Monday 26 June 2017

Retrofitting continued..

We are now making some good progress with the back part of our old house. The kitchen and study area have had cladding put on. This area is going to become a bathroom and laundry. The links to our other retrofitting posts are https://hempcretehome.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/retrofitting-original-house-with-hemp and https://hempcretehome.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/retrofitting-internal-walls-and-ceiling

I feel like our renovation is suffering from the 80:20 rule. 80% complete and it takes 20% of the time, 20% to go takes 80% of the time.

The left side is the laundry and the right side is the bathroom

The laundry and bathroom with the windows in and cladding on.


This is where we are going to build a bicycle shed. The wrought iron gates that can be seen were
bought second hand from Ebay,, a good way to reduce the need for buying something new.
Looking towards the back of the house. The back yard really needs an enormous amount of work.

This is looking into what used to be our dining room, it will become our study/guest room/
second living area
The same image but now hemp insulated and cladded (almost.
Another retrofit post showed the hemp.