Check out the progress of "The Ponderosa" - our rammed limestone 2 story house on 10 acres of bush at Northcliffe, in the South West of Western Australia.
STAGE V - interior
Thanks to Chris Lawrence
for doing the tiling in our bathroom,
Reedie for his continuing plumbing expertise and his high standard of
work,
and thanks also Gavin (JD) Walker for doing the laundry and some great
evening jam sessions.
We now have a toilet that flushes, a hot spa anytime we want it, and a shower
... on ya Reedie !!!
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STAGE IV - The house is finally
to lock up!
Special thanks to Manjimup
Glass, Julio and the crew did a great job with the windows.
We'd also like to thank Reedie
from JPReed Plumbing & Gas for doing the plumbing. He's done a top
job.
Also thanks to Tony from Mal
Armstrong's crew, Abe Shields and Roy Winderbank for their help too.
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STAGE III - the roof is on ...
We'd like to thank Pete Blaszeka again for doing the footings,
Mal Armstrong for
carting the timber flitches and poles,
Mick Fonty for his crane and many thanks to Terry Martin at RTS Southwest
for
supplying all the framing structure and roof, and sorting out all the
engineering..
Thanks also to Glen Murphy for the epic scaffolding supply and erection.
A very special thank you from Danielle and myself to Gavin Reynolds and his
team, Luke and Reese ...
for putting up the massive bushpoles, all the wallframes, that HUGE structural
beam , and the roof.
Gavin's cheerful "can-do" attitude made it a very positive and relatively
painless process !!
We are extremely pleased with the result.
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STAGE II
Here are some pics from last
summer, showing how the rammed earth is done.
Many thanks to Rocky for providing morale boosting entertainment and some nice
shells (and 50 cents !)
Also thanks to Rory and Ben for labouring, and special thanks to
Mark Atkinson (Acko)
for doing such a beautiful job !!
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STAGE I
In The Beginning ... we cleared the site, did
the sand pad and Pete Blaszeka did our slab. (Thanks Pete)
Thanks to Les Brown and his little dozer, Mark with his tractor, and
Roy Moss
with his backhoe for clearing the site.
Thanks also to Mal Armstrong for doing the pad. To gather sustinence for the big
job ahead, we went fishing Northcliffe style ...
Acko took us out diving and we got a few jumbo crays, I speared a 60 lb. Bluey,
then Abe and myself went to Malimup Beach
and bagged a few salmon. It was all fun and games, the really hard work was yet
to come ...
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