Rebuilding the house.

I've been living in  the backyard in a little shacky housey bachey thing for about 6 years now and I built it so cheaply that it's been leaking for about 5 1/ of those. I've done running repairs but it's been on my mind for a few years now to take the roof off and start again with something that gives me more space and is more impervious to the inclement weathers.
So over the past few years I've gotten various building materials together to finally get the job done. A bunch of sheets of fibrolite bought just before the prices doubled, and then some, and a load of old corrugated sheets for a bigger roof. All I needed was a few hundred bucks to get a load of 4x2 and then that happened a few weeks ago, just before Christmas, with a factory around the corner being gutted and the old wood being given away for free. I got absolutely loads of wood, easily a thousand bucks worth, and have been able to do alot more than I'd envisioned with a meager budget.

To date I've spent 172 dollars, with fifty of that for a set of shears to cut the galve sheet to fold up flashings, so it's been a big job without hardly any outlay.

So if anybody remembers what it used to look like then you'll be able to see quite a bit of room has been added. It's been really hard going but all the framing done and I'm now into the papering a fibro, plus attendant flashings, so it should be weatherproof in the next two days. The only bit of hassly stuff is that I have to do is build a door frame which'll be a bunch of fiddly cutting and routing but I've got some fijian kauri in reasonable sizes so it'll be quite fun using some decent tiber for a change. I've got a chair almost sold at the gallery so that'll allow me the next expense which will be a bunch of rough sawn tanalised tiber to build the soffits.

Then I'll line it with all the packing crate plywood I've kept under cover for the last 8mths. The really good thing about this whole job is that it'll tidy up the section immensely as all the various piles of materials I've kept to do this job will be attached in some way to the building... right down to interior fitting s and furniture. Then it'll be into and onto the gardens...