The group has been quite busy with life in general over the last few weeks, so getting the blog posts up haven't been highest on the list of priorities. Unfortunately its taken almost a month to put up one of the more important posts. Build Day 01!
With Build Day 02 quickly approaching, its important for us to show how much we have done so far. With the design 80% locked in when we began the day (16th April) we headed to Bunnings to pick up a few items we would require to begin the build.
PHOTO DIARY:
Before any shopping could begin Joel introduced Shakiba, Leah and Bao to their first ever Bunnings Sausage Sizzle. YUM!!
Leaving Dan to scout ahead and find some of the timber we needed for the frame.
After about 30minutes we'd picked up the required timber, nails and other items we were short on and headed to Dan's house.
Some quick discussion of who would shovel and who would hold bags we started filling up our earthbags with sand and a rock/dirt combination. Leah & Joel filling some rock/dirt bags.
Dan & Bao filling up some of the sand earthbags.
After filling up a bunch of full and half full earthbags we put them aside and started looking at our wood framing.
Dan, cutting to size some of the studs.
Frame starting to take shape with studs and top and bottom plate cut to size.
Frame pieces all cut to size and placed together, just needs some nails now.
Bao & Shakiba tapping away with the hammer.
And the finished frame.
So after Build Day 01, we have all of our earthbags filled, and our main frame created. Build Day 02 we will focus on putting the earthbags into a wall supported by the timber frame behind.
Video: Video's of this Build Day will be posted in a separate post shortly.
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