Stormwater Pipes Part 2
So you’ve got your gutters in place and you’ve got your water tanks in place and everything is ready for you to collect your own water off the roof of the house. But with things the way they are you aren’t going to be getting any water are you? Because you haven’t connected your gutters [...]
Got That? Why Not Try Stormwater Next?
Okay now it’s time to think about other things you can do around the house by yourself. I’ll give you another example of something that really isn’t very hard to do yourself if you apply yourself to learning about it. That’s doing your own stormwater. Stormwater is where the water goes when it rains on [...]
And Building A Garage Gives You Skills
That’s the story building my own garage. If you can follow it I hope that you find it useful enough to build one for yourself. There’s so many things around your house that you can do for yourself want to take time and make the effort to learn how to do it for yourself. It [...]
So What Do You Do Next?
I mentioned in my last story that there were some more things that you need to do if you want to make your garage complete. Here’s a few extra things you might like to think about if you want to make your garage more useful. You need to have a workbench. A workbench is a [...]
What About A Roller Door?
So you have the basis of a good garage now. You’ve got your walls up, you’ve got your doors in, you’ve got your windows in, you’ve weatherboarded your walls, you put up your carport, installed your girders and rafters and put the metal on the roof to form a waterproof and weatherproof structure. But there [...]
Now It’s Time For The Weatherboards.
Okay so you’ve got the roof in place. What do you do next? Well you’ve got all your wall frames in place but at the moment they’re just uncovered frames so you need to cover your frames to make your external cladding. I used timber weatherboards which look great and which are relatively inexpensive. There [...]
Next Comes The Roof.
Once you’ve done all of your doors and windows, and got all of your frames secured in place then you can start on something else. My garage was actually a garage and carport all combined. So I had to build a garage at one end of my concrete slab and I had to build a [...]
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