Australia affordable houses

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Australia affordable house
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This is one of those affordable house that were being built in the sixties. They were good house, even though they were built as cheap as they could be built, for reason of affordability.







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

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, mixing your own concrete 

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For lease office and warehouse

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An opportunity exists to lease this office and ware house in Salisbury

For lease office and warehouse
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Asking $35,000 need to talk to the owner, 07-3397 9614 or mob 0417 176 194, email; mazmench@hotmail.com  

90 sm office and 200 sm warehouse

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For lease office and warehouse
this is an opportunity to rent this office warehouse straight from the owner, which could help to keep the price down, at least part of the agent fee could be split and benefit both the owner ant the lease. this post needs to be edited and as soon as we have time.

For rent Coorparoo best value

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Available now

For rent Coorparoo best value

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Front of flats as seen from the road










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Right hand side of flats; the flat for rent is on the first flight of stairs.
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Carport and laundry in common.










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For rent Coorparoo best value

Coorparoo, 2-bedroom flat for rent reduced to $280.00 PW  

Location; flat 2- 28 Hipwood Avenue Coorparoo Brisbane

Open for inspection, Saturday between 9.30 AM to 1o.30 AM

Initial cost, 2 weeks rent + bond

Minimum 3 months’ lease

Qualified tenants have to sign a minimum 3 months Rental Agreement

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Open for inspection, Saturdays between 9.30 AM to 10.30 AM

To inspect at any other time, call Frank Tel. 3397 9614

Or visit our site any time you want at; 28- Hipwood Avenue Coorparoo and if you like what you see, then you can call Frank to make an appointment, Tel. No: 3397 9614;

Or you can email us: menfranco@gmail.com

This is our blog; http://affordablerentals.blogspot.com/

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Earning and saving money

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Earning and saving money

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This is just a typical set of profiles. Profiles are erected on the construction sites, in order to give the building workers, the right size and the position of the various elements of whatever is being built, one can extend this to even give the levels required and other things.
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This is a typical small house floor plan, of course this is only one simple floor plan, but there are several plans even to build a house, starting from a foundation plan and specifications.

Earning and saving money

Dear readers, these days in this blog we seem to be jumping from one thing to another, we place ads for renting accommodations and building them and other things as well. So, I have asked myself this question, everything we do we need money; therefore, whatever you do in life you need money, perhaps the most important thing to learn in life is how to earn money and how to save money; you see for instance, if you don’t want to pay rent you have to buy your own place, that is the only way open to you; for this reason, let us talk about earning and saving money

I believe that not everybody is able to work out how to do that, so they might need just a bit of help to understand how the others do it. In my case it was easy to learn, because I and many other people like myself, because there was uncertainty of not having a permanent job in the building industry, one soon learn that whatever money you earn from your job you have to save some, otherwise you could have problems soon or later; so, this disadvantage that we had in this job pushed most of us building workers to become good at saving money, because we wanted to feel safe and independent.

Now let me just talk about money, since I have mentioned it just now. In Australia because the economy is based on capitalism the more money you are able to earn and save the better off you are, of course this is also true to most other part of the world, but in Australia seems to be more so, because it is a new country, and people rely more on what they are able to earn than in anywhere else in the world. This is because there are not many existing reach families that live on the earnings of the properties that have been passed down from generation to generations, so almost everybody here has made their own way up if they have any money. Therefore, in Australia is mostly up to yourself if you want to get better you have to try harder and also work harder, you see most people here are self-made so most of the people have earned their own way. Once you know that, this question comes to your mind and you ask yourself, if other people can do it, I am sure that I can do it too?

By knowing what we have just said above, one can understand that in Australia, not only you have to try to earn money, but it is very important that you save it too, and at the same time you have to try to improve your working position, so that you can be more independent and not rely completely on others; this would help if it happens that you lose your temporary job and also by saving money you can start one day to buy your own house, or open you own business, which are the most important things that people should do, if they want to live a good life. I know now that most of you are saying that these are hard things to do, but you see, they can be done because I have done it myself.

Anyhow I believe that I have said enough about this money business for the time being, so let me go back to tell you about what I did with this job in the building industry and became a tradesman, and also how I ended up buying our house. But first let me tell you how and what we did and my progress in this building job, so that one can compare what was available then and what opportunities are available now, while I was working with this Italian small builder.

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Working for this builder

Working and learning with this small Italian builder

Dear readers, in these writing while I am telling you the story about myself working in the Australian building industry, I am also going to try to give you details of how building things were done in dose days; therefore, if you are one of those people that have in mind to do your own building renovations one day, you can somehow guess what you can find, in those building that we built then, because you already know how we built them.

Now let me go back to when I started work with this Italian builder, who was a bricklayer and concreter, we were working on houses and because there was not enough bricklaying work on these houses, as they were mostly built with timber, we were building only the foundations, the concrete stumps and some brickwork as the base of the house. Of course we did also some jobs under the existing houses and this has given me an opportunity to learn many things about those old houses in Brisbane.

Just for comparison sake, so that you can see the difference between those times and today, let me describe to you what we did to prepare a new base for a new timber house, which would be setting on concrete stumps and some brick walls.

First of all, we went to set up the site, if it was not already set up from the builder or carpenter that would build the timber house. This setting up required that we should fix some timber frame to the ground with pegs and according to the measurement in the plan, then mark them accurately, so that we had the right measurement to go by, in order to start digging the foundations for the stumps and brick walls and also for building the whole house.

Then we had to dig the foundations and this was mostly my job as I was the labour and I was pretty good at digging when I was young and strong, this may seem hard to believe but even digging one has to be an expert to do a good job, as the shape and depth of the foundations is important to do a job properly. Just to show you what I mean to dig a hole for a new concrete stump, 20x20 centimetres as most stumps were supposed to be; the hole for this stump should be in exactly the right place, it should be sixty centimetres deep in natural ground and at the bottom should have a circumference with a diameter of at least 40 centimetres or more. These were the average specifications then, unless it was stated otherwise. I know this because I have dug several hundreds of them if not thousands.

All the tools that I needed to do this job were a pick a post hole shovel and a crowbar, it usually would take me a couple of days to dig the entire house holes, which could usually be between twenty and thirty holes. You see I was able to dig a hole in less than half an hour, but it was hard work. Sometimes when there was some brickwork to do we had also to dig these foundations by hand; the foundations were usually dug according to specification, which usually would be 60-centimetre-deep in the natural ground, this means that if the grounds had been filled up that filling should not be counted as depth, of course this was the same as the holes we dug for the concrete stumps.

Anyhow, before I finish writing this article I want to say that those houses that we were helping to build in the sixties with this builder contractor that I was working for were average affordable house that the average family could afford to buy, and therefore they were sold easily.

Now, I believe that I have said enough in this post and although there could be a lot more that could be said, that part we are going to tell you in our next post, which is going to be about how we made those concrete stumps on site and other stuff, while we were working on these affordable houses.

See you soon.

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Earning and saving money 

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Next time with, these affordable houses

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Coorparoo unit for rent

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AVAILABLE NOW

Coorparoo unit for rent

Coorparoo, 2 bedroom flat for rent available from 25 January 2016  

Clean 2 bedrooms flat for rent, reduced to $280 P.W. to rent quickly 

Location; flat 3- 28 Hipwood Avenue Coorparoo Brisbane

For inspection call Frank Tel. 3397 9614

Open for inspection, Saturdays between 9.30 AM to 10.30 AM

Or visit our site any time you want at; 28- Hipwood Avenue Coorparoo and if you like what you see, then you can call Frank to make an appointment, Tel. No: 3397 9614;

Or you can email us at, hipwoodac@gmail.com, or at, menfranco@gmail.com  
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Coorparoo unit for rent

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The two bedroom flat for rent is the second door up the first flight of stairs. 



The kitchen with gas stove and cupboards above; and also the other side of the kitchen showing you the other entrance door and a fridge. 





-Built in wardrobe in the main bedroom, showing you also entrance door and door to the bathroom and also a duchess and mirror in the main bedroom. 


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Under the building there is a car port for this unit and also the laundry in common as seen in this photo. 
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Some views from the entry of the unit, this photo was taken when the trees were in flower. 



UNIT COST This unit is renting at $300 PW; Initial cost to rent the unit is; 2 weeks rent + 4 weeks bond. 

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Anybody that is looking for accommodation is welcome; Hope to see you soon, my phone Number is; 3397 9614

Building work in Australia

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Building work in Australia
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This is a typical timber workers cottage. A worker's cottage is a smaller version of the large Queens-lander; they were built smaller so that a worker could afford to buy it.

This is a brick base being built. on a narrow block of land, again here the builders were trying to make it cheap, so that people could afford them.

In Australia a lot of houses are built with a timber frame, so people coming in from Europe, like myself in the sixties, we though this is strange; so we were asking ourselves why they don't build in masonry.  

Building work in Australia

Dear readers, with this post we are going back to write some of our own old articles. In these articles we have said that we would write some posts about DIY brickwork and other building things, well this article here explains how I started to work in the building industry, and later on as a bricklayer tradesman.   

So, let me start from the beginning; when I came to Australia in the sixties I ended up working in the building industry, because those were the jobs that were available to do then; we were mainly working on fixing old houses, or building new house from scratch and also units and warehouses, so I ended up learning how lots of building things were done, in the end I specialized in becoming a bricklayer, and have worked most of my life as a bricklayer.  

Now, let us talk about what we are going to write in this article; the Australian housing industry in the sixties, we will also be talking about, working in the Australian housing and building industry; Earning and saving money if you can; and Working with this Italian builder.

The Australian housing and building industry was and is one of the major employment industries in Australia, you might say that this is so also in other countries; but in other countries building new houses is not as important as it is in Australia. One of the reasons for this is that Australia was taking in many emigrant, in the sixties Australia was taking emigrants in a regulated way, now because the population grows steadily also accommodation need to grow, therefore a lot of new houses need to be built, this building of new housing accommodations gives many opportunities for the new comers to be employed, since there is a lot of manual work involved, and therefore a healthy cycle is thus created; but even with these opportunities the building industry has its ups and down, as we all know.

The housing building industry and real estate are more or less linked together and both have their ups and downs; you see, it could have been helpful if one could foretell what is going to happen next year, but it is not always possible to guess what is going to happen in the future. If people could know this, then they could be able to save money, or get rich quickly, especially if they are going to buy or build a house. It would be also helpful for the investors, as they would be able to invest their money at the right opportunity; about buying a house and saving to buy a house, we are going to write later on, because now I would like to continue my own story about house building, since that is what I was going to do in the first place; anyhow it is worth to keep informed in these money matters.

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Working in the building industry

As I have said in one of my last articles or posts called: Is Australia the land of opportunities; when I came to Australia from my native town; Genzano di Lucania Italy I ended up working in the building industry. Working on building in Australia is usually a temporary job, because even the employer is subject to the same opportunities of work, therefore one is never sure what is going to happen next when one job is finished, and therefore there were always concerns about our employment status, so, sometimes we could not help to continually ask ourselves, whether our employer would be able to get another job to do in time, before we finished the one we were doing, but even though we were thinking that we still worked hard to finish the job on hand as soon as possible, because to find work you had to be competitive.

Well I have to say here that although this small Italian builder did lots of small jobs, it did work out all right most times and we were able to move from one job to another all-around Brisbane town and also to some other close by town/s. Of course this would cause some worries if you had no transport of your own and you had to rely on some friends or the employer to take you on the work site, where the building was going to be built, but we managed somehow.

I remember that there were times when I had to get up early and catch the first tram to the city, and then I had to catch the second tram to another suburb, where usually the builder would pick me up and drive me to the onsite job, in the evening after eight hours or more of hard work, I had to go back home, which took again a long time, but anyhow we managed all right, after all we were here in Australia to earn money and as long as we had a job to go to and earn that money we were happy to do that. You see, on building sites workers can earn a bit above other people wages, but there was this uncertainty because there was no guaranty that the work would last and it also was hard work all day long.

Anyhow I think that it was a good job with good opportunities to learn and improve your knowledge of building something yourself. You see in those times one could improve their working and earning position more easily than today, as a lot of people did, it was possible then because a lot of things were simple, and therefore they could be done just by using your common sense. Of course there were always inspections from local authorities to follow, but once you knew what it was required they were easy to follow, if you used your brains diligently, therefore in a way we have to say that we had more opportunities then compared to today opportunities.

I think I have said enough in this post; so, see you in our next post about earning and saving money.

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Affordable Rentals Building work in Australia

IS TO BE CONTINUED; 

Next time with, earning and saving money

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https://sites.google.com/site/prayersofreconciliation/

Yola.com

http://diybrickwork.com

http://frankmenchise.com

http://manneedsgod.co.uk

http://rentalsbrisbane.net

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Norman Park house Now available again

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NORMAN PARK HOUSE FOR RENT, NOW AVAILABLE

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Welcome to our blog, affordable rentals

And this post, Norman Park house for rent.

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This is the house for rent as seen from the street, there are more photos here-under for anybody interested in renting something like this house, so you can call me, Tel. 3397 9614

NORMAN PARK HOUSE FOR RENT

Location: at 19 Pattison Avenue Norman Park,

Affordable 3 bedrooms’ house for rent, $420 per week available now

Clean 3 bedrooms unfurnished house for rent

Interior wall freshly painted,

Good quite location: short walk to train station or bus, and local shops;

Cost $420 per week. Initial cost, 2 weeks rent +4 weeks’ bond

For inspection or more information call Frank, Phone 3397 9614

Or email us at this address: frankmenchise@gmail.com

Or http://affordablerentals.blogspot .com

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This is a nice home in beautiful Norman Park

Situated opposite Pattison Park, this tidy, low set home is one of the most sought after street in Norman Park. With built in wardrobes in two of the bedrooms and a large manicured block, this house is ready to be called a home. Property features include-

Three double sized bedrooms, two with built ins

Separate bathroom and toilet

Large double car port
Opposite Pattison Park

Close to public transport

Less the 10mins to the CBD

Big back yard

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Some photos here under will show you some of these features, however you need to inspect the premises to appreciate it fully.

Our telephone land-line number is: 07-3397 9614  

You can also email us at this address: frankmenchise@gmail.com

To know more you can visit these other websites here-under, where this advertisement may have more of different feature, one of these is:
http://rentalsbrisbane.net

Here the advertisement for this house is seen among other real estate advertisements, anyhow you can easily find it.

You can also visit, Brisbane Region, QLD | Gumtree Australia Free Local Classifieds

 or the Brisbane exchange;  Share accommodation - Brisbane Exchange 
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Here are a few more photos, so that you can see what the house looks like. 
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  another front view of the house. 

back of house 

pattison park 

car port

lounge room

main bedroom

built in in the bedroom

kitchen

bathroom









We have done our best to show you the house for rent; so, if you are interested in renting a house give us a call and ask for Frank phone 3397 9614
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