside It must be sanded before varnishing and after applying the first layer. Any moisture will increase top layer veneer pile, which will make the surface rough.
The amount of work will be quite large, so it is better to use a grinder - even the simplest, vibrating one. If there is no electricity where you are building, there is always a way out: renting a diesel generator for a summer house costs from 1,000 rubles per day. - The outer side and ends of the plywood also need protective impregnation. And in this case, the cheapest and most practical option is two layers of hot drying oil.
The insulation is fixed in the grooves formed by the frame and internal lining, after which it is sheathed on the outside with plywood coated on both sides.
The door is assembled similarly to the walls and hung on galvanized hinges; regular constipation is used door lock or a pair of latches - inside and outside.
Final stage - exterior decoration galvanized. It is fixed with self-tapping screws 25 mm long in 10 cm increments along all frame bars; then the corners are closed with a corner. Don't forget about the sealant: it will protect the corners and joints from water leakage.
The photo shows the trim ready for painting.
Window
If you want your tiny home to have skylights, no problem.
- The opening is provided at the stage of frame construction. It is surrounded by a bar with a cross-section of the same 50x50 mm.
- An alloy corner is used as an external glazing bead, screwed flush with the outer cladding with self-tapping screws. Seat under the corner is pre-coated with sealant.
- A piece of plexiglass cut to the size of the opening is placed on the sealant and fixed from the inside with a bead made from the same duralumin corner.
Internal layout
Our choice is a convertible bed-seat and folding table. The transformation mechanism will be made clear by pictures.
Useful little things
- An alternative to galvanized plywood - external cladding from corrugated sheet. According to a similar scheme, they are often built country houses from block containers.
- Do-it-yourself repair of a summer house trailer usually comes down to periodic painting of galvanized steel. Old paint removed with washes. In those few cases when the wheels, fenders or suspension of the trailer are damaged, spare parts for the trailer camper are purchased at the nearest auto store.
- The simplest way to organize ventilation is to provide a pair of closed doors in mosquito net hatches (bottom and top).
Conclusion
Many lovers of free holidays dream of traveling in a motor home, so as not to be dependent on purchasing tickets, booking hotels and being tied to one point during the entire holiday. A mobile home is both a home and a means of transportation. It allows you to travel with maximum comfort and stop wherever you want along the way. In addition, it can be used as housing in the country or while building a house.
Today you can buy a mobile home in finished form, although it is quite an expensive pleasure. But it’s much more interesting and cheaper to make it yourself from an old vehicle, refurbishing its interior or making such a motorhome practically from scratch, not counting the base. For this, in addition to the “wheels” themselves, you will need not only funds for re-equipment and a variety of tools, but also certain skills similar works, as well as a lot of energy and free time.
Attention! Before investing in the conversion of a vehicle, you need to find out all the nuances of its registration with the relevant authorities in order to avoid any problems during registration. Otherwise, it is unlikely that you will be able to use such a vehicle for travel, and it will end up as a dead weight somewhere in the country.
A decent sized mobile home can be made from a large van, but a mobile home like this is a prohibitively expensive vehicle. Among budget options, quite suitable for those who like to make anything with their own hands, there are three most convenient ones. So, a mobile home can be made from:
- Gazelles;
- old bus;
- trailer with a strong chassis.
House made from a Gazelle car To implement any of these three options, in addition to having the vehicle itself, which will be taken as a basis, you will need a plan for the future motorhome, at least in schematic form. Such a plan will allow you to take into account all the design features and plan a living area with maximum comfort for living there. You can simply draw it on paper or do it on a computer, if that’s more convenient.
Internal communications of a mobile home
Without electricity, water supply and gas, it is difficult to call life in a mobile home comfortable. To provide electricity to a room, they are usually used accumulator battery And Charger. The electrical wiring inside must be thought out in advance. Don’t forget about the external connector to charge the battery, which come in different capacities. The most suitable battery capacity also needs to be calculated in advance, taking into account the load and travel distance.
Interior arrangement of a mobile home Often used for heating rooms gas cylinders. Gas will also be convenient for cooking, which is much more economical in terms of consumption than an electric stove. The presence of a kitchen in such a house means installing a hood above the stove and organizing common system ventilation, which is especially important when using propane.
Advice. You should not undertake independent gasification and electrical supply of the premises in the absence of the necessary knowledge and experience; it is better to entrust such work to professionals. The safety of people in the motorhome directly depends on how competently they are carried out.
The kitchen cannot function without water, which is usually stored in containers where submersible pump to feed it into the tap. To drain used water, a tank is also used, which is mounted either indoors or outdoors. If desired, the mobile home can be equipped with a small shower. But it is not possible to create a conventional bathroom in a mobile home; a dry closet is used for this purpose.
Kitchen area in a motorhome As for furniture, it is better if all of it in a motor home is practical and compact, because there is not too much space to place it. Options for reclining beds, sliding tables and similar organization of space can be used. And all this must be securely fastened to the walls to ensure safety when moving. Furniture for furnishing can be purchased ready-made, but for a person with hands it is not difficult to make it yourself, taking into account the size of the room, and make a sofa and chairs, for example, from car seats.
It is quite possible to arrange the interior space in a mobile home, and you can do it all yourself. But before that you need to prepare the room. Depending on which option is taken - a minibus or a trailer, there will be differences in the stages of work required for the conversion.
Mobile home from a Gazelle or an old bus
Re-equipment of a minibus begins with cleaning the body from upholstery and seats, after which various holes– under windows, ventilation, for gas supply.
Mobile house from a bus Then the work on arranging the residential area is carried out in the following sequence:
- level out any dents on the inner surface, then prime all exposed metal parts of the body to prevent corrosion;
- the internal surface of the future house, including walls, floor and ceiling, is covered with thermal insulation;
- Moisture-resistant plywood or carpeting is laid on top of the heat-insulating material, starting from the ceiling.
Upon completion of these works, electrification and gasification of the premises, equipment of the kitchen and bathroom, and installation of furniture are carried out. For reliable installation of furniture, plywood of a larger thickness is attached to the walls than on the floor or ceiling, or separate reinforced strips are installed to fix it. And, of course, if necessary, you need to put in order the chassis and engine of a Gazelle or an old bus, then such a house will become truly mobile.
Mobile home based on trailer
Here, unlike a house made from a minibus, the work is somewhat different. First you need to protect the chassis from corrosion by cleaning and painting them. Then you will have to build the floor, walls, ceiling and roof, proceeding in the following sequence:
- place plywood of sufficient thickness on the frame, surround the outer edge with timber and secure with bolts;
Flooring for a house based on a trailer - lay the beams on the floor, securing them between them thermal insulation material and cover it all with plywood on top;
- for the construction of walls, timber and lining are used, not forgetting to make openings for windows and doors during the work, as well as technological holes for entry and exit of various communications;
- to build a roof, install rafters, cover them with plywood, covering them with moisture-resistant material;
Construction of walls - after laying electrical wiring make thermal insulation of the walls, then covering the top with fiberboard;
- for guard wooden walls prime them inside and out, then paint them in two layers;
- install a door and windows; additional interior finishing may be required.
Upon completion of these works, you can think about gasification, water supply, organizing the kitchen and bathroom, and installing furniture. Then all that remains is to install the fenders and lights that come with the trailer, and the mobile home is ready to travel.
Don't forget to get your permits before you hit the road in your RV. Of course, traveling in a motor home is very convenient. However, before you start construction, decide for yourself whether you can handle all the work yourself, because it will require quite a lot of effort, money and skills.
DIY mobile home: video
At the moment, there are several classifications of mobile homes. Based on the main design features, the following categories can be distinguished:
- trailed;
- camper van;
- a caravan house connected to transport.
Mobile modern houses can be divided into types not only according to certain design features, but also according to purpose. This category includes mobile homes that are used as permanent or long-term housing, as well as those that are intended exclusively for travel.
More detailed information about what it is, you can find in a very useful and interesting article our specialist.
There is another form of classification of modern motorhomes. They can be divided into three main categories:
- C – small-sized, used for short trips;
- C B – semi-integrated car houses;
- B A – fully integrated.
The first ones are made on the basis of a regular SUV; the sleeping places here need to be transformed in a special way. Class B motorhomes are distinguished by a permanently located sleeping area, which is located in the rear of the vehicle. Class A motorhomes external characteristics similar to regular buses. They are quite comfortable and, therefore, very expensive in cost if purchased ready-made.
To save money, you can build a mobile home with your own hands, using photos and special instructions as a guide. If you correctly carry out the main stages of manufacturing a mobile home, you can get a vehicle that will be large in size. Windshield, a fixed driver's seat, as well as special retractable partitions that form zones of different functionality and separately located sleeping places.
Below you will find information on how to make a mobile home with your own hands, which can be considered autonomous. The structures can be equipped with generators, have gas supplied and a sufficiently large supply of water.
Stages of building a motorhome with your own hands
If you want to build a motorhome with your own hands, you should carefully follow the instructions provided. Below we describe how to build a motorhome body depending on the base, how to properly equip it and equip it with all the necessary components for living and traveling.
Creating a plan
Homemade mobile homes are quite serious structures. The process of their construction, here, as in any important event, must begin with detailed plan. It is at this stage of work that the master must think through the most basic aspects of the matter, all possible little details and draw up the most accurate drawing.
When making a motorhome from a trailer with your own hands, you need to strictly adhere to all the points and rules indicated in the plan and drawings.
The total internal space of a building on wheels should be divided into three main zones:
- A dining room where you can eat, work on a laptop or read a newspaper at the table. Here you can place small sofa, chairs and table. These items should fold easily enough to take up a minimum amount of free space.
- Sleeping area. This is one of the important areas, since adequate sleep ensures activity and good mood. For a driver, night rest is very important, since his concentration and attentiveness depend on it, which directly affects the safety of movement during the daytime. It is advisable to equip this area with a comfortable bed, which should easily rise and free up space.
- Bathroom with toilet. To equip such an area, you need to install a sink, a shower stall and a modern dry closet.
- Kitchen. This zone takes up a minimum amount of space, since most of its elements are built-in. To ensure maximum comfort, you need to install two burners, a small sink, a countertop, a small refrigerator and an extractor hood.
For the reason that standard room a motorhome is quite limited; its zones need to be integrated into one another. It is for this reason that a preliminary plan is so important and must be followed carefully.
In the process of drawing up a plan, you need to carefully consider what interior items are really required and what you can refuse.
After that, everything you want, indicating exact dimensions transferred to a sheet of paper. Next, the plan is drawn up according to the following principle:
- The estimated area of the motorhome is divided into pre-divided zones. For example, a bedroom needs more space than a kitchen;
- the location of the bathroom and options for separating it from other rooms are noted;
- All furniture elements are drawn, as well as methods of their fastening and folding options.
In the process of drawing and designating these areas of the room, it is necessary to take into account the dimensions of each element.
Don't forget about free space too. The mobile home should not be littered with things and pieces of furniture.
After drawing up a detailed and well-thought-out plan, after clarifying the dimensions common area and pieces of furniture, you can begin to build such a structure as a mobile home from a trailer with your own hands.
Selecting a base
Among the most affordable budget options that are optimal for everyone who likes to make something with their own hands, we can highlight three of the most convenient designs. You can make a residential trailer with your own hands on the basis of a gazelle, a trailer with a reinforced chassis and an old minibus. Let's look at two of them in more detail.
Minibus
To make a motorhome with your own hands from a minibus, you should begin by thoroughly cleaning the body and removing the upholstery. After this, you need to make special holes for ventilation, under the windows and for gas supply. After general data preparatory work You can begin special processes related to the arrangement of the residential area. Work of this kind must be performed in the following sequence:
- Leveling existing dents on the inner surface and priming all metal parts basics. This will prevent the occurrence of destructive corrosion.
- The internal surface - walls, ceiling and floor - are covered with heat-insulating material.
- A moisture-resistant coating is laid on top.
- Gas and electricity are provided.
- Bathroom equipment is being manufactured.
- The kitchen is being equipped and furniture is being installed.
It is equally important to get your travel van's engine and chassis in order. Due to the fact that this is a mobile vehicle, its ability to move should be given no less close attention than its arrangement and comfort.
Trailer
Making a camper from a trailer with your own hands is much more difficult than making a camper from a minibus. The main difficulty is that the walls and ceiling need to be built from scratch. Approximate scheme of action in in this case will be the following:
- Cleaning the chassis and trailer.
- Mounting on the base of the frame of the future motorhome.
- Covering the frame with a layer of plywood.
- Floor installation with simultaneous use of thermal insulation.
- The structure is sheathed with external material and coated with special moisture-resistant compounds.
- Roof arrangement.
- Construction of a drain, installation of wires to provide the house with electricity.
- Installation of door and window openings.
All this general scheme making a home on wheels. Below each stage will be discussed in more detail.
Exterior finishing works
Once the main body mobile home ready, you can begin basic exterior work. It is very important to ensure that the campsite is kept as clean as possible. There should be no dust, dirt or significant defects. This is what guarantees the successful formation of the structure. The main points of external work include:
- Removal of corrosion and various types of damage.
- Making holes.
Talking about required holes, it can be noted that this is not only window openings, but also those designed for gas outlet, ventilation, water fillers.
Openings must be made during the process of arranging the camper. Otherwise, you may encounter certain difficulties.
The external arrangement of such a structure as a do-it-yourself mobile home from a minibus or trailer consists of performing the following work:
- Creating partitions between the main body and the front seats.
- Arrangement of internal insulation. Here you need to remember that the quality and proper installation of this material The overall temperature and sound insulation inside the room will directly depend.
- Covering the structure from the roof to the floor covering.
On modern market presents a huge number of the most different materials. The choice can be made based on personal preferences, characteristics environment, general financial situation, as well as the type of body used.
Home equipment
The equipment of a motorhome consists largely of its interior design. To make the house convenient and comfortable, you will need to install water, electricity, gas into the house, and also install certain furniture.
Water supply and bathroom
A prerequisite for water supply to a structure on wheels is to ensure the supply of running water. To carry out this process, you need to install a couple of canisters and a compact pump under the sink, which will provide the necessary flow of water to the tap.
Thinking through the withdrawal Wastewater– this is the basic rule when arranging a full-fledged toilet. Their withdrawal can be carried out using a special located in floor surface hose With a little engineering knowledge, you won't have to manually drain water into special portable tanks. Although many people do this too.
As for the bathroom, then the best option purchase and installation of a dry closet is considered.
Electricity
One or more special batteries may be entirely responsible for the accumulation and storage of electricity in a wheeled house. These devices can be charged while the tractor is operating or when connected to external sources. When equipping a motorhome electrical networks Modern inverters occupy a special place. These are special devices that can turn D.C. with a voltage of 12 V AC, equal to 230 V. Due to this, devices operating from a 230-volt standard can be connected to a 12-volt network without any problems.
Heating and gas
Gasification of the described design consists of simply installing a gas cylinder in the room. To do this, you need to select a separate closed area. In its lower part you need to arrange special holes that go out.
Experienced travelers know that it is not always possible to spend the night cheaply and comfortably. Therefore, when traveling long distances and having own car It’s a sin not to buy a towbar and hook up a caravan trailer. Essentially, this is a house on wheels - a kind of small room with a kitchen, a toilet... Well, in general, with all the objects of civilization. In such a “mini-hotel” you can not only spend the night comfortably, but even cook food for several people and have lunch there, and most importantly - completely free! And today we will look at how to make a trailer-dacha with your own hands.
Chassis and frame
The main component of any trailer is the frame. It is on this that the entire load from the metal body (the frame of the “house”) falls, and below is the bridge, beam and wheels. By the way, you won’t have any special difficulties, because the design of the trailer does not have fundamental differences from the vehicle system, with the exception of engine units. Therefore, when it is made as a chassis system, you can completely “rip out” part of the wheels, springs and other suspension parts from any old car. Any car model can be suitable for such a vehicle, be it a Volga, Moskvich or Zhiguli.
How to make a trailer-dacha with your own hands? Room design
And if the algorithm for designing a caravan trailer is practically no different from a conventional cargo version at the stages of building the chassis system and frame, then difficulties may arise with the body. The fact is that a home-made trailer-dacha should really be comfortable and practical, so even on the drawing you need to develop a plan for the design and location of all the parts. Indicate where the bedroom, kitchen will be located, and if it is a frame with a length of 5 meters or more, you can additionally install a bathroom. However, remember that every new room entails additional expenses, which means the price of the finished trailer will be significant. Moreover, in order to legally drive in such a hitch, you also need to register this vehicle with the traffic police. And this is at least several thousand dollars on top. Therefore, do not overload your trailer with unnecessary devices.
Refurbishment option
The most practical option is a design that has a built-in frame for an awning on the side (remember the legendary Soviet “Skif”). When unfolded, it forms a kind of large tent. This significantly reduces the cost of work and the effort spent on it. This home-made trailer is very functional and at the same time easy to use.
Towbar and illumination
At the final stage, it is worth taking care of how finished design will be attached to the vehicle's tow bar. Also, a homemade trailer-dacha must have a pair of brake lights and turn signals. Consider a location for the license plate in the center or on the side and install a backlight to it, preferably LED. Such a camper trailer on wheels will definitely be the best hotel for a traveler.
Homemade dacha trailer made from a car trailer: photo of building a camper with detailed description, also a video showing a mobile home.
We decided to build a small residential house on wheels so that we could travel to nature in our car. Since we didn’t have drawings of the camper, we decided to make a removable module for the factory trailer (so that there would be no problems with re-registration of the vehicle).
This is why it was purchased boat trailer Kurgan plant(only in their title they don’t specify what kind of trailer it is. It’s just a trailer; other manufacturers indicate that it’s a boat trailer and you can’t put a house on it).
The dimensions of the module corresponded to the dimensions of the trailer - 1400 x 2400 mm. Naturally, the removable module must be durable, and a plywood house definitely won’t work for our roads; we had to weld a steel frame.
The base is welded from a 60 x 30 mm profile, the walls and ceiling are made from a 20 x 20 mm profile. 2 identical arcs were bent on a pipe bender.
The most difficult thing was to think through the doors; it took us 1/3 of the total time spent on the doors. Anyone interested in this topic has seen factory doors, ventilation hatches, gas stoves, sinks, heaters, etc. and so on. There is only one problem: cost. one factory door costs about 700-800 bucks (and you need 2 of them), a sunroof with an exhaust hood costs about 300-400 bucks, I didn’t even look at the sinks and stoves, and so it became clear that we would choose from what we found in hardware stores .
As a result, we made the doors ourselves, because with our course the budget for the doors alone came out to more than 100 thousand (on Alika, Ebay, in Europe, America, Russian online stores - the prices are approximately the same).
We decided to make the doors with power windows, because... This is the easiest way in our opinion. There is no point in describing the whole process, I will only say that making the doors was very tedious. but at cost they came out to 5 rubles per door, taking into account everything. the savings were worth it)
The outside of the building was sheathed aluminum sheets 0.8 mm, specifically looked for large sheets so that you can cover it with one sheet without joints. As a result, we found AMC2 sheets measuring 1500 x 3000 mm, which suited us quite well.
Now I would choose a composite material for cladding buildings, 4 mm thick (for those who don’t know, these are 2 sheets of 0.4 mm aluminum, and between them a special composite that ideally withstands all weather conditions).
We stuck aluminum onto a plywood backing, riveted it around the perimeter and sealed all the joints. It was possible to leave the trailer aluminum, but initially we wanted blue on the outside, so we ordered vinyl film for covering the vehicle from a printing house and covered it on top.
Many people ask about the refrigerator. There is no refrigerator, and there cannot be one, because... The module is removable and has its own car battery. The module wiring is completely autonomous and is not connected to the wiring of the car or trailer in any way. Therefore, there is no way to connect a refrigerator here. Although I don’t understand the problem if it can be placed in the trunk of a car.
We also made 2 220V sockets in the living area, a 400W inverter, enough for both chargers and a TV. LED lighting everywhere.
Water is supplied from a canister by a fountain pump, not very powerful, but economical.
We made a niche for the countertop under the kitchen, it seemed very convenient, but in fact the ribs on top and bottom were from a 15 x 15 profile, very flexible and not reliable profile. As a result, the niche bent a little and the chipboard table did not fit there, so we had to make it out of plywood.
After assembly, the trailer was tested by Karcher at all joints, cracks, etc. 100% tightness.
Costs for building a caravan trailer.
We started building the camper in May 2015, and finished it in June 2016. My friend and I work in shifts, i.e. per week 2-3-4 days could be devoted to the trailer. We were very stuck with the kitchen decoration and doors. If you expect to collect it in 3 months, add triple the deadline.
In terms of finances: everything was bought new, nothing used was used. The trailer itself cost 44 thousand, and about 110 thousand was spent on materials. Everything was fixed, right down to the gloves, so the price is close to the real one. You can do it cheaper, but you should know in advance.
By weight: the trailer + module weighs about 600 kg, the module itself is about 460-480 kg. Increased severity a large number of Chipboard, who will do it - look for more lightweight material for partitions.
The 1.4 Octavia passenger car pulls the trailer with a bang. On the highway I accelerated to 130 km/h, the trailer is not felt at all, the streamlined shape practically does not slow down. consumption increases by 1-2 liters. By bad road It’s difficult to drive more than 90, after all, the weight is not small, the car jerks. But 80-90 is quite acceptable for such a trailer. I drove through fields, along dirt roads, and the trailer never hit anywhere.
Video that explains in detail makeshift house on wheels.