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Category Archives: technical matters
What in hell is a BAL (assessment)?
With parts of Victoria and NSW currently in flames and parts of Queensland under water it can only be summer time in Australia. The fire season sadly always finds people poorly prepared to face the significant dangers created by a … Continue reading
The old 100mm trick
I had a plumber who used to say A Man who has never made a mistake has never made anything. I like this sort of home spun wisdom, in those few simple words there is so much to learn. You … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, technical matters
Tagged 100mm trick, Builders, building construction, housing, Metric, metrification
Delusions of Grandeur
I am a big fan of Architectural folly, those needless ornamentations and decorations that make buildings truly memorable. The English have a great tradition of adding false turrets to make buildings look more imposing and Italianate architecture, like Como House … Continue reading
Weeks 12 and 13 of the #170 day House
We are documenting each day on the construction of an architectural home. This is the work from weeks 12 and 13 Aluminium windows are being fitted into the timber frame before bricklaying is done. The commercial aluminium frames are are … Continue reading
Posted in 170 day house, By Marcus, technical matters
Tagged #170dayHouse, architecture, brickwork, builder, house building, lock up, residential, Stonemason
Week 10 and 11 of the 170 day house
This is what we were working on during the tenth and eleventh weeks of our construction of an architectural home. Following completion of the roof frame our plumber measured all of his box gutters and roof sheets. The roofing will take … Continue reading
Posted in 170 day house, By Marcus, technical matters
Tagged #170dayHouse, box gutters, building construction, framing, house building, residential, roof iron, skylights
Made in Australia
A builder in the US recently calculated he could create 220,000 jobs simply by buying materials Made in America. The former economist was not mucking about, (the) “Made in America House” is constructed entirely from U.S.-made products, from duct tape … Continue reading
Getting used to units
Learning all those millimetre and centimetre parts of a system like metric, looks daunting at the outset but we have all learned that it is really child’s play. Getting your head around the numbers is just a question of experience, … Continue reading
Posted in By Marcus, technical matters
Tagged Builders, building construction, cent-, kilo-, measurement, Metric, milli-
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#170dayHouse day91 waterproofing continues, order placed for fixing material , wall tiles delivery arranged.
Posted in 170 day house, 170dayHouse Tweets, By Marcus, technical matters
Tagged #170dayHouse, building construction
