How to Demolish your House

There’s more to demolishing than meets the eye…
Before you demolish
Have a good think about what is really going to happen to your house.
It will probably be totally destroyed with nothing to show for x years of contented (?) hassle-free(?) living. Is there anything you can do to lessen the blow to yourselves and the environment and [...]

Trying not to Demolish - the Sustainable Factor

Demolishing is pretty final and it’s a big shame to demolish a house that could be someone’s home.
Upon deciding to build we also decided to try to give our beach shack away. If anybody wanted it…
We put an ad in the Quokka online.
Weatherboard house going free if you take it away
We had about 8 emails [...]

Asbestos or Adventure

 Five years went by and we started to look to the future. Hardly even knowing it we had been chewing on the idea of a build for some time. The asbestos content in the shack was partly responsible. We would need to extend and renovate dramatically if the shack were to hold us in the future, [...]

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