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We are the owners of a 1.4 hectare block of land on the Central Coast.

The site includes areas of rainforest which have been badly overrun by non-native plants. Our project is to restore the rainforest and to build an environmentally sustainable house on the site.

This blog records the bush regeneration work we are undertaking and the progress on building the house.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Photos from week starting 14th March

Progress on the roof on the east side of the house has been really good and in addition the last areas of brickwork have now been finished.

All the main roof beams that support the ridge and valley lines on the east side are installed

The fascia board is installed so that we can now see the profile of the roof

View along the roof overhang along the east side

Detail of how the roof beams and fascia boards intersect

Intersection of the roof beams along the west side of the profiled roof

Timber has been attached into the steel beams over lounge so that the roof joists can be attached to them

Detail of how the ridge beam is bolted to the supporting steel column

The brick column outside the garage has been completed

The chimney breast has also been completed

Internal brickwork in the lounge

Now that the brickwork for the reverse brick veneer wall has been completed we can see the view from the study

Insulation has been installed in the reverse brick veneer walls along the east facade

Insulation in the timber frame above the east facade sliding door opening

Looking at the house from the west side of the site.  We can now really see the low profile that the house will have

The mains power cable has now been installed from the new poles (but not yet connected as there is an issue with getting approval from Energy Australia - it seems that there is a problem with permissions that should have obtained before the existing line was installed)

View from the roof level into the rainforest in the north gully

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