kit home

Here's me working on the house. I drive up to Toodyay every week and work, eat, work, work, work and sleep. And work. It's taken three months to get to here, working three days a week. I have now finished the floor and tomorrow will do the decking timber.It's called platform construction: first the floor and floor coverings then the walls and roof. So all that should be done tomorrow or soon. Then it's waiting for the rest of the house to be delivered in October. Hopefully I might get the roof on before summer and 40 degrees arrives. Eventually it'll be a three bedroom house with 50 square meters of deck at bird level in the forest, 130000 liter water tank and compost toilet.
 I'm loving the experience and its going to be a pretty, strong house. Really well insulated against hot Toodyay summers and it'll look great. The problem is it's really expensive, unnecessarily complex and quite toxic. Floor coverings, adhesive and insulation contain formaldehyde, steel conducts heat necessitating full on insulation which is plastic, and you need a whole bucket of completely different skills from foundation placing to plaster boarding. It's no different from any other contemporary housing in terms of expense, complexity and toxicity but I think I can do better with earth construction, and that's what I will be looking at for my ultimate unplugging experience in the future. Much cheaper, like a twentieth if the cost, non toxic, sturdy and beautiful. But one thing at a time, for now it's the steel kit. Bonza!