Up!
I admit it, I love the third dimension. It’s awesome to see the walls coming up so quickly. These guys are amazingly quick and to my…
Category: A new life in NZ (2014-now)
The concrete slab
Time to pour some concrete! By noon, everything was done. :)
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…
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…
Planting fruit trees – one at a time
Autumn/winter is the best time to plant fruit trees, people say. No droughts as in the summer time ensure best growth and maybe even a…
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…
The first of many to come!
I never thought I could be that excited about an egg.