Clearing the backlog

Home alone and ready to add a few more pix. I'll let them do the talking...

 

 

life in the bush - if it aint snowing it's burning!

Been only a few minutes this time...

I've forced myself to have a day off the tools today. It has been 70-80 hours of slog per week for as long as I can remember. So, while the muscles relax a bit, the mouse fingers are twitching. Here's a few more pics.

Enjoy

precision joinery

one by one...

...until we have a big stack to sand, oil and fit

all window frames trimmed and ready for the next coat of render

the taping off to keep the lime off the timber

messy but fun

east wall coat #2

Dana cleaning up the Sth bed wall

We work in all climes

I made a forest with forest products

awwww...

custom hangers for sliding doors

doors fitted

And then we finally got glass

it's shiny!

and pretty

but, most of all, it keeps the elements out

Because all this white stuff turned up 2 days later

More when I find spare time && feel like it...

::Been a while??

Had a few folks asking about the blog. Well, building has taken precedence. Life has been hella busy too. We are still at it but very nearly done. It's been quite some journey but now is not the time to go into detail. Here's a few random pix from the last year or two.

window frames in

endless amounts of beads to process

one cannot have enough clamps

floor to ceilling carpet

first render in the bedroom

Doug showing me how to make doors

the first of many

and the first of the 21 opening windows...

...made by laminating 2 strips of 30x60 Spotted Gum

ya really canna have enough clamps!

It's all a lot further advanced than what you see here but I have a digital mountain of images to trawl through. I'm gunna try and drip feed some more pix over the next few days.

Blogging bludger but busy builder

It's been a bit quiet on the blog-front at bogiebushbuild. We been a bit busy building the ol' house, ya know. Also been pretty busy building community links. Busy looking after the land. Busy looking after animals. Busy bringing in the bucks. Busy resting and sleeping when not at the above. Busy bees bashing building blocks...arrrgh, enough bollocky b.b.bullshit.

sitting well in the landscape

Since last bbbroadcast we've:

...milled the big old bastard gum that had been lying around curing for 18 months...

"Hey Ben - leave your brother alone and pick up the tree instead"

Neale works his mill magic

kitchen bench - here we come

window seats to be

...completed the tank(s) installation...

30,000L of aqua

...installed the stand alone solar power system...

sub board

batteries

installing the electricity bill avoiders

...constructed and installed the solar hot water service...

this was NOT fun

...but we got there in the end

courtesy of Josh the plumber

200L of HOT aqua

...rendered the outside (first coat)...

render station

render recipe

god hates fangs :)

NW wall

SW wall

...and again

...cabled for 240V (GPOs) and for 24V (lighting)......

NOT spaghetti

I like neat wiring

flood goes here

...rendered the inside (first coat)...

bogger wall

...rendered...

lounge rendered (1st coat)

...and looking slick

we'll have floor to ceiling carpet thanks

...built and installed window frames (which took FOREVER)...

sexy timber

in situ

fine joinery anyone?

...acquired a few (funny to play with but useless at lawn mowing) alapacas...

these camels think that they are sheep

...acquired a gorgeous Kelpie pup...

Polly and Dana deep in conversation

...and lived a bloody good life...

ahhhhh, paradise.

Now, another festivus is upon us and we're taking a few days off the tools so I'm sharing some looooong overdue words and pix. In a day or two, we'll be back at it. Our dear council have imposed an 'end-of-May' deadline to finish off the house. Funds, sanity and health prevailing, we will get close to Cert of Occupancy by then. Maybe I'll share some more updates some day before then...:)