Demolition Doubts Dissolved

Several weeks ago I would have left the title of this post as ‘Demolition Doubts…’ because for a moment there it seemed that our house would never get demolished. Fortunately now things are moving (the asbestos cladding is being removed). It’s a good lesson on how things can tend not to go according to plan. [...]

A Concrete Reminder

Well it was a fairly mad time in Perth but it felt good to get stuff done and meet more of the people that will be responsible for the build. Nor did it take long to reacquaint myself with Osborne Park and its amazing compliment of absolutelynecessaryshopstovisitifyouarebuildingahouse. I mean really…what isn’t there? Within a camel’s [...]

4/30 L’Ile aux Goelands / 5/30 Demolition Update

L’ile Aux Goelands
 
No excuses, I’m behind schedule. But hey - if you had the choice between being the first to set foot on a local picture-perfect island just re-opening after being closed for 4 months for birds to nest, OR take up the opportunity (on a boiling hot humid day that is yelling loudly in [...]

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 [...]

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