Front Porch – small beginnings of the building project.

 

The old rotten porch

  Just before Sustainable House Day the old rotten porch was removed. I then had the month of October to strip and repaint the weatherboards, front door and bedroom window frames before Andy, the builder started on rebuilding a new porch.                           
 Now you might wonder why bother with the front porch. It looks [...]

Sustainable Living Expo – Hobart, November 2009

Lissa from Sustainable Living Tasmania, an organisation based in Hobart that promotes sustainability, invited us down to Hobart to give a talk and run a couple of workshops in recycled puppet making. The weekend was a great success with the Princes Wharf shed full of sustainable products, organisations and the general public drinking it all [...]

Overdue for a Manners meandering update !!

I have been slack!! Very slack!!  I have not updated the site for at least two months and before that only briefly. It certainly is not due to nothing happening. In fact it has been the opposite. Now the days are longer and we can spend more time working on the house. It is also [...]

Building permits received from Council

GOOD STUFF!
We have now got our building permit from Council and found a person to help build our extension. Andy is an alternative house builder who thinks like we do.
Andy will start with the porch out the front and then move onto the Dining room. I am now in the process of listing all the [...]

Where do you find the products and the information???

That is a good question. You could also add:

Are the products environmentally friendly?
How do I know they are environmentally friendly?
Can I source them locally?
Are they Australian made?
How many miles/kilometers do they haveto travel to get here?
Can they be recycled at the end of their life?
Does the company have a “Cradle to Grave” policy
Do I really [...]