Questions people actually ask us

This is the question we get more than any other, and the honest answer is that it depends on your country, your municipality and usually your exact plot. But the shape of the problem is the same everywhere, and once you know it you'll save yourself a lot of wasted effort.

Four questions decide it, and it's worth asking them in this order.

1. Does your plot allow a dwelling at all? That's the local land-use plan: detaljplan, Bebauungsplan, PLU, omgevingsplan, PGOU, PDM. It has nothing to do with our tiny houses, and it's the question that stops most projects. Answer it before you choose a model, and definitely before you buy land.

2. Is a tiny house on a trailer a vehicle or a building? Almost nowhere does this turn on whether it has wheels. It turns on permanence, and on whether it's connected to mains services. Portugal's national guidance says so in as many words. Italy, Spain and Flanders have all decided that a mobile home lived in as a dwelling is a building. The practical rule: stay road-legal, stay unconnected and stay temporary, and you're usually a vehicle. Level it on supports, plumb it in and live in it, and you're a building.

3. If it's a building, which energy standard applies, and is there a way round it? Most countries exempt small or temporary buildings, usually at 50 m² or at a fixed number of years. Whether your model meets the standard without an exemption depends on the class, so have a look at the insulation question.

4. What's the transport permit threshold? 2.55 m wide and 4.0 m high is the EU-wide norm. Above that you need an exceptional-transport permit.

You ask your municipality about 1 and 2. Ask us about 3 and 4, and we'll send you drawings, weights, U-values and the technical file to take to your application.

And the single most useful thing you can do is ring the building office before you order anything. Customers who do that almost never get stuck later, and we're very happy to help you prepare for that call.

Three different answers, so do check which one applies to you.

A ready-built tiny house from the in-stock list: two to four weeks. That's delivery time. The house already exists, so you're waiting for transport rather than for a build.

A Nature Pod: about six to eight weeks.

Any other tiny house, built to your configuration: about three months from signing. That's the current figure and it moves with the order queue, so ask us for today's number when you're ready to order.

We'd much rather give you a real figure than an optimistic one, so if the queue lengthens we'll tell you.

Here are our base prices, ex VAT, taken from our own system on 14 September 2026.

The base price gets you the shell and the structure, plus what the trade calls first fix: the wiring and pipework inside the walls, before anything is connected up or fitted out. A finished, furnished tiny house lands well above it once you've added heating, kitchen, bathroom and furniture. As a rough guide, a fully equipped small model usually comes to somewhere around 40,000 to 55,000 EUR, and the larger permit-capable models from about 74,000 EUR up.

VAT is charged at the rate of the country we deliver to, not the Swedish rate, and delivery is quoted separately for your address. For a figure that reflects what you'd actually order, use the price calculator.

We build nineteen models, in three classes. The class matters more than the size, because it's what decides whether you can tow it and whether it can be approved as a permanent home.

Mobile. Built on a road trailer, and you can tow it at up to 80 km/h as long as the loaded weight stays under 3.5 tonnes. Small: Nature Pod, Sofia, Moon. Medium: Felicia, Luna Office, Luna Home, Maya, Sunshine. Large: Venus, Porto, Elise.

Semi-mobile. A steel frame with wheels, but the wheels are only for small movements on your own site. These are never towed on the road; they come to you on a truck. XL: Smile, Julia. XXL: River, Sky.

Non-mobile and modular. A steel frame that needs a prepared foundation: Lucia, Zenith, Evergreen, Evergreen XL.

Three more are nearly here. Leah, Helena and Antonia are modular tiny houses, and they go up on the website within the next week or two, so by the end of September 2026. They are not in the table above because the table is what you can order today. If you are planning for next season, ask us and we will send you what we have: drawings, sizes and an indication of price. This note was written on 14 September 2026, so if you are reading it later, look for them on the website first.

One thing that's worth getting right before you talk to a building office, because it trips people up. Living area is the floor you can actually use, lofts and mezzanines included. Footprint is the outside length and width. When a local rule says "30 m²", it almost always means the footprint.

Not sure which number your municipality is asking for? Send us what they wrote and we'll tell you.

Five years from delivery, on the tiny house, whichever model you choose. Most tiny house builders give one or two years, so five is at the long end of the market.

And in nearly every case we come to you. We would rather drive to your plot and put a thing right ourselves than send you to a stranger. We only bring in a local firm where that is genuinely the more practical answer, a specialist part or a very long distance, and we arrange that for you either way.

One practical thing worth knowing now: report a defect within 14 days of noticing it. A short email with a photograph is enough, and it protects the claim while we work out what is wrong.

The full conditions, and the list of what is not covered, are under Once it is yours.

Usually, yes. We keep a number of tiny houses fully equipped and ready to move into, and those are two to four weeks from order to your site. That's transport time, not build time, because the house already exists.

Changes are still possible on a ready-built tiny house, though preferably not structural ones. Furniture can come out or go in and the fit-out can usually be adjusted. What we cannot do once it is built is turn it into a full off-grid tiny house or move the layout around, because both of those live inside the structure. Ask us what can still be added. If you want a particular configuration, that means building from scratch, which takes about three months.

The list changes often: see what is ready to deliver. Ask us to hold one while you sort out finance or ground preparation.

Yes, and we really recommend it. Viewings across Scandinavia and Germany: book a viewing. Send us your postcode and we'll tell you which is nearest.

Most of those viewings are at our own customers' tiny houses rather than at a showroom, which is the point of them. You get to ask somebody who paid for theirs what they would do differently, and you see a house that has been lived in rather than staged.

A few owners also rent theirs out, so it is sometimes possible to stay a night in one. Ask us and we'll see what exists in your area.

Yes. The catalogue covers every model with photographs, dimensions and specifications, and you can download it straight from the website. There's a separate price list too, showing base prices and the price of every option, ex VAT.

For a real price rather than a base price, use the price calculator. You build the tiny house the way you want it and see what it comes to, with everything you've chosen included.

Yes, of course. We're on +46 (0)18 25 88 99 on weekdays, and we do WhatsApp and video calls too, which is often easier if you want to go through a configuration together.

Tell us roughly when suits you and in which language, and we'll find a time. We answer in Swedish, German and English.

It depends on the model and the country, and the model matters more than most people expect.

Our mobile models under 3.5 tonnes are built light: 8 cm of insulation in the walls and 10 cm in the roof, which gives roughly U 0.44 for the wall and U 0.42 for the roof. That's the price of being towable, and it's well short of what most countries ask for year-round housing. Norway's TEK17, for example, wants 0.22 for a wall. They make excellent holiday and secondary homes, but we'd rather tell you that now than after you've ordered.

For a permanent home, look at River, Sky, Zenith, Lucia, Evergreen or Evergreen XL. These are a different build: 3-pane windows where the mobile models have 2-pane, and a great deal more insulation. Take our River as the worked example. It has been calculated for Germany at wall U 0.150, roof U 0.150, floor U 0.170 and windows Uw 0.870, and it passed comfortably.

They aren't certified to any particular efficiency scheme like KfW 55. There's a certification jungle across Europe with at least one scheme per country, so tell us which one you have to satisfy and we'll tell you honestly whether we can meet it.

Only the mobile models, and only if the loaded weight stays under 3.5 tonnes. That limit is what lets you tow at up to 80 km/h on a BE licence in most of Europe, and it applies to the whole trailer weight, even if you only ever want to move the house once.

Do watch the weight, because it adds up faster than people expect. A Maya or Sunshine with normal equipment is already around 3.1 to 3.2 tonnes. Add solar, a water tank and an appliance shed and you're over. A fully fitted Sofia with solar and tank lands right on 3.5 tonnes, and that's before your own belongings and kitchen things go in. If staying under the limit matters to you, tell us at the configuration stage and we'll build the specification around it.

Our semi-mobile models do have wheels, but they're for small movements on your own site and the houses aren't for public roads. The weights say why: Julia about 5 tonnes, River about 8, Sky about 10, Lucia about 12, Evergreen about 14, Evergreen XL about 18.

Separately from weight there's width and height. 2.55 m wide and 4.0 m high is the normal legal maximum across the EU. Most of our mobile models are 2.50 or 2.55 m wide and 4.00 m high, so they sit right at the ceiling, which means a slightly raised trailer deck or a roof vent can push you over it. Smile, Julia and Sky are 3.00 m and 3.45 m wide and always need an exceptional-transport permit, which is why they travel on a low-loader with us rather than behind your car.

You get the trailer's vehicle papers and its CoC document. Together with the purchase contract, which is your proof of ownership, that's what you take to the vehicle authority in your country.

We can't send you these before you order, unfortunately. They belong to one specific trailer with its own identification number, and we buy trailers per order rather than keeping stock.

Tiny houses leave us on Polish or Latvian plates, depending on which workshop built yours, since that is where they are built. In Sweden you re-register them yourself by notifying customs and Transportstyrelsen, or we can handle it for you for an extra fee, which includes booking the inspection at the border. In Germany the tiny house goes to TÜV, and how it gets classified there, caravan or special-purpose trailer or special vehicle, varies from one test centre to the next. If you tell us which centre you're planning to use, we'll send you everything we have.

The shell, the structure and what the trade calls first fix: everything that goes inside the walls before they are closed up.

On the electrical side that's LED lighting, all the wiring in flex tubes, a switchboard with a residual-current device, sockets and switches in place, and a 230 V connection as standard. 400 V three-phase is available, and we do country-specific variants where they're needed, Norway for example.

On plumbing it's a water inlet adapter from 22 mm PEM to 15 mm, all the pipework inside the walls, and a drain from the sinks and shower.

Winter insulation, ventilation and adjustable support legs are included too.

What isn't included: heating, kitchen appliances, bathroom fittings, furniture, off-grid equipment, terraces and delivery. Connection services aren't either. Actually getting gas, water and electricity connected to the house is never part of the house price.

One thing to check by class, because it matters for permits. The mobile models have 2-pane windows in tempered glass. A third pane costs weight, and on a mobile model every kilo counts against the 3.5-tonne limit. River, Sky, Zenith, Lucia, Evergreen and Evergreen XL have 3-pane windows. If an energy calculation for your permit depends on the window U-value, that's the first thing to look at.

Open the price calculator, pick a model and work through the options: cladding and colours, insulation, heating, kitchen, bathroom, appliances, furniture, off-grid equipment, terrace. The price moves as you go, so you can see what each choice costs. There is one per model and it is free, and the site calls them configurators if you are looking for them in the menu.

Send us the result and we'll go through it together. We almost always have comments, because some combinations affect the weight, some affect the warranty, and some options make much more sense together than apart. That conversation is free and it's usually the most useful twenty minutes of the whole process.

You do not pay it all at once. It comes in stages, and the stages depend on whether the tiny house already exists.

A ready-built tiny house: 50% when you sign the contract, and the other 50% about a week before delivery.

One built from scratch: 30% on signing, 50% part-way through the build, and 20% about a week before delivery.

If a different arrangement suits you better, just ask. Some buyers prefer to pay in one go, and that is no problem at all.

Our price list is ex VAT, and the price calculator shows you both figures.

Inside the EU, a private buyer pays VAT at the rate of the country we deliver to, not the Swedish rate. So a tiny house going to Germany carries 19%, to Portugal 23%, to the Netherlands 21%. You'll find the rate for your country in the country pages under "Rules where you are".

If you're buying through a company with a valid EU VAT number, you can buy without VAT and account for it yourself.

If we deliver outside the EU, to Norway, Switzerland or the UK, we sell without EU VAT and you pay import VAT and any duty when it arrives.

One thing that changes the answer, and it's worth telling us early. If we only deliver the house, it's a distance sale and we handle the destination VAT through the EU One Stop Shop. If we also install it on your site, the place of supply becomes your country under Art. 36 of the EU VAT Directive, which falls outside the One Stop Shop. It affects how we have to write the contract, so let us know which you want.

It depends on the model and the distance, so we quote it for your address. Send us your postcode and we'll find out for you.

To give you a sense of scale, a delivery to Germany in 2026 was around 4,200 EUR for a mobile model, around 9,300 EUR for Smile, Julia or River and around 10,500 EUR for Sky or Zenith. A Nature Pod to Portugal on a tent truck was around 1,600 EUR. Deliveries outside the EU include the customs handling.

Those are examples from real quotes, not a price list, so please don't hold us to them.

One thing that drives the cost: if the tiny house is over 2.55 m wide or 4.0 m high it needs an exceptional-transport permit in every country it passes through. That's why the wide models cost more to move.

It's harder than for a conventional house, and we'd rather say that plainly. Most banks won't write a mortgage on a building that isn't permanently fixed to land, so most of our customers pay from savings.

We're rebuilding our financing offer right now and looking for partners in every major market, so please ask us rather than relying on anything you read here or elsewhere on the site. The picture is genuinely changing at the moment, and we'd rather give you the current answer than an old one.

One thing worth trying with your own bank in the meantime: if the house sits on a registered trailer, ask specifically about a leisure-vehicle or caravan loan. That sometimes works where a mortgage doesn't.

Yes, and what you need depends on how the tiny house is set up rather than on which country you're in.

While it sits on a registered trailer it's legally a vehicle with a load in most of Europe, so caravan or trailer insurance is usually the right fit, and it covers both damage in transport and the contents. Once the house is jacked off the trailer, the trailer taken away and the wheels and towbar removed, it starts to look like a building to an insurer, and villa or holiday-home cover becomes possible instead.

We're reviewing our insurance information at the moment, so please ask us before you commit, and get whatever you're told confirmed in writing by the insurer themselves.

Three questions usually settle it.

Do you need to tow it yourself? Then it has to be a mobile model, and the loaded weight has to stay under 3.5 tonnes. That's a real constraint on the specification, so have a look at the towing question before you fall in love with a long options list.

Will you live there all year? Then look at the semi-mobile or non-mobile models: River, Sky, Zenith, Lucia, Evergreen or Evergreen XL. The mobile ones are built light so they can be towed, which means less insulation than most countries want for year-round housing.

How much space do you really need? Most people guess high. Our 21 m² models are comfortable for two.

Then go and look at them properly. The model index on the home page lists all nineteen, grouped by those same three classes, and every model has its own page. Use them in this order and you will get further in ten minutes than in an hour of comparing base prices:

Floorplan first. It is the fastest way to find out whether a layout suits how you actually live, and it is where most people rule two or three models out.

Then dimensions and weight, which tells you whether you can tow it and whether it clears the transport limits where you are.

Then the 3-D tour, on the models that have one. Photographs flatter small spaces and a walkthrough does not, which is why we would rather you used it.

Then prices and options, where you build the model the way you actually want it and see what it comes to. That number tells you far more than a base price. Send us the result and we will go through it with you.

For a single tiny house, no, not a design of your own from scratch. We used to, and it took so much planning and production time that we couldn't keep up with orders for our own models.

From five units upwards we still do custom designs. At that point the planning and drawing work is spread across the order and it makes sense for both of us, so if you are developing a glamping site, a rental operation or a group of homes, come to us with your design and we will talk about it properly.

What we do offer is a lot of tailoring inside a model: materials, cladding, colours inside and out, kitchen and bathroom fit-out, heating, appliances, furniture, off-grid equipment. Most of the tiny houses we deliver are unique in some way.

Some structural changes are possible too, like shortening a model or mirroring the layout. Mirroring costs nothing. Changing the length or the structure means the drawings and production papers have to be recalculated, so there's a project fee, and we'll quote that before you commit to anything.

Yes! Three new modular tiny houses are on the way: Leah, Helena and Antonia. They go up on the website within the next week or two, so by the end of September 2026.

You can already walk through all three on video: the Leah tiny house tour, the Helena tiny house tour and the Antonia tiny house tour. A walkthrough tells you far more about a small space than a still image can.

Until the pages are up, ask us for drawings, sizes and an indication of price.

Now and then, but not often. They're usually former display or rental tiny houses from our own production, refurbished before they're sold, and they turn up in the same in-stock list as the new ready-built houses at a lower price.

As with any ready-built house, it's sold as it is, so it can't be reconfigured for off-grid use.

One thing worth asking us before you commit: the warranty runs from the original delivery, not from your purchase, so check how much of the five years is left.

Not today, but within a week or two. A sauna is coming, and as of 14 September 2026 it is close enough that it is worth asking us rather than assuming the answer is no. If you are reading this later, look on the website first.

What we have had all along, and what people often have in mind when they ask, is the Nature Pod. It's a cabin rather than a sauna: 12 m² of living area, 6.00 x 2.30 x 2.50 m, built from 45 mm ThermoWood, which is more robust and more durable than ordinary timber. You can set it up in the garden, or add a trailer and pull it behind the car.

You can have it bare or fitted out with a kitchen, bathroom and heating, and insulation is optional, either recycled textile or sheep wool. Uninsulated the room height is 2.40 m, insulated it's 2.25 m. The roof is shingles rather than metal.

Two things worth knowing if you're thinking of towing it. The shell with insulation on a trailer is already 3.1 to 3.2 tonnes, and with a bathroom and kitchen it's about 3.5 tonnes, which is the legal limit. A fully furnished Nature Pod will always be over it. And unlike our other models the pod isn't built onto its trailer. It sits on top held by three straps, so you can take the trailer away and use it separately.

If a sauna is what you're after, tell us now and we'll come back to you as soon as it is live.

It depends on the class, because insulation is where the weight is. Here are the real numbers rather than a description, because this is the question where vague answers cost people money.

Mobile models. 8 cm in the walls, 10 cm in the roof, and an 8 cm PIR sandwich panel in the floor. The documented values are roughly wall U 0.44, roof U 0.42, floor U 0.25 W/(m²K). That's comfortable for year-round use in Scandinavia, but short of what most countries require for a permanent dwelling.

Semi-mobile and non-mobile models. Much more. Lucia is built on 145 mm timber studs, Evergreen XL on 20 cm of mineral wool. Our River has been calculated for Germany at wall U 0.150, roof U 0.150, floor U 0.170, windows Uw 0.870, giving H'T 0.281 against a limit of 0.4222, so comfortably inside.

The material has changed. We have stopped offering recycled textile insulation, so it's mineral wool across the range now. The Nature Pod is the exception and still uses recycled textile or sheep wool.

One honest note about those numbers. The measured U-values for the mobile models were established on the recycled textile build that mineral wool has just replaced. Mineral wool of the type used has a thermal conductivity of about 0.033 to 0.035 W/(mK) against 0.039 for the textile, so at the same thickness the new build should actually be slightly better, somewhere around 0.40 rather than 0.44 for the wall. Until we have a certified sheet for the mineral wool build we'll keep quoting the older, more conservative figures, because a number you can document beats a number you calculated.

For Denmark we've used PIR board in walls and roof with a thicker sandwich panel in the floor. For Germany, wood fibre at 20 cm in the walls and 25 cm in the roof with an Intello vapour membrane instead of PE.

Thin walls don't mean a cold tiny house. The volume is small, so it heats quickly and holds its temperature, and our customers across Scandinavia tell us their houses are comfortable in midwinter. But do be honest with yourself about whether you need a permanent-residence specification, because that really is a different build, and it's much easier to decide now than later.

There's no single right answer here and we offer most of the options.

An air-to-air heat pump heats efficiently and cools in summer, and on the larger models you might want two. Electric underfloor heating is our standard because it's light, which matters on the mobile models, and on the bigger models water-based underfloor heating works too. Infrared panels, and an infrared mirror panel in the bathroom, are popular as a supplement. A wood or pellet stove gives you lovely radiant heat and works off-grid, and we can also just prepare the flue for a stove you supply yourself.

Two practical points, and the first is a safety one rather than advice. Underfloor heating must never be covered by rugs, carpets, mattresses or furniture without legs. Covering it traps the heat and creates a burn and ignition risk, and it voids the warranty. So plan the layout around it, and if you're not sure whether a piece of furniture is a problem, send us the plan and we'll look.

And a wood stove on its own isn't enough for a house left unattended in winter. When the fire goes out the house cools, so pair it with something thermostatic.

Keep it at a minimum of 5 °C, and always above the outside temperature. This is a contractual warranty condition, not just a recommendation, and it's the one our customers most often overlook.

The reason is frozen pipes and the water damage that follows. A tiny house held at a steady temperature and humidity simply lasts longer.

The "always above outside" part matters in the shoulder seasons rather than in summer. If the house is colder than the air around it, moisture condenses inside the structure.

If a wood stove is your only heat source, add a small thermostatic electric heater so the house doesn't cool while you're away. And if you'd rather drain the system for the winter, tell us and we'll go through it with you step by step.

The base price includes the plumbing and electrical preparation. The units, worktop and appliances you choose in the configurator: hob, oven, fridge, dishwasher, extractor and so on, in electric or gas versions.

The standard worktop sits at 90 cm to the top surface.

If you'd rather fit the kitchen yourself, that's absolutely fine, but do let us prepare the space for your extractor. That area takes the humidity, and if it isn't prepared correctly the warranty on the surrounding structure doesn't apply.

Compact and fully functional. A typical layout has a shower, basin and toilet. Bathroom area runs from about 2.3 m² in the smaller mobile models to 3.2 or 3.3 m² in Porto, Smile and Evergreen.

You can swap the shower for a cupboard if you'd rather have the storage, in a simple or a solid wood version.

We'd recommend giving the bathroom its own heat source, an infrared mirror panel or an electric towel radiator. A cold bathroom is where mould starts, and mould from condensation isn't a warranty case.

If you're connected to a sewer, a normal flushing toilet with its own drain.

If you're not, a dry toilet is usually the simplest and most environmentally sensible answer. It cuts water use sharply and makes the whole wastewater problem much smaller. A separating toilet like the Separett Villa 9000 is the affordable end. An incinerating toilet like the Cinderella, electric or gas, costs considerably more but needs no emptying of solids.

One thing to know if you go for a Cinderella: it comes with its own manufacturer's warranty and isn't part of our tiny house warranty. Same for the trailer tyres and the window glazing. That's normal for bought-in equipment, but it's worth knowing before you assume one document covers everything.

Wastewater rules vary by country and often by municipality, so do ask your local authority what they'll accept before you choose. Where there's no sewer connection, greywater filters, compact treatment plants and other local systems are usually approved options, and we can send you what we have on your country.

As standard the tiny house is plumbed to connect to a mains supply: an inlet adapter from 22 mm PEM to 15 mm stainless steel, pipework inside the walls, and a drain from the sinks and shower.

If there's no mains water, we have tank systems. A 210 litre set with pump, buffer, indicator, probe, heating mat and small heater, or a 1250 litre set in a freestanding module. There's also a rainwater harvesting system with a 1250 litre tank, filtration and its own insulated shed, and a 105 litre grey water tank.

One thing we don't offer any more is an outdoor shower. Cold winters damage the pipework and the damage spreads into the house, so we took it out of the range. We can prepare the connection if you want to fit your own, but we can't warrant it, and the same goes for a frostguard heater cable in the pipes. None of that is forbidden, we just can't stand behind what happens afterwards.

A timber frame on a steel chassis for the models with wheels, and a timber frame for the rest. Cladding is spruce as standard, with Shou sugi ban, Oxygenwood and thermowood as options. Inside, the standard is Huntonit panels with spruce, and birch and pine plywood or an all-spruce finish are alternatives.

Facade, terrace and interior cladding are finished with Nelf paints, and most other interior finishes are Osmo decorative wax. You can buy both later for touch-ups, and we'll give you the exact colour references so you order the right thing.

One honest note about wood. Cracks up to 7 cm, knots that loosen or fall out, and colour variation are natural characteristics of solid timber rather than defects, and the warranty treats them that way. Same goes for heat deformation of an aluminium roof. If that would bother you, choose a cladding and a finish that hides movement, and we'll happily talk you through which ones do.

Partly, and this is the thing people most often misjudge from photographs, so it's worth being precise.

The height varies by model and by position, because the roof slopes and because the total height of the tiny house is capped by what can legally be transported.

Two real examples from our drawings. In Porto, the loft over the bathroom runs from 83 to 112 cm and measures 2.26 x 1.72-2.20 m, and the second loft over the entrance is 2.26 x 2.20 m. In Sunshine, the loft over the bathroom runs from 92 to 110 cm and measures 2.26 x 2.30-2.90 m, with a 50 cm luggage loft beside it.

So in the two-loft models you can sit up comfortably and move around on hands and knees, but you can't stand in a loft. Where you can stand is the main room. Room height is 3.21 to 3.26 m in most mobile models, 3.10 m in Sofia and 2.76 m in Luna.

Zenith is the exception. Its floor is recessed into the frame, which gives about 30 cm more interior height throughout. That's also why it has no road wheels.

Ask us for the drawings of the model you're considering before you decide. It takes us two minutes and it's much better than guessing from a photo.

Yes, and most people do. A full-length terrace with a rope railing or with wooden barriers can go on any model, and there are smaller versions too. We can also add a canopy, an appliance shed on the drawbar, or a freestanding insulated module in the same cladding as the tiny house for storage.

If you'd rather build the decking yourself, that's completely fine and many of our customers do.

One thing to bear in mind: in several countries a permanently attached terrace counts towards the built area for permit purposes, while a freestanding deck doesn't. Worth checking before you decide which way to go.

Within limits, yes. Mirroring the whole layout costs nothing. Moving or removing internal elements, changing a window, adding sockets or preparations, or leaving furniture out are all normal requests and we price them individually.

Changing the structure itself, shortening a model for instance, is possible but means the drawings and production papers have to be recalculated, so there's a project fee. Ceiling and loft heights are constrained by transport height and usually can't be raised.

Every change you agree after the contract is signed goes on a list with its price, and that list is settled in the final invoice, so there are no surprises at the end.

Yes, for electricity, heat and water, as long as you plan for it from the start.

Some things can be added to a finished tiny house later. What cannot be retro-fitted is the part that lives inside the structure: the pipework, the tanks and the wiring all go in before the walls are closed up. So a ready-built tiny house from the in-stock list cannot be turned into a full off-grid one afterwards. If off-grid matters to you, say so before the build rather than after, and ask us what can still be added if you have already bought.

The realistic recipe is to move the big energy consumers off electricity. Heat with a wood, pellet or gas stove. Run the boiler, hob and oven on LPG. Then a modest solar array plus a battery bank covers lighting and the small loads. Trying to run electric heating, an electric water heater and an oven off a small solar system just doesn't work, and we'd rather say so than sell you a system that disappoints you.

Do expect the off-grid equipment to add weight, which matters if you also want to stay under 3.5 tonnes. It usually can't be both.

One planning point worth knowing: in several countries, being unconnected to mains services is exactly what keeps you legally a vehicle rather than a building. Portugal says so explicitly, and France's résidence démontable category requires autonomy from networks. So going off-grid can simplify your permit position as well as your bills.

Start from what you will actually use, not from a number of panels. Then size the array for your worst month rather than your average one, because a system that works in June and fails in December is the usual way this goes wrong.

First, your consumption. A Swedish apartment uses roughly 2,000 to 4,000 kWh a year for household electricity. In a small, well-planned tiny house with LED lighting and with heating, hot water and cooking on something other than electricity, you can get down to roughly 600 to 1,000 kWh a year. Every big electric load you keep is worth several panels, so this is where the decision is really made.

Then your latitude, which matters more than anything else on this page. The same array on the same roof produces very different amounts in Lagos and in Lapland, and the gap is far wider in December than across the year as a whole. In northern Scandinavia there is a stretch of midwinter where no sensible array on a tiny house roof will keep up, whatever you spend; in Portugal or southern Spain the winter dip is mild enough that a modest system runs all year. Between those, in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands or Ireland, midwinter is the pinch point but it is a manageable one.

Rather than quote a number for your country, get your own: the European Commission's free PVGIS tool gives month-by-month output for your exact coordinates, roof angle and orientation. Put your site in, look at December, and size from that. We are happy to go through the result with you.

Then the roof you actually have. On a mobile model the roof is the hard limit, and it is small. That, not the budget, is usually what caps the array. It is also why orientation and shade matter so much here: a tiny house sited in the trees, which is where people want them, can lose a large part of its winter production to shading that a rooftop system on a house would never see. Tell us where the house will stand and which way it will face.

Then storage. You need an inverter to get 230 V, and a battery bank sized for roughly three days without production. Our standard package is 1280 W of panels with 220 Ah of storage, which suits an energy-efficient tiny house used through the lighter half of the year. Batteries also lose usable capacity in the cold, so a bank that is comfortable in September is tighter in January. Keep the battery inside the insulated envelope if you can.

And be honest about midwinter. Most people living off-grid year-round in the north have a second source for the darkest weeks: a generator, an occasional shore-power connection, or simply using less. That is normal and not a failure of the system. Planning for it is cheaper than buying the array that would avoid it.

One thing to be clear about: our solar systems are off-grid systems with a battery. Excess energy is not fed back into the grid. Once the battery is full, the system simply holds it there.

Send us your location, your model and a rough list of what you want to run, and we will size it with you rather than selling you a package and hoping.

Pre-assembled and ready to move into, straight to your site.

Mobile models arrive on their own trailer. Semi-mobile, non-mobile and modular models come on a low-loader, roughly 23 m long and 40 tonnes, and get unloaded with a tractor, forklift or crane depending on your site. The Nature Pod travels on a tent truck if you haven't ordered a trailer, and on a low-loader if you have.

Cranes, tractors and forklifts aren't included. If your site needs one, you arrange it and it has to be there when the tiny house arrives. If you've booked our basic installation service, we position and level the house and adjust the doors and windows once it's down.

The road to your site wants to be at least 1.2 m wider than the tiny house. In practice that's 3.75 m for a mobile model, 4.20 m for Smile, Julia, River or Evergreen, and 4.65 m for Sky or Zenith. It should also be about 15 cm higher than the house, or 60 cm for a low-loader delivery of a large model, and clear of branches and cables.

For a low-loader you also need somewhere to unload, at least 50 m with room to manoeuvre.

If you're not sure your access works, send us photographs and the route. We'd much rather find out now than on delivery day, and we're happy to look at it as many times as you need.

The tiny house needs a level base. A slope of no more than 0.12 m over 8 m is fine.

For a mobile model up to 3.5 tonnes: take off about 30 cm of soil, fill with 30/60 mm crushed stone, compact and level.

For a semi-mobile model over 3.5 tonnes: take off 30 to 50 cm of soil and fill with compacted crushed stone, or lay point foundations or a slab to our drawing.

For a modular home up to 20 tonnes: a reinforced concrete slab or reinforced strip foundation, exactly level, with the utility connections brought to the right places.

We supply the drawings, including the support-point locations for your model, so you can hand them straight to whoever does the groundwork.

Often not. Most of our tiny houses come with eight adjustable support legs included in the price, and they stand on concrete pads. If the ground settles over the first few months you just re-level the legs. That is how most of what we deliver ends up standing: no foundation at all.

You can use concrete piers or screw piles instead. With screw piles the specialist firm needs the exact number of bearing points and the weight of the house. They set a test pile to find the depth and then warrant the result, and levelling plates on top let the house be aligned.

If you do use a slab, be precise about it. A house standing out of true is the usual reason a door or window stops closing properly.

Two things to know before you decide. Adjusting the support stays over time is maintenance, so it isn't covered by the warranty, and neither is damage caused by a house left standing out of level.

Foundation and crane costs sit outside our expertise and vary enormously from site to site. In Germany a reinforced slab has typically been 8,000 to 20,000 EUR, but please treat that as an order of magnitude only and get a local quote.

You bring the services to the right place on the plot before the tiny house arrives. After that you can connect the house yourself, use a local contractor, or book our connection service for any of electricity, gas, water, the water tank and pump, or the wastewater system.

Connection services are never included in the house price. They're listed separately for every model.

The house connects through a single external socket, and there's a fuse box inside. All the grey water from basins, shower, sink, dishwasher and washing machine joins into one pipe under the house. A flushing toilet has its own separate drain, so black and grey water stay apart.

One word of warning that comes up in warranty cases: condensation damage caused by inadequate ventilation isn't covered. If you close off vents, or put a lot of moisture into a small volume without extraction, that one's on you rather than on the house.

All of Europe. Our biggest markets by enquiry are Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria and Portugal, and we deliver regularly to the UK, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.

If you're outside the EU, so Norway, Switzerland or the UK, there's import VAT and customs to handle. We've covered that separately below.

Islands and remote regions are sometimes awkward and we'll need to research the route before we can quote. Send us your postcode and we'll tell you.

If we deliver outside the EU you pay import VAT, any customs duty and clearance fees when the tiny house arrives. We sell it without EU VAT in that case.

Norway: 25% Norwegian VAT on arrival, plus any duty. Switzerland: 8.1% import VAT plus any duty. United Kingdom: customs declarations are needed on all EU imports, the UK-EU trade agreement gives zero tariffs subject to rules of origin, and import VAT is charged at the border. Worth knowing before you order: under the UK caravan rules, a unit over 7 m long built to BS 3632 is zero-rated for UK VAT. Northern Ireland is still aligned with EU goods rules, so a direct Sweden-to-NI shipment avoids the GB import formalities altogether.

We handle the export side. Our customs agency prepares the export declaration and the paperwork, and their handling costs are part of the delivery price. Duty charged by the destination country is yours, and we're not able to settle it for you.

We've put together detailed information documents for the UK, Norway and Switzerland. Just ask for the one that applies to you.

Five years from delivery, on the tiny house. Most tiny house builders give one or two years, so five is at the long end of the market.

In nearly every case we come to you and put it right on your own plot. We only bring in a local firm where that is genuinely more practical, a specialist part or a very long distance, and we arrange it for you either way. The warranty is issued through our production; the person knocking on your door is us.

The deadline matters more than anything else here, so please read this bit. A defect has to be reported within 14 days of you finding it. Miss that window and the claim is lost. Tell us, with photographs or video, and we register it for you. You get an answer within 14 days, and putting things right takes up to 6 weeks, or 8 if it's complicated. If you're not sure whether something counts, send it anyway. A short email now is better than a complete report later.

The warranty covers the country we originally delivered to. If you move the house to another country, you move it out of the warranty, so tell us before you do it rather than after.

Conditions you need to keep. The house has to be kept at a minimum of 5 °C all year, and always above the outside temperature. Underfloor heating must never be covered by rugs, mattresses or furniture without legs. The extractor area in the kitchen has to be prepared by us. And the ventilation needs to be used as it was designed.

What isn't covered. The Cinderella toilet, the trailer tyres and the window glazing all come with their own manufacturers' warranties instead. Condensation damage from inadequate ventilation. Natural characteristics of solid wood, so cracks up to 7 cm, knots loosening, colour variation. Heat deformation of an aluminium roof. Adjusting the support stays, and regular maintenance generally. Repairs done by a third party. Bird damage. And anything you've added yourself onto a prepared connection: outdoor pipework, a frostguard heater cable, an outdoor shower.

None of those exclusions is a reason not to do the thing. We'll do the preparation gladly. We just can't stand behind what happens afterwards.

You'll get the full warranty card with your handover documents. Do read it before you need it.

It depends what kind of problem it is, and knowing which of the three routes to take will save you time.

A warranty defect comes to us, within 14 days of you finding it, with photographs or video. That deadline is a condition, so send something short straight away rather than a polished report later. We register the claim and follow it through with you.

Anything to do with the sale, so configuration, delivery, paperwork, a change to your order, comes to your usual person here in Uppsala. We're on +46 (0)18 25 88 99 and info@vagabondhaven.com, at Geijersgatan 46B, 752 26 Uppsala.

A bought-in appliance, so heat pump, stove, boiler, white goods or the Cinderella toilet, goes to that manufacturer under their own warranty.

If you're not sure which of the three it is, just ask us and we'll tell you.

Their own manufacturers. Built-in equipment from other makers, so heat pump, stove, boiler, white goods and specifically the Cinderella toilet, is covered by that manufacturer's warranty and you deal with them directly. The trailer tyres and the window glazing work the same way.

The tiny house structure itself is under our five-year warranty.

We'll tell you which units are fitted, give you the documentation, and help you work out which route a problem belongs on if it isn't obvious.

We don't rent tiny houses out ourselves, we sell them. Some of our customers do rent theirs, on Airbnb and at campsites, and every now and then that means you can stay in one before you buy. Ask us and we'll tell you what we know of near you.

If you're planning to rent yours out as a business, do say so early. It changes which model makes sense, and it usually changes what your municipality requires. Several countries treat a rented unit as a commercial tourist facility with its own rules, and in Italy for instance putting a mobile unit inside an authorised open-air tourist facility is one of the few routes that avoids a full building permit.

Not in Sweden any more, although that's where we started and where our head office still is. Our tiny houses are built in our production in Poland and Latvia, in workshops we have worked with for years.

Everything you experience as a customer, so the advice, the configuration, the quotation, the follow-up and the aftercare, comes from the Vagabond Haven team here in Uppsala.

Often, yes, and it is easier than you would think: most of the viewings on our book a viewing page are at our customers' own tiny houses, so booking one is usually the fastest way to get an owner in front of you.

If there is nothing near you, ask us anyway. Some owners are happy to answer questions by phone or email even when a visit is impractical, and we can ask on your behalf.

It's one of the most useful things you can do before deciding, and honestly we'd rather you heard the unvarnished version from an owner than only the polished version from us.

Yes, and it's a growing part of what we do. Several of our customers run holiday and glamping operations with a mix of models.

For a project like that, tell us the number of units, the site, whether you need them identical or varied, and what your local authority requires. Delivering several tiny houses to one site is usually cheaper per unit, and the planning question is normally the harder half of the problem, so do bring us in early.

From five units upwards we will also build to your own design rather than ours, which is worth knowing early because it changes what is worth drawing.

If you're interested in reselling our houses rather than operating them, that's a different conversation and we have a partner programme. Just ask and we'll send you the details.