Our House Plan

Our preliminary house & layout plans have arrived thanks to Gordon's Drafting Services in Bega. Mel & I are very excited. Only a few changes, but I think it looks really good. You can see our wind turbine in this view and also our awesome doors/windows off our living & bedroom areas that we picked up cheap on Ebay. We should hopefully have our plans through council soon and then it is finally time to start building.

What makes our build eco friendly

Besides our house being built from straw bales, which has amazing insulation properties, we are incorporating the following;

• Solar Panels from Clear Solar
• Biolytix is supplying us with our Black & Grey Water system.
• Pyramid Power, in Pambula, is helping us with our Solar Hot water & Install. They are in our area and I feel know the best system for our climate. They are also installing our Biolytix System too.
• Rhino Tanks is supplying us with a 126,000L Tk
• We are going for a natural roof insulation, probably wool or shredded paper. We have not chosen anyone as yet there.
• Straw Bale, our walls are coming from Trent at straw.com.au from Coleambally, NSW. It is a bit far away but has the best straw to build with.

We are so excited to start our build. Should not be long until we receive our plans too which I hope to share with you all too.

Our Small Plot

This is our lovely, 6 & 1/2 Acre, bush block. As you can see it has a nice little slope to it, but has not stopped us from wanting to build on it. The top of the block is mainly filled with 'Stringy Bark' & 'Bloodwood' trees. We are going to try and minimalise the amount of land we are clearing and is going to make us a little upset to see them knocked down but we are going to try and use them as much as possible during the build. We will have a mobile saw mill who will cut most of the timber to size for the framing required and the leaf tops, bark and un-usable wood will be used for mulch. All the 'dead wood' around will be used to keep us warm on the cold Wallagoot nights.

About Us

G'day. My name is Steve Page. My Wife, Melanie, our 2 children, Travis, Bethany & I are about to embark on building our own house out of straw bale. This idea of a lifestyle change from Wollongong to Wallagoot, on the N.S.W. far south coast has been in planning for over 2 years now. This is our blog of how we have planned our house, different Eco techniques, Eco products we have used & our overall journey. We plan on living off the land as much as we can. We will grow our own fruit & veges, chickens for eggs, solar hot water & power. Our sewage system will purify its self

through worms and organic material and flow back onto out fruit trees. We will hope that one day what we are doing now might inspire someone else to do the same.