image gallery - building the house
the house building project was undertaken from June 1991 to about April 1992 with some planning and early materials purchases in 1990, although in truth, the building of the house has never really stopped as we are always renewvating, modifying and adding to it.
The house is built with a steel frame and an exterior of wood-grained cement sheet which helps a lot in this bushfire-prine area. We did all of the work ourselves, except for the electrical wiring and essential plumbing. We built the house on weekends and in trhe evenings while both working full time and while David did his PhD. We love our steel-framed house.
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| May 1991. Vacant land with setout pegs to mark stump holes. Digging 36 holes 5 feet deep by hand through almost solid rock took about 4 months on weekends. | June - September 1991. The view when we looked up for a rest from digging. An excavation about 1 metre deep by 18 metres wide was also dug. |
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| Sept-Oct 1991: Clearing trees and sawing logs to be stored away for firewood later (Dave). | Nov 1991. Start putting in the floor system for the first (lowest) level. This level went into the mini excavation area. (Hua) |
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| Early Dec 1991. First level wall frames in. | Dec 1991. Second and third level floor systems in and most of the flooring (Hua). |
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| Dec 1991. View from the second level floor. No walls up yet. | Dec 1991. Second level walls and some third level walls in place. |
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| Dec 1991. View from below. (Hua) | Dec 1991. A stairwell but no stairs yet, just the ladder (Hua). |
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| Dec 1991. All wall frames in and many of the roof trusses in. | Dec 1991. View from inside (Dave and friend Tim) |
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| Jan 1992. Roof starting to appear (Hua) | Jan 1992. More of the roof on (really high up there) and some of the exterior cladding and windows in (Dave) |
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| Feb 1992. Internal R3 rockwool insulation going in. | Feb 1992. Hua adding glue before we screw the plasterboards in. |
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updated by David on Monday, June 30, 2008
image galleries
- 2008 family portraits
- our home - an introduction
- building the house
- building the driveway
- building the carport
- the stairs
- painting the house
- greywater and water tanks
- the music room project
- the deck project