Our 'House without 'WHEELS' -Part 01

_______ 'Thinking about a HOUSE'.

The SHED is in place - every Aussie Bloke has to have a SHED. Oct. 2011 the shed was our's = 30' x 30' x 12',
bonus carport 12' x 30' x 12' and a small block for a compact house

The SHED - complete under cover storage for our caravan and vehicle

The carport and block

Time to sort out stuff

Crikey we have some stuff__

Johnno provided the packing sheets to line our shed

Getting organized

Our fruit trees are going to have to go, when we build our HOUSE

Stepping it out! Not sure it's 'BIG' enough!

11th Nov. 2013 - Started thinking seriously about a house.

So we sand mapped it out to give us some sense of our available space. One meter off both fence lines permitted, thus we have used all of it!

On our private beach

Salvaging the paving bricks, where the rain water tank will go

Neatly stacked for latter use

Another practical use for an IRONING board, mind you it's never used for it's intended purpose

Painting in progress

Much better and insulated on the west wall

Garage sale - quick release wood working vice and the grinding wheel for $25

Ground good and soft during July, easy to dig out the small palm trees and transplanted at Chook's place. The large palm salvaged by Leon

Drainage ____

control past our gate and shed

plus a gutter to stop flooding our neighbours yard

Trim the fruit tress

4 months later time to go! and notice
the large palm tree has gone!!

Going!

Gone!!

Before the tree loopers - Lincoln Tree Control

Going___

Still going!!

GONE!!

Now this guy is magic to watch

All done in 1-1/2 hours, Wow, has it opened up the sky

Hilly - Ashley's son in law salvaged the timber for his winter warming stock pile

View from the vacant land in front our our place = WOW!!

Fast forward another 3 months - it's all happening floor plans drawn up back in Oct, Nov., approved by council Dec, building contract signed 0930 hrs 10th Feb.2015

Beauty, somethings happened whilst we were at Point Bolingbroke

House is NORTH facing, veiw of Winters Hill

and north entrance to Boston Bay

That's it all done!

If only, this is the 3D layout from Millers Kitchens

Back to reality, the ground work started 2nd April

Ah! the sewage connection

Morning walk and on disposing of some rubbish picked up in Puckridge Park required a return visit to collect these treasures from the bin - the packets are de-scaling stuff for kettles and coffee machines - a 10 year supply it seems.

Easter long week end over- back to work

Post holes drilled and filled with concrete base

Tank delivery

We just pushed it off - easy done

Easy - just drop the tanks here - thanks

Sue's quote 'Looks a bit small'

Just in case you are wondering and save you counting,

there are 51 post!

Now concreted in place and post tar sealed

Mitre 10 delivery

Tank located____

over the fence

Floor frames done

Looking bigger

Plumbing going in

Under floor insulation in place

Roof trusses being delivered - pre-fabbed in Keith S.A.

Flooring panels going down in the wet!!

Serious pipe hangers

Still wet!!

Our 1st sun rise from this elevation - Lounge room

On-site to ensure the under ground piping is correct and just as well The pipe in the fore ground ____

Car port slab cut for electrical cables from meter box, and down pipes from shed gutters

______is now correct next to the fence,

utility basin and dump point to sewage

Wall frames nearly done early AM

Utility basin complete with 'S' bend with more photo's of ___

'as built' location of pipe work for future reference

Sliding gate valve to release the piping stagnant

water pre-winter rains

Wow! By knock off! all the frames are up,

except the kitchen and lounge

Added my own draw pipe to or from the shed before they back fill and concrete the car port

Shed end of the draw pipe, and rain water pipe to
shed for Caravan water supply etc

We have been away for a week!!

Progress is being made and _____

10 day's later even more progress!!

Roof is ALMOST on and now DRY!!

It's going to be magic when the veranda gets done!!

Roof is ON!!

Windows and laundry door - DONE!

Front windows and door = DONE!

It's looking bigger Sue!

Ceiling battens in _ and we are off to
holiday in Thailand whilst they get on with it.
With out us looking over their shoulders every day

Thanks to Margaret our neighbour and brother Ashley we are able to keep up with progress

Ashley's - Cladding in progress still

Front cladding - Ah! electrics in

Able to check all the power points etc

A wet view of the bay - North entrance, our neighbours tank and roof line will be screened when we adjust the fence height later.

Margaret's photo's - after 26 mm's of rain and her shoe's clogged with heavy CLAY - Thanks Margaret.

Opp's that veranda end window looks a bit low? Zoom in!____

Yep! only 1500 mm, looking at the neighbours and the
BBQ will reside below this window also.

An e-mail and 30 minutes later Jodie at Shepperd Building has confirmed the tradies have relocated the window up 1800 mm.

From: Office Shepperd Building <info@shepperdbuilding.com.au>

To: Graham Cowley <gscowley@yahoo.com>

Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 9:57 AM

Subject: RE: Deck window height

Hi Graham and Sue

Cold and Icey here as you can imagine!!

You just caught the boys in time before they were about to put the window in. This has been arranged and they are moving it up as far as possible. Enjoy the warm and steamy hot weather J

Regards

Jodie Fowler

Another thanks to Margaret with her very timely photo.

Now for the next installment as we await more photo's____