Peter and Natasha

1. Dylan's not a baby anymore!
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...th owner builds) but hopefully that will change and things will speed up. Well done on your work on the blog, and continueing to share. We hope to do a blog too. I'll send you a link if we ever get ar...

2. Decking
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...use the house. It will be interesting to see just how much the front door gets used. Fantastic having blogs to read again and photos to see!...

3. Well done Tarshy.
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Your blogs are charming Sweetheart. We all look forward to them. Keep up the good work. Long may you reign at the high plains ranchero. Dad.

4. great to meet you
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Hello, so great to meet you at SHD and glad you got something out of it... I love your summary on your blog, fantastic to hear from your perspective... keep us updated on your adventure and let us kno

5. Thanks!
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...ttle write up of our visit so I could refer to all your good ideas in the future - [url=http://oh-my-la.blogspot.com/2010/09/sustainable-house-day-part-2-peter.html]http://oh-my-la.blogspot.com/2010/0...

6. Action Stations
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I get so excited when I see a new blog. It is great that you are moving into the next phase - the completion phase. It too will be very satisfying once you get going on it. Wish we were there to he

7. thank you
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Hi Richard, thank you for all your comments and support! great to know who is reading our blogs....we look forward to giving you a grand tour of the house when you come to visit some time in the futur

8. Great work Pete
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...na in the finishing up of your fab home.... I look forward to coming out on the build soon.... keep the blogs coming, even if they are only short punchy ditties - i love being involved along the way.....

9. getting plastered
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...ished house!! The bale on the floor in front of the plaster adds to the incongruous charm too. Keep the blog posts coming, the more detail the better, and the photos are appreciated too - can't get en...

10. brief comments
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..., great work Tarsh & Nicole! I LOVE seeing the progress online every day, yours has become my favourite blog by far. The roof is going to be amazing, the line of the roof gives the house beautiful ...

11. rafters and beams
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...Now I know the difference between beams and rafters. I really have learnt so much from reading your blog. Makes me think we could manage some basic renovations - pretty pathetic to think we couldn...

12. february progress amazing
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Its now March, can you believe it? Loved reading the blogs and watching the amazing progress via photos.

13. Briefs
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Even brief blogs are greatly appreciated over on this cooler side of the Tasman. Keep up the good work and happy building.

14. great progress
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Wow, you guys are going great guns. Love the photos nearly as much as the blogging itself. The timber posts are beautiful, a lovely addition, are they in the living room/dining room? You're enthusias

15. vegie sausage stumps
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...in the morning I suggested it was better than an internal examination...is that too inappropriate for a blog comment?...

16. Thank you!
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...we love getting comments and words of support! So great to know our nearest and dearest are reading the blogs. xxx...

17. Hot water at last
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I can hardly beleive it! We could write 10 blogs alone on the trials and tribulations of trying to get our solar hot water system working properly. Today is a cause for some serious celebration - th

18. When you're hot, you're HOT!
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...e the shower, bath and basin will go, and we are on to the next stage. However, to update from previous blogs, our hot water is not fixed. In fact, it's worse. This is no reflection on the efforts of ...

19. In hot water, or not
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As I write this we have plumbers up on the roof connecting our wetback to our hot water service and - more importantly - attempting to fix our ongoing hot water issue. OK, so the hot water i

20. New Life
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Well I shouldn't have jinxed myself by saying that the last blog was the longest in between blogs ever, because now it's even longer! Two months in fact! Before you convince yourself of our utter inco

21. The longest time
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Yep, you guessed it, this must be the longest gap between blogs ever! Our apologies. It's been very apparent to me, how much more there is to do, and how little we have been doing on the house of late

22. Sunshine on my shoulders
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We are really starting to appreciate just how great it is to have that glorious winter sunshine coming through our north-facing windows. It has been very cold, and very windy, and today's sunshine was

23. Moving along
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Well things have been moving... particularly our house with the gale force winds we have been having. Although it's nothing new for us, it's always fascinating to actually 'feel' the house move like i

24. It's all relative
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This building caper has had many silver linings - not the least of which has been the wonderful people we had met along the way. Ari was one of the first people we met. Ari now has a fabulous partne

25. Building Community
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... Cath yesterday who are just hitting the accelerator with their strawbale house build. They also have a blog and a very cool website (see link below). They also brought a very delicious walnut, banana...

26. The Hilux
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27. Nice Dream
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@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }@font-face { font-family: "Times"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal .MsoChpDefault div.WordSection1 I remember the feeling we had coming back from outi

28. New Loo
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It's officlal - we now have two loos. Now when our guests come and stay they don't have to come down to the other end of the house in the middle of the night to our ensuite to use the toilet. Peter

29. Brewing
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No, sorry it's not beer, we are brewing ideas! For a while now we have thinking about putting together some resources for others who are curious, considering or in the midst of owner-building a house,

30. First Steps
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Well things are moving! Dylan has begun to make some little steps, and Peter has finished making his first set of steps, wooohooo! The north (back) steps we had built by a local tradesperson way back

31. From the land of more door
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We've been buying second hand doors again on eBay. Six of them in fact. A great Monday evening hike yielded great results as the ute and I, armed only with directions all across Melbourne, and an iPho

32. Deck done
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Finally a payoff for all the "more important" building tasks! I built the south deck!  It took me about four days to complete but I've been looking forward to it for ages so it hardly s

33. Performance
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...her. if you have some info either from another source or from your place, please either comment on this blog (you need to be registered) or email us on peterandnatasha@gmail.com. But back to th...

34. Ticking things off
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It feels soooo good to have made some progress on the house over the last few weeks! We have been ticking things off our list, feeling very happy indeed. We have now finished all the renderin

35. Environmental motor racing?
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...has any contacts, ideas, a spare corporate seat or abuse regarding this plea then drop a comment on the blog straight away or email me (peterandnatasha@gmail.com).  My gratefulness will depend on...

36. Twos
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This blog's theme is twos.   With our focus on working for the majority of the time recently, we've spent little time maintaining our block of land. As a result it's become a bit of a jungle. The

37. Off the wagon
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Well it would seem we have fallen off the wagon of late. No blogs and no new photos, but thankfully there has been some action on the building front, phew! Peter has been getting our recycled decking

38. Carried Away
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This must be the longest 'in between blogs' time on record.... I think in part because we don't have much to report on! We've both been working part-time, and Sundays have started to become our only d

39. Past the two-year mark
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Time is a funny thing. In some ways it seems not long ago that we first set out on our house-building quest, full of enthusiasm and blind faith. In other ways it seems like a great deal of time has pa

40. One room to go
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We've been rendering again. It may seem like a never-ending task to some but we just do a day here and a day there. Most of our days are now taken up with work or looking after Dylan so we build when

41. Website and progress
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...e have recently renewed our web hosting and domain name to keep this website up and running and keep us blogging. As the bill came up I couldn't help thinking that we had a decent number of people che...

42. Front and south
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I always confuse myself when talking about our front door. We've been using the door on the north side of the house for all of our access but technically it's the back door. The door on the south side

43. All weather access
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We started building in October 2008 and since that time we've been subject to the vagaries of the weather when trying to get on to the land by vehicle. At times this has meant taking on a little rally

44. Pantry order at last
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Since I went and pulled out 3 shelving items from a demolition house courtesy of our good friend Ray, they've been getting in the way on our deck, waiting to either be destroyed by a drenching norther

45. Heaters and Cupboards
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Well it's been a busy few weeks, and now it's all coming together! I have just pulled myself away from the amazingly warm and snazzy slow combustion wood heater which we had installed today. Oh my goo

46. New opportunities
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We were very fortunate to have some rendering assistance this weekend, as well as some great weather, and we are very pleased to have the north external wall now fully rendered. It looks fantastic. We

47. Chipping away
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On cold days there is a lot of temptation to do odds and ends inside but we still need to attend to weather tight issues outside. So I've been rendering the east wall, continuing what was mostly finis

48. A holiday
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Being a Kiwi there's only so long I can stay away from the country I grew up in and it was way past time for Dylan to meet all of his family on my side. So we've spent a wonderful 11 days away from th

49. Winter is here
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It's funny how my memory has conveniently forgotten just how cold it gets out here in winter.  Brrrrr! We are thanking our lucky stars that we are not spending another very cold, very windy winte

50. Render window trampoline mushroom
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...ndering, a new window, flying trampolines and houses popping up like mushrooms. All this since the last blog.  First of all, we decided to have a look at the forsaken room, otherwise known as the...