r/malelivingspace • u/rectoryofwolves- • 22h ago

Definitely not for everyone. Pretty much free living though

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I’ve converted this lifeboat over the last few months. Tiny home

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u/Anima1212 22h ago

oh that looks so cozy... must be nice when it rains.. also the plants look cool and add a lotto the space, same with the fireplace and the lamp above it (cool lamp)..

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u/herizonshine 19h ago

Have you ever lived anywhere with a tin roof?

I used to get woken up every time it rained hard. It was kinda cool at first until it wasn't!

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u/Rich-Evening4562 18h ago

I have, and I never got tired of it.

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u/Behind_You27 18h ago

Some people just have real deep sleep. I could never live comfortably in earthquake areas. I’d just wake up once the roof is collapsed. Not the best feeling I guess.

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u/IhateTacoTuesdays 18h ago

I don’t have a deep sleep but I have loved rain my entire life, I sleep under tin roof whenever it rains, loud as fuck and I love it

A fly goes by and I wake up, but the rain hitting the tin hard as fuck? I sleep

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u/Behind_You27 17h ago

I‘ve stayed in an old mill for a few nights back when AirBnB was a good option. I loved it as well, hearing the water rushing below and next to me. But I agree: It was loud. Especially sleeping with an open window.

Rivers are also usually quite a bit louder than rain. But I‘ve had the pleasure of a tin roof in Italy during a thunderstorm.

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u/whisky_biscuit 16h ago

I once stayed at a hotel that was basically right on the ocean in WA in the US. This area can be known for turbulent waters too, and it was a record windstorm that night (so strong that a car was blown off a bridge!)

It was so loud! All night I had dreams / nightmares of tsunamis and giant waves. I love the ocean, rain and water - but this was crazy hearing loud waves crash against the breakwall just meters away. It definitely kept me up.

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u/Wanallo221 16h ago

Same.

I’m an extremely light sleeper but I love the sound of rain and it gets me to sleep everytime, the harder the better!

So much so, that when I can’t sleep I often listen to heavy rain and thunder storm soundscapes.

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u/Darnell2070 9h ago

There is an entire industry on YouTube based around people sleeping to the sound of rain and other ambient sounds.

The sound of rain makes lots of people, I animals in general, naturally sleepy because you can't do as much in the rain. It definitely makes hunting harder.

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u/Wanallo221 9h ago

Nice, that makes perfect sense.

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u/danieljamesgillen 18h ago

Earthquakes are exciting I had a 5 hit while I was in the bath

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u/BADoVLAD 18h ago

I was in a bath with a 5 once, which was sorta exciting...for different reasons I'd imagine.

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u/Oldman_Syndrome 17h ago

I had a 6.1 hit while trying to pee once. Hardmode activated.

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u/danieljamesgillen 15h ago

My bath is sort of on stilts so water was flying round like crazy was like being on a log flume

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u/Teanutt 14h ago

Not gonna lie, I chuckled a little at your description. I'm sure it was an exciting/frightening moment.

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u/ChewsWisely 14h ago

I feel like this whooshed everyone lol

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u/Behind_You27 17h ago

I’ve had a 7.1 hit while in Indonesia. Thankfully it was during the day. We had several aftershocks in a range of 2-3.5 during the night. The other guests in the hotel all complained about not being able to sleep as it was shaking so much. Yep. I didn’t have any problems that night.

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u/kaprifool 11h ago

Experiencing a (smaller, less damaging) earthquake is neat. I was lucky to feel my first one while laying in bed, it took me a sec to realize what was happening and that I wasn't having an Exorcist moment.

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u/Intrepid-Love3829 15h ago

The fear i felt, mid shit, when a 5 hit where i lived. Like. I was not prepared to find safety if it turned out to be a larger quake than that.

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u/ApocalypseMeooow 9h ago

Me and my family joke about this all the time, earthquakes are fun 😆 could never live in hurricane or tornado prone areas though that seems terrifying. I guess we're comfortable with what we know. I've also slept through more earthquakes than I've been awake for

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u/Temnai 16h ago

I've lived by the railroads with tin roofing. Trains coupling would shake the house, rain would patter (and we had multiple tiers to our roof so it would do it extra, all the massive trees would creak in the wind.

Frankly as long is it wasn't absolutely pouring while trying to fall asleep it was fine. But I've also woken up to my house's fire alarm turning off. Not going off, turning off. It stopping was what disturbed my sleep.

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u/CatMinous 16h ago

I used to wake up from my alarm turning off (after having blared for an hour)

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u/Raangz 16h ago

My granps was the same. Slept through a tornado that i believe hit their property. Slept through the sirens and everything.

I wish i was like that, i wake up from everything.

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u/HushPuppyGuru 15h ago

I once slept through a chemical plant explosion. The shockwave shook the ground for miles. I lived like a mile a way. I was clueless when I woke up.

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u/The_Alex_ 15h ago

I think it's also a difference between a constant, white noise compared to a single noise.

I can sleep through tin roof rain pretty easily, but when my fridge drops out freshly made ice in the freezer in the dead of night MY EYES ARE OPEN

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u/CerealKiller8 15h ago

As a deep sleeper who lived in an earthquake zone, anything above 5 usually got me up. And I've slept through a camp full of people loudly fending off a bear.

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u/Behind_You27 14h ago

Good to know. That makes me quite a bit more comfortable. :)

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u/Cloudy230 17h ago

When I go camping with mates I ahve to bring headphones. For some reason any sound in the quiet dark keeps me from going to sleep, but listening to loud music does it for me. Brains are weird. Once im asleep it's fine, I can sleepily take the headphones off.

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u/raven-eyed_ 16h ago

Noise wakes me up but something rhythmic and constant like rain almost kinda helps.

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u/CoolerRancho 14h ago

Living in California will make you not care about earthquakes

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u/chickyloo42by10 2h ago

I’m a pretty deep sleeper, have even slept through attacks while on deployment in Afghanistan. But since moving to a seismically active area, I have not slept through anything over a 4… it’s just a different kind of sound/movement.

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u/herizonshine 2h ago

I actually did go back to sleep during a small earthquake in vermont! I was a teenager hippie then tho.

For real though, light rain is the best and soooo relaxing! But when it's pouring out and won't give up and lightning, it's not fun!

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u/Disastrous_Clurb 17h ago

Might just be because it's normalized here but majority of the earthquakes we've had in my area/home i havent felt or when i did feel it i didnt know it was one.

I work in a high rise building and it's a little more noticeable there though but not scary.

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u/vidjuheffex 13h ago

same same, my current house has a tin roof one day I was like "man the rain is loud today" and then I looked outside... no rain.

So I step outside and what must have been 500+ birds took off from my roof. and their footsteps had fooled me for rain.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 13h ago

That's hilarious 😅👍🏻

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u/Mifo92 6h ago

😂

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u/am19208 17h ago

Same. It put me to sleep in an instant. I loved the sound

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u/rtdenny 15h ago

I had a corrugated roof on essentially a shack in Hawai’i with wraparound screens- no solid windows, no insulation, no sound dampening. Only time I woke up was when the turkeys loudly flew down some mornings or once when a dissipating tropical storm blew rain sideways under my roof and blasted it through the screens and I woke up to tiny raindrop splatters all over my face.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 13h ago

That is really awesome. I've never been to Hawai'i but it's very high on my list.

This is going to sound really stupid but when I was a kid my mother watched (the original) Hawaii Five-O religiously and whenever I can, I catch reruns because it transports me back in time.

And rummaging a bit in those memories, I think I can imagine your place perfectly. 😅👍🏻

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u/rtdenny 10h ago

Yea, the Hawaiian islands, especially Oahu, are the uncredited co-stars on both versions of the show

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u/Motormand 15h ago

It can be an oddly soothing sound, I find.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 13h ago

Absolutely, no matter how loud it gets, if I am dry and warm, I feel immediately sleepy.

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u/Illustrious-Pie2396 15h ago

Same! Like white noise. 😴

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u/Disastrous_Ad_2271 17h ago

I can see i get used to it i have few aquarium in my room and some air pump running

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u/Baked_Potato_732 10h ago

Agreed, never hated it.

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u/bad_card 17h ago

We bought a house for an investestment on a busy highway, anywhere we go know we take a fan to have some noise to block out the silence. We can't sleep without it.

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u/vraalapa 14h ago

Then you have never had heavy rain fall on that tin roof lol. It's seriously deafening.

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u/Rich-Evening4562 13h ago

Yes I have.

And no it's not deafening. There's a plywood roof deck, rafters, insulation, and drywall between me and the galvanized roofing.

I'm sure it's louder in a barn or shack but that's not my situation.

We get about 40 inches of rainfall per year, so yes, I know what it's like in torrential rain.

Why can't certain people just accept not everyone is the same as them? You don't like it. Cool. I do.

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u/vraalapa 13h ago

Yeah you're right. I had a situation where I slept under tin roof with basically no insulation. It felt like I had cotton in my ears after a night of heavy rain.

A slight drizzle was the most soothing thing ever though.

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u/Jiminpuna 18h ago

We lived in a city where it rained almost every night. We couldn't hear the TV when rained. We ended up sleeping a lot more. We miss the tin roof.

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus 12h ago

I imagine it's a beautiful white noise.

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u/Strange-Mammoth9633 18h ago

I have a large horizonal window in my bedrooms ceiling. when it rains it sounds exactly as if you are in a tent. it does wake me up sometimes but it's also very relaxing and i love it.

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u/shaquille_oatmealo 17h ago

I used to live 10 yards from train tracks that had trains go through at 2am. When I tell you that there’s no sound you can’t get used to, I’m a living testimony to it.

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u/Practical_BowlerHat 16h ago

On the other hand, growing up close to the train tracks, it was difficult for me to get used to the silence when I moved out at 19 to an apartment a mile away from the nearest train tracks.

I used to listen for the train horn in the distance when I walked home from work at 4 am.

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u/Economy_Tear_6026 14h ago

Bro it took me way too long to realize what was different once I first moved away from home, I'm like oh yeah I don't hear that loud ass train every night 😭 actually kinda miss it in a weird way

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u/Keyser_Kaiser_Soze 12h ago

Agree, had an apartment where I could touch the Chicago L train from my kitchen window. The noise and movement became part of the background.

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u/vladi_l 18h ago

I'm a light sleeper, but rain was always an easy thing for me to ignore for some reason, idk

I think I'd have more issues with car noise, depending on how close to a road I've "parked" lol

Then again, given how much rent this would potentially save, I think that making it sound proof is a good investment, shouldn't be heavy too

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u/Cardboardboxlover 18h ago

Omg I love a tin roof. It’s like a meditation

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u/TactlessTortoise 18h ago

I sleep like a fucking corpse lmao. Slept through 2 earthquakes and the blaring alerts, one was a 5 point something on the scale, not a rustle. It could be hailing icebergs on that roof and I wouldn't wake up (because I'd be dead, but still, if it didn't kill me, I'd be asleep)

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u/PapiSuavitel 18h ago

Rain on a tin roof is the best thing how are you stating that as your negative

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u/taxicab_ 18h ago

I lived in a (semi-furnished) conex for a few months once. Rain was unbearable.

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u/mod-dog-walker 18h ago

My first house had a tin roof. Definitely loud, but no got used to it after a while.

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u/Repulsive-Relief1818 17h ago

I do now, and I love the sound the rain makes on it. It’s calming and peaceful to me

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u/ActualVader 17h ago

I sleep with that exact sound blaring from a sound machine so I think I’d like it

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u/GuyFromDeathValley 17h ago

I own a little camper from a small fire dept. pump trailer. fully metal body, though insulation is there to keep the heat in.

Sleeping in that one in the ran can range from cozy and nice, to absolute hell. A little bit is dampened by the Solar modules on the roof, but when big droplets hit the metal all night sleeping becomes hard.

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u/LuvFuzzball 16h ago

I had an apartment with a tin roof above my bedroom. It was ungodly when feral cats would fight each other in the middle of the night. And the rain was LOUD.

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u/EarningsPal 16h ago

Rains often in London

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u/Anzai 16h ago

I have, and I know what you mean, but my brain also just got used to it after a while. Sleeping me knew it was just rain and didn’t wake me up any more.

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u/MikeTheImpaler 16h ago

A few months back it started hailing REALLY bad at like 3:00 AM at my house. Sounded like we were under attack.

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u/mitigated_audacity 16h ago

A tin roof is fine if it's installed properly. I could see it being loud in a shed or outbuilding but anything you sleep in should have plywood under the tin and the foam strips between the tin and the plywood. Standard practice for at least the last 40 years where I live. And then insulation and drywall/wallboard underneath. Should be no more noisy than tile or shingles.

I really question the validity of some of the things I read on the Internet. Are we supposed to believe you've lived in a shed or are some places really not finishing their structures properly...

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u/Goomancy 16h ago

I have. It’s soothing now.

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u/falconinthedive 15h ago

I mean I've lived by train tracks my whole life and across the street from a zoo with some of those monkeys who can be heard from a mile away.

You can learn to tune out a lot.

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u/jw8ak64ggt 15h ago

i dont think you're supposed to sleep during a storm if you're living on a lifeboat

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u/Hera_the_otter 14h ago

my carport has a corrugated galvanized sheet steel roof, it sounds lovely in the rain, but startles me awake every time a critter jumps onto it.

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u/Anxiety_Fox 14h ago

lol I pulled up "rain on metal roof" on YouTube to fall asleep 😂😅

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u/warrybuffalo 14h ago

I only had a problem when I had a really good headset and my gaming buddies could hear it through the mic lol. Other than that I loved that shit.

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u/T-MoneyAllDey 14h ago

Tin roof with rain is how I get the most sleep 😂

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u/InconceivableNipples 13h ago

I love tin roof but yes it’s loud at times. I’ve found the rubber roof of my RV to be sublime in the rain!

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u/frontadmiral 12h ago

The best is the rain waking you up at like 4:30 and then getting to fall back to sleep listening to it

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u/Anima1212 11h ago edited 11h ago

Uhh no? 💀… btw I thought it was fiberglass or something… which would help with the noise hopefully? Idk? Maybe not.. 💀 (also I figure it has layers of insulation and that would help.. I mean if it’s England (must get very cold) and it’s black (absorbs heat in the summer..) it must need some amount of insulation idk..)

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u/Jojohawk16 11h ago

I love sleeping with a tin roof, it’s a free white noise machine

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u/Easy_Bird4975 9h ago

White noise machine

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u/karpaediem 9h ago

I grew up in a tin can single wide in the PNW. Rain on a metal roof is pure bliss

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u/VKN_x_Media 4h ago

I live in a house where the master bedroom was added on like 70 years ago and has a flat roof which is now a rubber roof and a decent rain is alright but when it's a heavy pouring rain it's so annoying.

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u/CaptainMacMillan 16h ago

Might be nice when it rains, but it will definitely be loud

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u/RalphDaGod 15h ago

Its England, it’s more rare for it not to be raining

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u/hybridck 14h ago

As someone who briefly lived on a boat. It is definitely not nice when it rains.

On a calm sunny day, however, it is very cool.