The HOUSE WE BUILT!

Mum and me, building our house from the ground up…

The tank-stand shower.

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While Mum’s phone was dead we got on and concreted the base of the tank-stand for our outdoor-shower, it was all new to me, I have not done anything with cement before but I liked mixing it up, I put three shovel-fulls of sand in the barrow, three of chip (Mum calls it aggregate) and one of cement.

Then I spent ages stirring it and adding water bit by bit, till finally it was all mixed and fluffy, then I tipped it in for Mum to poke around and make into the shower floor.

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Our outdoor shower floor!

We added the drainage and put a grate over the plug hole so the soap can’t get down the drain. We had looked everywhere for a cool grate for our shower but they were all really expensive or hideous so eventually we got some cast-iron pot trivets and used them, I think they look cool!

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Our “shower grate”.

Then we built the “splash-catcher” for our outside tap, this is for washing feet or getting water in a bucket or whatever, I think it’s pretty neat too. :)

 

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The outside tap “sink”.

Now we just need to build the walls and do the plumbing…it will probably be a while till we get back to this though because we have other jobs to do like setting up for the solar panels and installing them.

Inside….cont

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Here are a couple of pictures of our kit-set kitchen cupboards, after we varnished them….now all we need is for it to rain again so we can put the drawers together. :)

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Me sanding the cupboards

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Shiny!

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Finished!

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