Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 7Jun 14, 2014 10:02 pm Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65085 Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 9Jun 15, 2014 1:01 am 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 10Jun 15, 2014 5:42 am Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65085 Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 11Jun 15, 2014 7:22 am Love the idea of reuse and your design. We originally looked at buying 25-100 acres at Bungonia, loved the area, in the end we decided the commune to work was to far and we bought closer to mittagong/bowral. Look forward to seeing your build come together. Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 12Jun 15, 2014 10:30 am Thanks for the link SaveH2O - someone mentioned that to me - I will check it out. Bigblock7 - I've been following your thread and look forward to seeing developments. I would gladly have bought closer to Sydney - the area you are in is beautiful - but it was way out of my budget. For what my 25 acres cost me I could only have bought 500sq.m in Bundanoon for example; and 930 sq.m in Bowral costs 3 and a half times what I paid for my land. While searching for affordable land - there seemed to be a dramatic drop off in prices once you pass Bundanoon and Canyonleigh. For $173,500 I was very happy to settle for Bungonia!! I received a modest amount from my partners estate which has paid for the land and should just last me until I finish the house build (which was another point in favour of doing the work myself.) I hopefully will end up with no mortgage at the end of it. Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 13Jun 15, 2014 1:37 pm The Southern Highlands area is beautiful and your block looks to be idyllic. I've been through Bungonia a few times when we were doing some kayaking trips down the Shoalhaven river. Like the others I look forward to your build. I saw the episode that SaveH2O is talking about and it was interesting. While the outside of that house looked good I thought that some of the rooms felt very restricted as you would with the width of a container. Stewie Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 14Jun 16, 2014 11:13 am Stewie - I've been told by a few people that they've been to Bungonia Gorge and that it is a popular place for caving. It is only a few kms from my land but I haven't been to explore the area yet. I'm of the same opinion about the claustrophobic nature of single containers. That's why I decided three side by side and opened up would create a large open space. The only container sized spaces are the guest bedroom (they're guests so they get what they're given!!) and the bathroom. Disliking taking baths, the bathroom could afford to be modest in size without a bath in it. As it is - it will still be 8 sqm, whereas the perfectly adequate bathroom in my current rental 2 b/r flat is only 3.45 sqm. By comparison I can do a lot of cat swinging! Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 15Jun 16, 2014 1:18 pm waxinggibbous Thanks for the link SaveH2O - someone mentioned that to me - I will check it out. Bigblock7 - I've been following your thread and look forward to seeing developments. I would gladly have bought closer to Sydney - the area you are in is beautiful - but it was way out of my budget. For what my 25 acres cost me I could only have bought 500sq.m in Bundanoon for example; and 930 sq.m in Bowral costs 3 and a half times what I paid for my land. While searching for affordable land - there seemed to be a dramatic drop off in prices once you pass Bundanoon and Canyonleigh. For $173,500 I was very happy to settle for Bungonia!! I received a modest amount from my partners estate which has paid for the land and should just last me until I finish the house build (which was another point in favour of doing the work myself.) I hopefully will end up with no mortgage at the end of it. It is remarkable the difference in prices in those areas. We just loved Bungonia, and everyone we met was so lovely - we spend every weekend down there for months. If my husband wasn't driving to Sydney everyday for work, it would have been perfect. We've had to make a massive sacrifice on land size and what we can build and put on the land, but I guess there has to be compromises. We really wanted to build either a straw bale home or a tyre house down there, and try and be as self sufficient as possible! One day perhaps Very exciting, especially doing the design yourself. Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 16Jun 23, 2014 1:10 pm Looks fantastic! You are very lucky to get such a big beautiful block so close to Sydney, too cold for me though! It's great that you are planting natives and restoring the environment, I could have gone down that path but all that work and waiting till the place looked great sounded too hard, and I just wanted to buy a block that was already covered in trees! It's great that you've gotten council approval for what is an unusual build. I was wondering if there would be an advantage in having a gap of a few metres or more between the containers - which could be roofed or completely enclosed - so that you aren't having the walls of the containers doubled up next to each other? Or is there an advantage to having them together eg. insulation, strength? I know someone who was planning to build 3 in a U shape and having the internal area like a courtyard, which sounded nice... Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 17Jun 23, 2014 7:08 pm Hi Keffufal - I have seen some container builds which have done just as you said - putting space between containers.
Here's a great one in Costa Rica: http://www.homedsgn.com/2011/06/16/containers-of-hope-a-40000-home-by-benjamin-garcia-saxe/ I can't say whether one is better than the other - but my reasoning for three side by side was simply that I thought it would be easier for me so I didn't have to build the floor, roof and one end wall in the space! As for walls being doubled up - they are coming out anyway so it means just removing 2 extra walls. Here's what it will look something like (from http://www.8747house.blogspot.com ) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 18Jun 25, 2014 1:16 pm Typical - had to pick the day of wildest weather all year for the delivery of my foundation tube forms.
Winds with gusts up to 84kmh and rain verging on horizontal and the DINGBAT who delivered the tubes failed to call me when leaving Sydney per arrangements (so I had time to get out to site) and just left them outside next to my containers. First thing I see driving up to my front gate is a 4 metre metal tube more than 200 metres down the hill! They must weigh around 40kgs and it was a struggle on my own to drag it back up the hill and get it inside one of the containers in the wind. The other 11 weren't a lot easier either! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Damaged tube - hopefully I can still use most of it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 19Jun 25, 2014 11:01 pm Oh how frustrating! Can't imagine trying to move that in the wind we've been having. Drove a bit down the hume today and was being pushed all over the road Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Tondelver House - Southern Highlands 20Jun 26, 2014 3:57 pm What a fantastic idea for a build - can't wait to see more <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=62083">viewtopic.php?t=62083</a><!-- l --> 1 10581 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 19299 hi guys. Please be nice. First time home builder in Qld. I would like some feedback please on whether I should build my granny flat first before my main house at the… 0 5034 |