This is the second place we have built.....well, got someone to build for us. It was designed and constructed by Dale Alcock Homes, and we would recommend them to anyone. We mucked around with the design a bit to make it a little more unique than it may have been, and the builder was more than helpful...probably cos every little change put the price up. :)
These are just a few pics of the house as it was being built, and after, as we levelled out the block, put in a shed, a garden, a lawn, and reticulation....tho the retic is being repaired after getting the treatment from our "ex-puppy". Beware if you own 'Blueys', and you are planning on installing reticulation!! Blue Heelers loooooove poly-pipe!!
To start out, have a look at the plan of our place, it was a standard floorplan from the DA range but we mucked around with it and made a few changes that would make it very different from any others of the same design in both plan and elevation.
All the measurements are metric....so if you remember a metre is a little over a three feet, and a foot is about 300mm, then you will probably be close :)
There are a few piks of the house as it went up, but they havent been scanned yet, so this lil spot is reserved for them...WHEN they get done :)
We moved a hell of alot of dirt as we started to organise "Weezels" back yard. First, we scooped a million barrow loads of dirt from under the tree cos it was good growing dirt,and would have been buried and wasted. When we were done, we were left with a hole that looked like it might have other possibilities.
We hired a guy with a bobcat, (a mini-dozer), to level out the yard, and he made the hole a little bit bigger. We talked about it, and decided that with a low wall, it could become a feature in that corner under the tree. It required a few
railway sleepers, (rail ties for our North American netters:), to be manhandled....
Next step was to put in the retic. A local supplier took a plan of our yard which laidout lawn areas, garden beds and stuff, and designed a system to suit. He then sold us all the gear we needed to do it ourselves.
It cost us about $700 for all the pipelines, valves, automatic timer, jets and everything needed to put it all together.
If we had gotten someone in to install it, would cost about $1200, so for a weekends work, I earned myself $500, tax free :) Got to admit tho,
it was interesting. Watch a video, then get out there and build it!
The very best part was when I finished, and I hit the test button, and watched as each section, there are 4 in our system, came on as advertised. Nothing broke, nothing 'didn't' work, nothing was out of sequence. It was great :)))
About the same time, a guy put electricity into our shed. This required a trench to be dug from the house to the shed, enter the best lil trench digger in the West.
This is a new page...under construction....and I have to go back to work...sooo... I'll be right back :)
Midnite in the Garden of Good and Gooder ;)