Sorry its been so long since my last blog but I have been waiting for this moment!

We have council consent! Yay! Sorry about the rubbish pic, I took it of the screen! 



It was really quick too and thumbs up to Alice from Rubix Architecture who clearly had all our ducks in a row and all the boxes ticked!

So now its all go and for all self builders out there trying to organize their build, I deffinately get how much is involved in doing this now as everyday I have  a list of jobs, decissions or calls to make and then theres the tradies asking me questions....I feel like I am on the Block TV show. Hahaha! 

I am married to the builder and even though we have built before, I am new to this project management side of things, not to mention being on the huge learning curve on energy effiecient high performance build. Thank goodness I am so passionate about building this energy efficient home, its my passion that will drive me through this and hopefully sharing this journey will help others realize that if you are thinking of building then high performance or energy efficient home is in reach and well worth doing.

We pegged out the sand pad area last week and the dig out will start 2nd week in July. Very keen to record and share.

Now, if there is anyone out there that knows of a good but not too expensive constuction camera that is waterproof and works so I can see the site and do time lapse live feed type thing, I would love to here from you and please comment below.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Its a wrap!

Image
We opted to use FPS, Frame Protection Systems to wrap the house, we chose this system as its watertight and breathable.  Frame Protection System, FPS® Weathertight®™ system is a comprehensive roof and wall underlay system for timber and steel frame, panel and prefab building elements, providing both interim and permanent weather protection plus moisture control within the wall or roof structure. FPS® Weathertight™ is certified to allow internal work to proceed to completion before the roof and wall cladding are installed. You can purchase the products from ITM and possible other similar companies. We dealt directly with FPS as we want to make the house airtight and they were really keen to give us the training needed so we apply the products correctly. (I believe FPS is Passive House certified.) FPS is  weathertight and UV guaranteed for 3 months. So we have to have the house clad within the 3 month window but at least it is weathertight to work on! This pic below, the roof is...
Read more
Image
 Yay we have gone to council with our house plans ...finally!! It will be worth the wait as the design stage of a high performance home is really important to get right but we are finally in council! But lets talk windows today... Exciting stuff, I am hoping to catch up with our window supplier (Fabian) and our energy efficiency consultant (Claudia Kaltenstadler) this week as they are both up from the South Island. So seen as Fabian is up this week seems like a good idea to go over why we picked his windows. I knew  we had to get thermally brocken windows but I had to do a fair bit of research to look into what that meant and in laymen's terms... thermally brocken window frames are insulated aginst cold and heat conduction. This is done by seperating the outside metal parts from the inside with a product/ material which reduces the amount of cold or heat transfered through the frames. This is know as the  " thermal break" . We also wanted to have really good airtight wind...
Read more
Image
 Good morning to my wee group of blog followers...  I don't think I have gone into why we chose MAXRaft for our foundation... I chose it because as far as I am aware it is the only fully insulated thermally brocken slab design available in NZ. It has a super high R value (4 to 4.5 R value) and it will save us shed loads in heating bills. It is not the cheapest way to do your concrete floor slab but for the extra cost (aprox 10% more) in my view its a no brainer. I did not want heat escaping out of my floor in my warm healthy energy efficient home so it was an obviouse choice. The way I look at it... compare it to yourself in winter, would you wear warm thermals and a jacket then go out in bare feet or jandals, no no no well I would not, I would be putting my wooley socks and boots on, so why would you insulate and watertight your walls and roof and not fully insulate your floor!  The pic below is a drone shot (thanks Gary) of the site with the freshly delivered MAXRaft in...
Read more