Planning your home |
1 |
Why build? |
1 |
Building blues |
4 |
Design |
7 |
Be your own Architect |
7 |
The design process |
7 |
Finding three dimensions in two |
10 |
Design games |
12 |
Models help you to design |
15 |
Solar efficient design |
17 |
Living in an Alistair Knox house |
21 |
Bushfire defensive house |
25 |
Flood defensive house |
29 |
Cyclone (hurricane) defensive house |
32 |
Navigating in the Timber Framing Code |
35 |
Earth Walls |
38 |
Good design saves on plumbing |
38 |
Kitchen design |
39 |
On site |
42 |
Safety on site |
42 |
Site access and layout |
44 |
Setting out the site |
48 |
Setting out the building outline |
54 |
Setting up |
56 |
Bracing |
57 |
Scaffolding |
59 |
Homemade ladders |
65 |
Strong foundations |
69 |
Footings and floors |
69 |
Concrete slab |
78 |
Vertical concreting |
81 |
Organising a concrete pour |
84 |
Pouring and finishing concrete |
86 |
Earth floors |
91 |
Slate jigsaw floor |
92 |
And bed floors |
94 |
From the earth |
95 |
Any soil will do |
95 |
Quick & easy mudbrick moulds |
101 |
Dropping a mudbrick |
102 |
What is a good earth wall? |
103 |
Rammed earth |
106 |
Ramming tools |
109 |
Forts in the desert
|
114 |
Mudbrick |
117 |
Mudbrick laying |
121 |
Mixing mortar |
124 |
Mudbrick arches |
129 |
Formwork cob (poured earth) |
130 |
Earth brick presses |
135 |
Strawbale: Low cost sustainable building with strawbale |
141 |
Footings |
141 |
Loadbearing
strawbale walls |
143 |
Earth-lime render for strawbale walls |
146 |
Designing for a strawbale home |
148 |
More about mud |
150 |
Rendering earth walls |
150 |
Fixing things to an earth wall |
155 |
Many ways to mix mud |
157 |
Puddled mudbricks |
158 |
Mud mixing by trailer |
159 |
How the Muddies built a monastery |
160 |
Bottle mosaics |
163 |
Stone endures |
165 |
Types of building stone |
167 |
Slipform stonework |
168 |
Tonnes of granite |
169 |
Fourteen slipforms |
170 |
Splitting bush sandstone |
173 |
Building with bluestone |
175 |
Building stone arches |
179 |
Two faced stonework |
180 |
Our granite house |
184 |
Woodworking skills |
185 |
Measuring |
185 |
Sawing |
191 |
Hammering |
197 |
Using an adze |
202 |
Adzing tips |
202 |
Timber |
204 |
Post and beam design |
204 |
Lift that pole |
209 |
Basic pole shelter |
212 |
Pole frame house |
214 |
Sumatran pole house |
214 |
Laying a timber floor |
216 |
Building a stud-frame wall |
222 |
Building adventures |
227 |
Nailing on weatherboards |
228 |
A roof overhead |
231 |
Roof framing |
231 |
Flat or cathedral ceiling |
235 |
Constructing a skillion roof |
236 |
Constructing a gable roof |
237 |
Constructing a hip roof |
247 |
Roof trusses |
252 |
Putting on roof battens |
258 |
Finishing gable ends |
259 |
Fascia spouting |
261 |
Nailing on roof metal |
264 |
Sequence of roofing operations |
267 |
The Pink Palace: mudbrick domes and vaults |
268 |
Doors and windows |
271 |
Hanging a door |
271 |
Windows |
274 |
Cutting glass |
287 |
Puttying |
288 |
Creative recycling |
290 |
Creative recycling |
290 |
Denailing |
293 |
Car cases |
294 |
Apple box shingles |
295 |
Paper mudbricks |
295 |
Appendices |
296 |
Access directory |
296 |
Bibliography |
300 |
Glossary |
303 |
Index |
311 |