Material blue gum poles 3*2 timber 5*6 timber 10 sheets marine boards 6*1 timber 75kgs 3″ nails 300 metal trappers In week 7 the contractor started preparing for the slab- to be done in week 8 they started by placing the 3*2 poles on the shortest side of the room.[…]

This week the contractor finalized on the masonry work in the foundation. Depending on the height prescribed in the drawing, the foundation had about 4 courses in the higher sides and up to 7 courses in the lowest land levels. Backfilling The backfilling also took place this week.  The contractor returned[…]

Materials Ballast Cement sand stone Hardcore Quarry dust Metal bars for the beams and columns 6*1 wood to form frames for the beams The structural engineer this week made his first site visit to confirm the contractors had reached stable ground where they could construct the foundation of the house. The[…]

Items required this week Hose pipe Fork jembes – provided by the contractor Spades – Provided by the contractor Plumb line (Kabiru) Materials  D10 D8 D12 Binding wire This week the contractor started digging the foundation trenches. The land is on a slope of about 2.7m and this week we[…]

Construction Preparation This happened as we waited for the approval of the architectural and the structural plans with the county government.   To save on time we did some land preparation. The land had quite a lot of trees which unfortunately were cut down to pave way for construction. The tree stumps[…]

The readers had some questions for Mrs W and she was happy to answer them. What is a cantilever/Double volume A Cantilever is a slab that appears to be floating.  it doesn’t have visible beams/ columns supporting it and it is also not attached to any side of the wall. […]

Last week we looked at the process of acquiring the plot. Click here to read about it. Today we will see how the decision to build a house was arrived at. The objective of this series is to educate you our readers about the process of home acquisition.   Who[…]

One of the loyal readers, Let’s call her “Mrs W”, on this blog reached out to me with a very interesting request. She would like me to cover the story about buying their land and building their home. I asked her to answer a few questions to bring us up-to[…]