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Depends if it's feet or metres - sorry wrong threadQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Whatever it is good luck mate. :)
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Originally Posted by silentC
Bastard! i hope you only get 12 feet X 6 feet.
That'll do for the workspace, as long as you have some other sheds to store stuff in. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Yep. It's big enough to build your 6m boat but there'd be no room to store the others when you allow working space. It's a half reasonable start though. :DQuote:
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Richard
I was thinking of getting a shipping container or two for extra storage. I hear there's one full of clamps coming over in a month or two, think I'll arrange for that one to get washed off the ship and floated down here.
A container of clamps eh? Might almost be enough.
Richard
Dont forget to build the shed first - not really as silly as it sounds as you can store stuff there during the building.
Good luck nevertheless in whatever happens.
Cheers
Plan is to get the shed plans into the council a few weeks before settlement so we can start as soon as we own the block. We get the shed built and put a ruddy great corro water tank off it (another reason for wanting a big shed). Then we sit back and pray for rain.
Last time we moved, we said we were never going to move again. Now it looks like we'll be moving twice in 12 months. Oh well, never say never.
SilentC,
I doubt if your shed's roof will provide sufficient water to meet your family's needs. With your annual rainfall it should collect about 80 KL per year, roughly a quarter of our annual water consumption.
Rocker
If you want water, we have some in Melbourne after last night.
One inch deep in the shed :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Rocker, we will be required by council to install a 30,000 litre tank which will be supplied from the roof of the house when it is built. In the meantime, a nice big tank (about 7,000 litres) off the shed will give us some water for building and so on. We will also be installing a grey water treatment system to supply the toilet cisterns and water the gardens. We could build a dam at the bottom of the block but will probably wait until the kids are a bit older.
WB, we got a fair bit of it up here too. Fortunately most of the tourists have gone home, so we don't have to listen to them complaining about the weather any more :D
Accepted an offer prior to auction. Exchanged contracts this afternoon. Too late to turn back now. :eek: :D
nothing ventured nothing gained silent C
as I told my son when I came out here to live .. if we don't like it then we'll go somewhere else .. but if we don't go we'll always wonder if we would have liked it.
SilentC,
Congratulations; I am sure you won't regret it (so long as you clear enough trees, so that you won't be endangered by bushfires).
Rocker
Ditto to what Rocker said SC, sincerely wish for an exciting period in your life with all its challenges and that yours and your familie's expectations are fulfilled.
Cheers :)
So how many times have you drawn & redrawn the shed layout???? :D
Thanks all. Now the fun starts.
I haven't put pen to paper on the shed yet, SWMBO has been swamping my mind with house floor plans, but have to get serious about it now. There's a mob down here called Ranbuild that has a two story shed, kind of like an American barn style thing but the centre bit is much higher and there's a second floor in it. I'm going to get a price on one of those so I can have my office in the top and workshop in the bottom.
Not much timber on the block unfortunately. There's a bit of old growth stuff down in the gully, probably 20 or so mature trees - haven't identified them yet - plus a small stand of young stuff half way up the hill. Will try to leave it untouched and keep the house and shed well away from it.
Congratulations and boy you did it in a hurry. :)
So you are going to have a big shed yeah? Hmmm do you think Mrs SilentC would like the idea of an 18-holes indoor putt-putt? :rolleyes:
I'm going to see the shed man next week and put a few ideas through his computer. It'll be as big as I can make it, don't you worry about that ;)
The missus has already got her chip and putt course planned out. We have a half hectare of cleared land down the back which is going to be put aside for it. Can't have her hitting golf balls in the shed, she might ding one of my machines :D
I've only got one thing to say (apart from wishing you all the best of course);
MOWER
:D :D :D
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Slasher more like :eek: :DQuote:
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Of course I'll have to buy her a ride-on so she can maintain the greens :D
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:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Darren,
Here's some info for your missus :
http://www.ampacseed.com/pdfs/Backya...ting_Green.pdf
You may not want to show her this link though: :eek:
http://www.putting-greens.com/
This is the first time I've come accross this thread Silent, so I lived your experience over the last weeks, in a few minutes. WHew, what a journey. It was facinating - as I thought of things to respond, the next wouldl 'say it for me' Half of the things I would've said no longer matter, of course.
Congratulations anyway, it will be fabulous to have things exactly as you want.
I wish that I had the benefit of this BB when we sold our 'city house' in Auckland and moved over to Tasmania - agonising decision to make for me, anyway. SWMBO was moving home.
I note that you didn't take much notice of advice!:D Good to have the bounceback though.
We found a 0.7 acre bush block (well big enough for me) with a georgeous 9yr old home and everything done for us, (including a 12x8 shedhttp://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ons/icon12.gif)and close to the beach too. My comments would be:
Limit your lawn area - plant native bush and let it go back
Limit the amount of trees that need pruning
Dice any trees that can fall on the buildings
Educate the nippers about snakes/fire etc
Have fun!
Keep us updated, too.
I think you forgot one thing... What do your parents want to do. Or at least you haven't said here what the want to do. They gave the house to you with conditions attached. Yanking up their roots may be very upsetting.
If it were me, I'd honor my parents and let them make the choice for themselves. I'd probably ask in a round about way if they'd like a change of scenery and then go form there.
Ahem - read those last couple of pages carefully - you'll find the horse has bolted.
Yes, the deal is done. Currently talking to the new owner about renting from them until our new house is built.
MathewA, thanks for your concern for the oldies. Don't worry, it was their decision all the way. I put the idea to them (with a couple of sweetners, such as a new caravan, a new house, room for a veggie garden) and let them decide. It was their choice whether or not to accept the offer that was made. The new property belongs to them, not us, and technically the money is theirs to spend.
I think my Mum is a bit sad (they're actually in Perth at the moment so only spoken on the phone) but neither of my parents are 'material' and they can see the advantages of doing this. I told them that if they wanted to they could take the money and go on holidays for the rest of their lives. Plenty of people do it. They'd be back within a month because they'd miss the grandkids.
Thanks for the links Craig, the wife's old man was a greenkeeper and it's going to be his job to build it, so I'll pass them on to him. Just as long as it doesn't encroach on my shed space :D
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:D
The house is not built yet? :eek: and you want to race me. Hahahahaha.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
You dont have a chance mate. Keep waiting and you would know how I feel in the past 12 months.
Hahahaha.
Ahh, but the shed will be standing well before we turn the first sod on the house. It will be the very first thing to be built and it will start the day after settlement. My challenge stands!!
:D
You guys make me sick!! :eek: :eek: I've been fitting out the shed for two years and I haven't a hope of winning that race!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
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You do realise that we'll require a photograpic record of the construction progress and fitout of the said shed(s). A la Bob Smalser. :D
I suggest a seperate thread.