hi all i intend on updating this regularly about our ob experience.we brought a house in bush with the intent to renovate make enough to move on and build without the banks all cash.it was only meant to take 12 mths ha ha now 3 1/2 years on we have finally sold.we brought our land with water,power and sewerage for $7500.00 very cheap but we are living in the mallee and 100km from swanhill and 134km from bendigo so tradies are few and far between so we will pay more for them. i got a book from the csiro "building your own home"by george wilke.if anyone is interested in the book go to http://www.csiropublishing.com.au first look at it and i went omg how am i going to do this. ok ill just flick through and read the parts i want.ha ha not going to happen ok 1st page do it right lucky because page 1 the introduction told me to make sure im not in a fire zone and if the council have any restrictions on what materials you can use.
i spoke with my building inspector he is one of the nicest people extremely helpful he is 85yrs old and still working 3 days a week for our shire i asked him about soil tests and surveyors and he said not to bother with that as long as i do stump holes to 1meter and 1.5 x 1.4 bearers and joists his happy with that.
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