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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, November 5, 2011

Photos from week starting 31st October

This week there has not been such a huge amount of progress, compared to the last couple of weeks, as the work has focused on finishing off jobs.  Two exciting steps forward are that the mirrors were fitted in the bathrooms and the fly screens were fitted on the opening windows.  They both look great, however I don't have any photos yet as the floor was being coated with its second coat of Tung oil on Saturday morning so we couldn't go in the house (and we won't be able to until Tuesday).

This is looking through the study window across the still wet Tung oil

The balustrade wires and handrail have been fitted around the courtyard

Completed balustrade along the east terrace 

Balustrade around the north terrace

The water pump and cartridge filter have been installed

The manifold pipe that connects the rainwater tanks to the pump

The valve between the tank and the manifold.
The hole in the slab is to enable the tank overflow pipe to be installed under the slab

Our 'space ship' light has been re-installed at the correct height

The island bench light has also been installed at the correct height

The triple downlight unit has been installed in the lounge

The lights have been fitted on steps from the car park to the east terrace

The light has been installed on the column outside the garage (I am really looking forward to seeing this working)

The downpipe has been installed from the louvre span unit

Matt wasn't happy with the joints between the blue boards on the south facade and has resealed them

The washing line posts have been installed on the terrace next to the vegetable beds

The rework of the landing at the top of the courtyard steps is nearly finished

View of the east facade.
The only thing missing now are the three roof downpipes (they should be fitted next week)

View from the north east.  It looks fantastic

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