This week on Building TV: How to create foundations
What was once a line on a drawing, becomes the shape of our house now. We had a very nice, but freezing cold sunny week…
Category: Building a house
Heavy rain + heavy trucks = ?
What we believed to be a solid and well created driveway turned out to be just a thin layer of gravel on top of mud.…
Digging for the foundations
While I’m planting plenty of Grevillea ground covers to turn our steep bank green with pink flowers, the builders excavate the foundations with precision. Reminds…
Walking tracks
We’ve got plenty of wood shavings almost for free, so we decided to use them for our walking tracks down to the gully and up…
Water storage for the thirsty
Four water tanks to collect rainwater through the roof of the house. Each of them 23,000 liters in size. Two of them can’t be used…
Digging a little pond
To preserve some water for the dry summer period, we created a little pond near the fruit tree orchard, down at our wonderful flat and…
Moving hills
Need more flat space for a future garage – and some material to build a nice turn for our driveway. So we dig…
A trench for the mains power cable
Undoubtedly an interesting machine this is. Like a monster chainsaw it crawls slowly through the sandy hill.
Veggie garden terraces
Our permaculture zone 2 area, just around the corner from the kitchen, on the wind protected hill side. Ideal slope for terraced vegetable garden beds.…
We’re moving! Again
This is our third move in only six months (not counting the holiday destinations). After we initially arrived in Brooklyn Motueka last October, we’ve got the…