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Welcome to our blog, affordable rentals
and this post, Australia affordable houses
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Australia affordable house
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Australia affordable house
Dear readers, today
we are going back to post just a simple post about housing, because we would
like to insure that this blog is not forgotten, so I am going to write about
the work that I did when I came to Australia, and in particular we are going to
talk about the old housing industry in Australia, when I was working on these
affordable house, so let me start telling you.
In Australia as
well as in other part of the world not all the houses are the same, because
houses come in a variety of styles and sizes, of course we all would like to
live in the best houses available, but most of us would not be able to afford
large expansive houses, therefore, we have to be happy to live in any house
that we can afford to buy or rent.
For this simple
reason of affordability, in order to satisfy the house market so to speak,
there are several types of house that are being built at any given time. Here I
am not going to mention the many type of houses that could be built, because we
are only saying this to point out to you what we are going to say next about
building affordable houses, in order to point out the sorts of houses that I
ended up working on, or to fix or build in the early sixties.
In the early
sixties I ended up working on average houses that the working class could
afford to buy, or at least the aim of the builders that were building these
houses was based in this affordability, since they had designed them with this
purpose in mind, because in the end even though they had been built cheap not
all of us would be able to afford to buy them. But anyhow this was the purpose
of building these types of cheap houses in the early sixties.
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Building houses from scratch
My story of
building affordable houses from scratch
Let me say this,
one of the reasons why I have started writing all these articles about building
houses is because, I would like to tell you the story of my life and what I did
when I came to Australia; but at the same time I would like to say something
useful to my readers, and I believe that knowing how the houses are built might
be useful for my readers as well, since knowing a few things about building
houses comes handy at times; you see, we all live in houses and therefore we
would like to know as much as we can about them.
Now what I might be
telling you here is the story of my life and how I worked in the building
industry, but while I am doing that I am going to make an effort to describe
how these building things were and are done with as many details as I can, so
that anyone interested in houses might be able to learn something useful from
these building articles.
Now has I have
explained already in our last article, I was working in the building industry
with this Italian builder, with this builder not only we were re-stumping or building
rooms under the existing houses, but we would also build new houses from
scratch. As I have already said at the beginning of the sixties most of the
digging were still done by hand, especially the type of work that we were doing
on these new houses, as machines then were used mostly if there was a lot of
digging to be done and with the machines of those days one can only dig
straight forward things and not small detailed digging as they were required to
do for these type of houses, anyhow as I said, I did a lot of this digging work
as I was employed as builder labour.
Therefore, now let
us imagine that I have finished digging these stump holes and some foundation
for this new house, as I have explained in our previous article, and now, we
need to concrete the foundation and also to concrete stumps. So let us go over
what we had to do, because in those times these things were started from
scratch, yes form scratch and by this we mean that we did just about everything
ourselves by hand.
I believe that this
post is already long enough, so we are going to talk about how to make
concrete, in our next post, so, see you soon.
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Affordable Rentals
Australia affordable house
Affordable Rentals
Australia affordable house
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, mixing your own concrete
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