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We bought our land on the Atherton Tablelands 6 years ago while living in Townsville. We moved up 4 years ago, bout the kit 2 years ago and things are only just happening now.
We have 20ac that are northfacing.
We currently have the external frame up, trusses, verandah posts. Will add photos when I work out how to reduce them small enough.
IndexPg1 Intro, plans and lots of picciesPg 2 Shagging, kids and birth storiesPg 3 Engineering dramas, more frame pics, teenage rantingPg 4 Parenting lows...and highsPg 5 Engineers, tilers and no sleepPg 6 A feast for pic piggiesPg 7 Maori princesses and mad scientistsPg 8 Purring Puddy tat and stuffed up drainsPg 9 Sliced thumbs and broken legsPg 10 Essay on my experience with KitomePg 11 Rocky Horror (photos removed) and domesticityPg 12 Whinging...lots of whingingPg 13 No knickers Pg 14 Epic update and noobish bankersPg 15 Kitchen and Bathroom bits and bobsPg 16 fabulous H1 support and encouragement...finished plaster
Ok TRIED to upload photos, but didn't work.
progress, congrats
Does this post help?
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28598&start=0Hope you work it out, would love to see some photos.
To post pics I use
www.tinypic.com. Just upload and copy and paste the link. Anyway waiting for the pics..... project sounds exciting
thanks for the tip re photos..I was using flickr but no links..so just signed up with tiny and have done a house plan on the forum and also an avatar!! whoaoao, thanks
look at your laundry..it is like a 5th bedroom! nice house plan...it is going to look very FABBBO on your land.
Ok, so here we go. first image is the house plan modified to suit us. Thanks dadandsue for uploading the original.
Then the progress:
This footing took 4 cement trucks to fill it. Enough concrete for a 3br house.
The wall 47m long 1.2m high
108 holes (actually 107, they missed one with the bobcat and the builder's underlings had to dig by hand)
We are further along than this but the rest of the photos are still on the camera. Fingers crossed these photos work...
wow. It looks like it is going to be great. Thanks for sharing.
Are you doing solar power as well?
Looks gorgeous. We loved Kitome designs - almost chose one ourselves but were too afraid to go down the OB route.
Looking good Raleighfarm, any plans to do something with the space under the house? Looks like plenty of storage
wow. It looks like it is going to be great. Thanks for sharing.
Are you doing solar power as well?
Yes planning a big (fingers crossed) grid-connect system.
Looking good Raleighfarm, any plans to do something with the space under the house? Looks like plenty of storage
I can stand under it (needless to say...I am not very tall). But I was thinking it would be good for the dogs. DH would like to concrete at least part of it. Good place for the kids to play, until they are taller than me that is.
Looks gorgeous. We loved Kitome designs - almost chose one ourselves but were too afraid to go down the OB route.
Can I make a point that Kitome's BEFORE sales service is great...and leave it at that. They were the only ones that had the design we liked, could not even get a building company to do something close to what we liked. Which is why I am now OB...Yay me.
Well bonus for me, just found out both the two major local hardware and trade stores will give me a trade account with trade prices. This is going to help heaps.
Bugger driving down the range for over an hour just to see if Bunnings will give me a discount with my trade card there.
Already have lists in with quotes being done. This might mean we can afford the taps I really want. Now to find someone to supply the tessellated tiles I am after without charging me an extra $10/m2 for freight.
Hi Raleighfarm,
Great pics very jelouse we are doing the same over here in W.A. I have footings but no steel floor yet still waiting, who supplied your steel floor? we have 114 posts with 23 cubic metres in footings alone and biulding kit home supplied by PAAL in Sydney, anyway any more pics.
Hi Raleighfarm,
Great pics very jelouse we are doing the same over here in W.A. I have footings but no steel floor yet still waiting, who supplied your steel floor? we have 114 posts with 23 cubic metres in footings alone and biulding kit home supplied by PAAL in Sydney, anyway any more pics.
Had Kitome do a floor system for us too. But have had issues. The whole thing was supposed to be cyclone rated but no builder would touch the footings and posts because they were bolted to concrete piers. WE had to have it re-engineered to have posts going down into concrete and then had to buy more steel. The floor itself was quite good to put together, builder was happy with it. Not sure what PAAL is like, have never heard anything bad, but advice would be to try and find a local engineer to design and local steel place to supply. That's if you want a steel floor too. You can have timber but we wanted all steel as termites are a huge issue here.
Will try and get my butt into gear and put more photos up tonight. Do you have any photos yet Barkers? Have you started your own thread?
Hi Raleighfarm,
Just started new thread will post some pics soon when I find them.
Hah, gotta love that Tablelands red dirt! Great to see the start of your project; can't wait to see it as it progresses. Do you have an approximate date for finishing?
What a pretty area
I'll be watching with interest
Hah, gotta love that Tablelands red dirt! Great to see the start of your project; can't wait to see it as it progresses. Do you have an approximate date for finishing?
Am hoping before Christmas. Really depends on how much time I have to do stuff and availability of tradesmen. Finding tradesmen willing to even bother to quote in a timely manner has been challenging which is why we had trouble getting our loan (a year and still no loan) in the first place (until we switched banks and got a line of credit straight away).
ATM I am managing to feed children and get washing done and that's it, the building is taking up a lot of time around baby routines, and I am not actually doing the physical labour. Have spent a lot of today chasing up the replacement of damaged timber in the kit (damaged from sitting for so long) and talking to the builder about missing items and ones that won't do a good enough job. Head is spinning trying to work out which fixtures and final layouts before the plumber and electrician come in a couple of weeks for rough-in work.
Bathroom tiles: probably not going to get the tessellated (octagon and dot) tiles now because the dot is a wishy-washy pink burgundy not a red...maybe going for plain burgundy floor. Found some nice decorative tiles online that fit with the style of the house (but its going to cost$2500 just for the border plus freight from Melbourne, then the floor and wall tiles):
DH is busy building new pool fence in current house and doing a great job but has to go back to work tomorrow night
What a pretty area
I'll be watching with interest
It is a beautiful area, my photos don't do it justice. Will see if I can find dome photos that do. Just ask Rae!
Ok update on tiles. Slight change because these ones are on sale for $1.70 ea instead of $9.54. BARGAIN.
I need about 125 so this will save me about $1000. They need to be freighted from Melb to Far Nth Qld. The lengths we will go for the right look!