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self-containered: October 2015
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Monday, 12 October 2015. Spring has arrived with a vengeance with temperatures last week rivalling those of mid summer. So with a growing veggy garden and a water supply more than 50 metres away (the dam) I needed to make watering the garden a little easier. So I bought an IBC 1000L water tank:. A petrol powered water pump:. And 70 metres of poly pipe:. And made myself a gravity fed water storage container at the head of the garden:. All that is left to do now is buy an adapter to connect a garden hose.
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self-containered: September 2016
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Monday, 19 September 2016. The glacial moving of this build continues due to a mixture of factors including teaching, long distance relationship visits, engineering holdups (yup still happening) and bad weather. And these are not the only reasons. But I have made a start on the internal framing - firstly by installing the waling plates. These are the top rails that the ceiling joists are attached to. Quite a challenge. But like most repetitive tasks - it became easier the more I did. As my engineers desi...
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self-containered: January 2016
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Thursday, 14 January 2016. Piers, pump and pumpkin. Two months since my last post and little to show for it! Procrastination, nervousness about starting the verandah and roof, returning to casual teaching, bad weather, Christmas and New Year, visits to Paul's place, chest cold - all these have led to little construction on the house. Minor welding, grinding and cutting jobs are about all I have managed to get done indoors. Outdoors I have been a little busier. At the moment the 2" hose from the pump has ...
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self-containered: December 2016
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Thursday, 29 December 2016. The house has an eye. Since the previous post in September (a particularly wet month) most weekdays, when not away visiting my partner, have been spent teaching. Not that I necessarily wanted to do that much work, but with a 6 week summer break with no income I took pretty much all the casual work they offered. Unfortunately the roof is still sitting on the ground. But in the meantime I have put up the verandah beams (which forms part of the roof) and created the back deck:.
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self-containered: below: deck
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Monday, 16 May 2016. Things continue to move along slowly. My annual trip to Queensland plus getting quite a lot of casual teaching has been the main cause of this slowness - there always seems to be excuses! While up north friends there have been busy constructing a small container home for themselves. They used 2 x 20' containers with around a 5m or so space between them which they enclosed. They used refrigeration containers which come with their own insulated walls. Finally I added the noggins which ...
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self-containered: spring slowly forward
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Monday, 19 September 2016. The glacial moving of this build continues due to a mixture of factors including teaching, long distance relationship visits, engineering holdups (yup still happening) and bad weather. And these are not the only reasons. But I have made a start on the internal framing - firstly by installing the waling plates. These are the top rails that the ceiling joists are attached to. Quite a challenge. But like most repetitive tasks - it became easier the more I did. As my engineers desi...
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self-containered: August 2015
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015. What's not to love? Turning briefly to the fauna aspect of my land and building saga, I recently joined up to WomSAT. A new resource for communities to record sightings of wombats across the country and became a 'Wombat Warrior'! Wombats are facing a crisis which threatens their numbers and existence. Namely -. There is a treatment available which can reverse the effects. I have 4 wombat holes on my property but I am still as yet uncertain as to which ones are still active....
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self-containered: February 2016
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Sunday, 14 February 2016. Swims, supports and salad stuff. Had a lovely day on the land yesterday. Jana came up from Sydney for the weekend and we spent the day at my house site doing very little except enjoying the weather and tranquility. It was warm (33deg) so we took the opportunity to have along and leisurely swim in the dam. I'm really appreciating having the jetty there now as getting in (running jump! And out was much easier - no more muddy feet. Jana also helped out watering the veggies:. I am t...
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self-containered: the house has an eye
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Thursday, 29 December 2016. The house has an eye. Since the previous post in September (a particularly wet month) most weekdays, when not away visiting my partner, have been spent teaching. Not that I necessarily wanted to do that much work, but with a 6 week summer break with no income I took pretty much all the casual work they offered. Unfortunately the roof is still sitting on the ground. But in the meantime I have put up the verandah beams (which forms part of the roof) and created the back deck:.
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