Progress on balustrading
Mark has been working on the balustrade again today, adding the uprights to about half the balustrade so far. It's looking more and more finished. On the picture below you can see before on the right and after on the left.
Posts tagged 'building-process'
The deck is coming along nicely
Over the last few months I have been busily working on the deck.
We purchased recycled and new decking timber. The new decking we purchased mainly because we couldn't get enough recycled decking at the time.
In my experience it is a lot nicer to work with recycled decking as …
Guided Tour
Here is a guided tour of our house on the first of the wall raising working bee.
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The deck, the roof and then...
Nick and Roger are amazing. In the last 4 weeks they have managed to do the deck, have the roof completed so the roofer can start and all internal walls are up as well. If you are ever considering building a straw bale house these are the guys to get …
The Yin and Yang of Building
Just before Christmas, a wild storm swept through Conondale. I arrived just after it had ended. I hadn't seen the carpenters' progress for over a week so I went around marvelling at the progress they had made. En-suite, walk-in-robe and the rafters though half the house. It was amazing what …
Kurilpa bridge? Nah, these posts are straight.
Nick and Roger are making great progress with the framing (left). Lovely straight posts adorn our slab and define where our straw bale walls will be. The Kurilpa bridge (right) is a pedestrian bridge in Brisbane that looks like a steel spider web with twigs in it. Interesting engineering!
It's …
Walls not straw bale
In the wet areas and as thermal mass, it was decided to use timbercrete: waste sawdust, cement and sand which is formed into blocks/bricks and air dried. The beauty of this product is that it can be nailed into and cut like wood, it is lighter weight than similar …
The only way is up!
We now have a slab with rods sticking our where the bales will go. Next week (from 9/11/09) we are going to start putting the frame up with the assistance of a local carpenter, Johan.
Timbercrete blocks (for wet areas and feature walls) have arrived and need a …
The Building Process Begins
We have got our plans approved and we have now started building.
We have found a great concreter and block layer (Mike Pascoe from Witta) that is doing the foundations work for us. Once Mike set out where the concrete pad will go we realised that the one retaining block …