Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Living in a Shed During Construction? 10Apr 25, 2009 10:05 pm 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Living in a Shed During Construction? 15Apr 27, 2009 7:28 am Nice shed, MP, not sure if you mentioned to build the shed yourself somewhere, but if not I would like to advice you to keep a close eye on the building process. Our shed is a Fair Dinkum four bay with 4 roller doors and build by a local shed builder. He does Triton and Fair Dinkum. A good builder overall I would say but he left us which huge gaps between the wall of the shed and the top of the doors . I am talking about a gap of at least 100mm. Light shines through it at night, mossies have free entry and in the evening we can feel the cold air coming in. When we asked him why he had done it this way he replied that this was the Australian way of building a shed. So please be aware in case you have to live in the shed for a longer time. cheers Re: Living in a Shed During Construction? 18May 11, 2009 8:15 am We're doing this, and we've got 2 small kids, so it is do-able. The only thing that drives me crazy is not having a lot of room, but the kids are outside a lot and most of our furniture is in storage, we only have the basics. I keep thinking how fantastic our new home is going to feel once we have moved in! We are living here during two builds (one for investment) so the money we will save on rent/mortgage interest payment if we hadn't of sold our own house is huge We converted a brick shed which already had 'rooms' separated as it was originally stables. I would recommend making it as nice as possible, we have lino and carpet, and I know this makes it seem more like a real home. We don't mind not having a real oven, we have one like you would have in a caravan and it's great, plus we also have camp ovens regularly, and that is great fun (we are on 8 acres). It has been quite good so far (5 months), I would definitely recommend it. Re: Living in a Shed During Construction? 19May 11, 2009 8:34 am C&D We're doing this, and we've got 2 small kids, so it is do-able. The only thing that drives me crazy is not having a lot of room, but the kids are outside a lot and most of our furniture is in storage, we only have the basics. I keep thinking how fantastic our new home is going to feel once we have moved in! We are living here during two builds (one for investment) so the money we will save on rent/mortgage interest payment if we hadn't of sold our own house is huge We converted a brick shed which already had 'rooms' separated as it was originally stables. I would recommend making it as nice as possible, we have lino and carpet, and I know this makes it seem more like a real home. We don't mind not having a real oven, we have one like you would have in a caravan and it's great, plus we also have camp ovens regularly, and that is great fun (we are on 8 acres). It has been quite good so far (5 months), I would definitely recommend it. I'm envious C&D sound like holidays I had when I was a kid and it makes me think of good times past! 1 62110 i would suggest nothing is unreasonable for PCI. we did all sorts, including checking the hot water, checking all the GPO's had power, testing that the showers were… 9 98818 Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 81902 |