Gabe
8th February 2016, 01:59 PM
Hi all,
Me and my wife are planning on starting an owner builder project in the next 18months. I'm not a builder by trade, in fact I don't have a trade, but I enjoy solving problems. I am a firm believer that one can achieve whatever they put their minds to, so long as they proceed with caution and find the right advice along the way. This is where the lovely people on this forum come in. We have a design, I'm sure it will change as we go, but its going to be two story house with a skillion roof , and we both really want large chunky exposed roof beams. I'm thinking there may be a mix of steel and timber framed walls in order to hold the weight of large timber beams (possibly jarrah) something I'm not sure about at all. So basically at stage, we are keeping an eye out for toughened and/or laminated glass, old doors, and large timber beams, slowly stock piling materials. I am honing my wood working skills on smaller projects in order prepare my self for the tough road ahead. My old man was a carpenter and I watched him build two houses as I was growing up, I'm hoping its in the blood!
Gabe
Me and my wife are planning on starting an owner builder project in the next 18months. I'm not a builder by trade, in fact I don't have a trade, but I enjoy solving problems. I am a firm believer that one can achieve whatever they put their minds to, so long as they proceed with caution and find the right advice along the way. This is where the lovely people on this forum come in. We have a design, I'm sure it will change as we go, but its going to be two story house with a skillion roof , and we both really want large chunky exposed roof beams. I'm thinking there may be a mix of steel and timber framed walls in order to hold the weight of large timber beams (possibly jarrah) something I'm not sure about at all. So basically at stage, we are keeping an eye out for toughened and/or laminated glass, old doors, and large timber beams, slowly stock piling materials. I am honing my wood working skills on smaller projects in order prepare my self for the tough road ahead. My old man was a carpenter and I watched him build two houses as I was growing up, I'm hoping its in the blood!
Gabe