Wednesday May 01 2019 Storage Having large-scale storage on the block wasn’t a necessity – until Mum sold the family home. She then needed somewhere to stash all of the furniture and her wordly belongings, acquired over 40 years while living in the same house. Location Location The original planning permit included a garage that…
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Wednesday January 24, Wednesday February 7, Monday February 12 Rage Against The Machine We had been waiting for ages for Greg’s fancy electronic spindle-moulder to be fixed – something was wrong with the motherboard that nobody in Australia seemed to know how to fix. After many false starts and nine months later I found out…
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Friday February 2, Saturday February 3, Wednesday February 7 Third time lucky 60k House was always intended to be somewhat experimental, a testing ground for ideas, trying things that I haven’t seen or done before. Being my own house I had the freedom to trial different materials and techniques – without complaints from a client…
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Wednesday September 20 2017 Update It’s been a while since the last post on the blog. I’ve been busy – among other thing, finishing the house! Photos, final budget and more blog posts coming soon! I also wanted to wait until I had an electricity bill for a full quarter since the installation of rooftop…
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Tuesday June 6; Tuesday June 13 The Best Laid Plans The original idea for heating 60k House was to install a small wood heater. Actually, the initial plan was to see how effective the passive thermal design was before deciding if I even needed any additional heating. I wasn’t around for winter last year –…
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Saturday April 30 2016; Monday May 2 2016; Saturday May 7 / Sunday May 8 2016; Thursday January 26 2017 More floor The act of building the decks didn’t take that long – finishing them, and then writing about it, has taken ages. There are two decks at 60k House: the bathroom deck (nicknamed ‘the…
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Saturday November 12; Tuesday January 3; Wednesday February 8 Under the Milky Way I moved into 60k House last Easter, right after walking the Overland Track. We spent six nights in the Tassie wilderness, trying to get a wash each day. The thought of showering outside at home, even in cold weather, didn’t faze me.…
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Tuesday January 26; Friday April 15; Wednesday April 20; Monday April 25; Sunday May 15 Early days The bathroom has been a long time in the making – we had a working toilet by November 2015 but only recently has the rest of the room been nearly completed (still a few little things to finish…
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Tuesday December 22, 2015; Monday May 2, 2016; Friday May 13, 2016; Monday January 2, 2017 Keeping it simple 60k House has a total of six doors: three internal and three external. That’s not a lot of doors, so it pays to get them right. We didn’t get them right the first time. Being resourceful…
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Wednesday September 30 2015, Tuesday November 10 2015, Friday May 13 2016, Monday November 21 2016 An eternity Windows – eek. They have been the bane of this project. What started out as a design generator – four double glazed units, roughly the same width as an apple crate, picked up for free – has…
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