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'For some, the piles of used construction materials amassing on their property
might have been considered a hoarding issue.
That wasn't the case for Mat Boyle and Anna Winneke.
Among the dry and gnarly hills of Fryerstown, a central Victorian landscape
ravaged by gold mining in the early years of European settlement, they were
building a house from reclaimed materials.
Partly out of necessity — "there was really no budget other than our own
energy," Mr Boyle says — and partly out of principle.
"We've become such a throwaway world, and the stuff we're throwing away is
quite often awesome and better quality than what we've got now," he says.
The house, built in the early 2000s over a number of years, contains beams they
gleaned from a railway line and webbed trusses from a tech school. A grain silo
became a bathroom.
Bricks, metal and timber were rescued from numerous demolished houses.
Ms Winneke estimates the cost of the build was less than $100,000, but that
doesn't include the cost of their own labour.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
