How To Build A Tiny House WORKSHOP: Castlemaine

Name: How To Build A Tiny House WORKSHOP: Castlemaine
Start: 2025-12-05T23:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-12-07T06:00:00+11:00
Location: Lyttleton St, Castlemaine VIC 3450, Australia

Schedule

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 11:00 pm to Sun, 07 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

Lyttleton St, Castlemaine VIC 3450, Australia | Castlemaine, VI

How to Build a Tiny House in Australia: Comprehensive Workshop + Free Online Course
Attend our detailed in-person weekend workshop and get lifetime access to How To Build A Tiny House - The Australian Online Course for free (usually $288). Build your tiny house on wheels light, safe, and strong.
You’re eager to build a tiny house on wheels, but you need clear, practical guidance on how everything fits together.
Get informed, clear, and honest information from an expert who knows and has done it all.
What You Will Learn:
In this weekend workshop, you will learn:
Risks with Tiny House Builds: Material selection, weight, transport, and compliance.
Planning and Building Essentials: Key elements you need to get right.
Building Terminology: Speak with confidence at your local timber yard.
Building Methods: Suitable for tiny houses on wheels, ensuring strength and light weight.
Construction Material Comparisons: Pros and cons of wood, steel, and SIPs.
Safety and Mobility: How to make your tiny house safe to travel.
Going Large: Considerations for going over size by width, height, length or weight.
Cyclonic Conditions: Adapting construction techniques for mobile structures.
Design for Climate: Keeping cool in the Australian summer.
Design Features: Trailer choices, roof styles, ladders vs. stairs, and more.
Unified Construction Method®: Producing the strongest and lightest attachment between tiny house and trailer.
DIYable: Insulation, off-grid solutions, and total DIY capability.
VSB1 Revision 6 Compliance: Essential knowledge for all builders about the national vehicle standards.
Bracing Ply Dos and Don’ts: Ensuring structural integrity.
Condensation Management: Tips for various climates, including information on different membranes.
Floor Construction: Detailed guidance on reducing weight, increasing strength and attachment options.
Building Corners: Best practices for tiny houses on wheels.
Site Assessment: How to level your tiny house.
Transport Issues and Options: What to consider.
Roof Design: Key considerations for different situations.
Loft Construction: Tips for optimal space usage.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is ideal for:
DIY Builders: Anyone looking to build their own tiny house.
Informed Consumers: Those wanting to purchase a tiny house or trailer.
Tradespeople: Interested in branching out into tiny house building (See our Partner Builders page for more information on the Unified Construction Method®).

Special Treat for Castlemaine Workshop Attendees:
Come and see our Tiny House on Wheels at our home in Castlemaine. We can arrange a lunch break on Saturday at Fred's residence so that you can have a tour of his original tiny house and see a tiny house trailer in the 'flesh' (metal)!
We can only offer this kind of tour for Castlemaine based workshops, so come and get the tour and close up look at a tiny house example.
What Others Are Saying:
“Great information!!! Fred is very much a subject-matter-expert; very knowledgeable and easily explained details to both novice and experienced builders in attendance.”
~Maggie Wayne. May 2025
“Glad to have people like Fred who are obsessive about detail and optimisation also have a tenacious scientific mind, so I can benefit from all this incredible content!! I would not have stood a chance. It was well organised, engaging, excellent detail feeling very grateful for the info and support. Feel very prepared now. So practical.”
~Claire Wiglesworth. Nurse and Strength Trainer. May 2025
“Attending the tiny home workshop with Fred’s Tiny Homes was an incredibly valuable experience. Fred’s deep knowledge, passion and genuine commitment to ethical building really stood out. He took the time to explain every aspect of the tiny home journey-from design to legal considerations and practical building tips…making complex topics easy to understand.
I walked away feeling informed and much more confident about pursuing my own tiny home business. I highly recommend Fred’s workshops to anyone considering this lifestyle change, even if you are not going to attempt the build, you need this knowledge.”
~Jason O’Neill. Builder. May 2025
“Soooo…. Much information. A lot of this (building info) was very new to me, so being able to go into the Online Course now and revisit the information will be great. Fred is a terrific educator also able to make difficult concepts easy to understand. Thanks so much.”
~Cait Steiner. Nurse / Midwife. May 2025
“Fred is passionate about tiny house building, and that's infectious. This course has really helped me clarify what I would like to build. At a time when buying a full sized house is out of reach… I'm excited and feeling empowered. There's a lot of info online… And also a lot of mixed messages! I wanted to attend a workshop with someone who had a lot of experience and ethics.”
~Donna Matthews. May 2025
“1) Good pace. 2) Empowering to get a better (considered) solution to buy/build a tiny house on wheels. 3) Contacts e.g. I feel the builder in attendance who subscribed to Fred's techniques could possibly build me my tiny house on wheels - great networking opportunity and learnings. 4) “Best in class” products & war stories on what works from other participants.”
~Xavier Corray. IT Support. May 2025

Success Stories:
Past workshop participants share their journeys! See Candid Tiny House Season 1 for 6 interviews.
See their tiny houses on wheels, and hear about what it was like to be a DIY builder. Learn from their experiences via Candid Tiny House Podcast interviews and video tours on youtube!
Start here with Season 1 Episode 1 : Luke and Jess
Money Back Guarantee:
We stand by all our workshops and are confident that you will leave satisfied. That’s a 100% money back guarantee.

EVENT DETAILS:
Dates: 6th & 7th December 2025
Times: 9am - 4pm Saturday & Sunday
Venue: Fellowship Room Uniting Church Hall Castlemaine: 24 Lyttleton St Castlemaine, VIC
Cost: $450 per person (includes forever access to Online Course for ongoing resource, value $288)
$750 for 2 people (saving of $150 for second person)
Please bring with you:
- Notepad and pen
- Lunch (there are local cafes open and there's access to a kitchen at the hall for heating and storing food, etc)
- Water bottle
- Notes on your tiny house design
Ongoing Support and Resources:
After attending the weekend workshop you gain access to Fred's Tiny House Community Facebook page where you can draw from the pool of past students, many of whom are currently building or have recently built their own tiny house on wheels in Australia. Connect with like-minded, conscientious people. In addition to the Online Course forever-access, this is a huge support to your on-going research, collaboration and community needs.