Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 5Jan 15, 2015 10:28 am Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 7Jan 17, 2015 7:54 am Thanks for sharing, we are planning a custom design and the house designer also recommend an under ground rain tank to be place under the garage area. Where will your tank be placed? Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 8Jan 17, 2015 9:40 am Definitely interested in following this. Are you going to upload plans at some stage as I'm curious about what the end result will be - and that mix of the old fashioned with the modern twist. Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 9Jan 17, 2015 12:38 pm Think we were lucky bpratt and were able to avoid any large rock formations and put the tank where we wanted it. Although don't get me started on the cost of disposing of dirt properly Building4my3tots. The tank is actually under the house. I'll post up a photo if i have one. It has to collect all the rainwater from the building and then divert any overflow to a rain garden we are required to have. It made sense to put the two near each other at the lowest point of the property. The house itself is elevated off the ground on a suspended slab, allowing access underneath once it's built Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 10Jan 17, 2015 12:43 pm gandn Think we were lucky bpratt and were able to avoid any large rock formations and put the tank where we wanted it. Although don't get me started on the cost of disposing of dirt properly We're looking for fill to go around the back of the house and elsewhere, and it's almost impossible to find someone who wants to get rid of fill, without having to hire someone else to truck it in. Would have to be cheaper to truck it to somewhere local, than to take it somewhere to dump. But as I said I would've preferred to have put a tank under the house than one in front of the house, and although partially buried, it is still visible. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 11Jan 17, 2015 1:22 pm thebrolga Definitely interested in following this. Are you going to upload plans at some stage as I'm curious about what the end result will be - and that mix of the old fashioned with the modern twist. Hi thebrolga. Ill pop some elevations up so you can get a bit of an idea. These are just the basic ones without measurements etc, but it still gives an idea. Old and new comes into it with the design.The block slopes more than we would like, and not being huge fans of slabs on the ground or expensive retaining walls from cutting the block, we decided to elevate the house off the ground. This eliminated the need to cut the block and gave us access underneath the house. It's old fashioned in that we are using B & J's on a brick subfloor but interesting modern twist in that the B & J's are actually made to measure precast concrete not timber. It will then have a suspended concrete slab after this. I've found a few builds on the forum here using B & J's and suspended slabs but unable to find any with the Ultrafloor B & J's. Can't wait to see it it all coming together! Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 13Jan 17, 2015 1:43 pm How the Ultrafloor B & J's will work. Not our house, but stock website images. Advantages of using the Ultrafloor System in House construction are: Speed of construction (installed in less than a day) Less concrete (up to 45% reductions) Less reinforcement (up to 50% reductions) Minimal site waste (compared to conventional formwork) Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 14Jan 17, 2015 10:01 pm My husband met some of our new neighbours today. They were of the brown furry kind. Rats and mice! Eeekkk! Let's hope they move out before we move in! Although, I'll take them any day over snakes and spiders. Guess it takes a while for them all to find new homes in a new estate. Subfloor brickwork just about completed. Can't complain about our bricklayers. Waited about 7 weeks but they are doing a nice straight job and they're good blokes. It's not good working conditions going up and down the strip footings in this heat and to top it off we are using a heavy dry pressed brick. Lucky the brickie labourer (hubby) is a good worker. Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 17Jan 22, 2015 3:32 pm JB1 Is the ultrafloor on the ground floor or first floor? Nice house orientation, however my only concern is the number of west facing windows. Hi JB1, The Ultrafloor is for the ground floor. Should have some photos next week to add shortly of this. Its part of the build i'm most looking forward to seeing as it's so different. Re: the west side windows we've chosen to use a 6.38mm comfort plus glass in all the lower windows on the west side and a 6.38mm translucent glass on the upper windows west side. They are windows of formal rooms (unlikely to be used) and bathrooms. Fortunately/ unfortunately we also have a 2 storey on the west side of us that is likely to block the sun from some of these. Our current house has the most enormous windows that face west. It gets so hot you cant touch them. Time will tell how it all works out for us I guess! Re: Snapshot of our OB project...Subfloor 19Jan 22, 2015 4:35 pm So the subfloor brickwork for the house is finally completed. Garage isn't started yet as it is having its infill slab laid later on in the build. We went with a solid dry pressed mowbray blue brick, white sand and off white cement. Also used quite a number of pallets of commons in the areas below ground or where they won't be seen. At almost 4 times the price and twice as heavy, of the commons, I don't want to waste the Mowbray blue bricks. Bricklayers have done a marvelous job.
Onwards and upwards, as they say. In our case literally! And of course photos or it didn't happen! Back of block looking towards front Front looking towards back Front verandah Alfresco After we filled all the footings back in. Re: Snapshot of our OB project... 20Jan 22, 2015 4:42 pm I've only got one West facing windows in my current place near the staircase, and I think that's one too many! lol I had it tinted because was got so hot. I thought the photo's of the ultrafloor was your house! my bad! What's the reason to use ultrafloor compared to yellowtongue (and insulation underneath)? Insulation properties? I love houses on stumps, I'll never build on a slab again. Hi I live in a 100yr old semi and my neighbour added an additional floor last yr and our architect has advised that we can knock down our semi and build a free-standing… 0 37592 Hi all, We are looking to build a new two storey house in western Sydney. Can anyone recommend a smallish builder to go with? We are trying to stay away from the big… 0 12041 Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 7431 |