For this thread I'm concentrating on the block and not the shed build on the Shed sub forum. This is the block I purchased last year at Lalla, near Lilydale, in Tasmania, it's just under 8 acares or 3 and a bit hectares. It is mostly covered in bush and has a small stream on its North side running the length of the block and slops South from the road to North. My wife and I spent most of last year getting planning and building permits for the house and shed. As I mentioned in the post 'off the grid' on this forum, we hope to be off the grid with solar and some hydro from the creek. I have been asked 'why off the grid?' by many people, and I ask back with the increasing power costs expected over the next few years let alone what we have had till now, why would you not be off the grid. The cost of getting underground power to a rural block is dead money for a new build and I can put that money into being off the grid and then never having to pay some extortonist power company ever again. It might be just a small thing but the thought brings my wife and I great happyness to stick it back to the power companies. I designed the house myself with the weather and off the grid built in the design for the solar, however, the biggest problem I have had to date, is to meet BAL (bushfire attack level) 29 and I was not happy with this rating but when I thought about it the council is trying to save me from my own stupidity when it comes to a bushfire attack. I know my neigbours are toast if we get a bushfire as they do not have to comply with the new regs, so all in all I'm quite happy about it now.:D:D
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