AUSSIES!! help needed... not boat related

[Wild Dingo]

Mates I need a hand here!
If you all recall we experienced a flood down here last year and the end result is we now need to replace the house... its phooked we have been given 2 years to either fix it or replace it... and as its totally stuffed with the ingress of water (ie: all the plasterboard needs replacing the cielings and roof need replacing 1/4 of the floor boards need replacing and from what I saw recently when a window fell out in the kids room much of the internal timber walls need replacing as well the stumps were put in when the ground was wet and the other stumps also wet which means that now the stumps are dropping in some areas and hard in others meaning the doors and walls are droppin and warping... so essentially the whole internal of the house will need replacing or repair a major undertaking especially with me bein away for 2 out of 3 weeks at a time

So Ive been searching high and low for a kit home... with only one week in three to build it it needs to be easy and quick to do

Locally in West Aussie we have steel kit home builders who think a shed makes a nice home offering all the options and inclusions of a shed with a house price... so Ive recently been looking further afield to the east coast... theres a whole bunch of them over there and some of their prices are brilliant with inclusions and such sorta like when your buying a built house walls cielings kitchens etc are included only you build it...

So after one absolutely shattering conversation with a mob called PAAL in Sydney this morning (after several great conversations over the last few weeks) its now decided that they have cut WA off the map! And no longer offer a service to WA... although they do service the NT even out to remote cattle stations :rolleyes: but not WA :mad:

Im still to inform Jo that her choice is gone... shes gonna be totalled as she had thought that it was a goer and had made changes to the floorplan made choices for colors and such... anyway Ive now gotta tell her that its not going to happen

Anyway mate... any assistance as to who to contact that would/will service WA you can offer would be appreciated!!

Cheers!

PS... Please dont mention bloody PAAL (http://www.paal.com.au) steel homes in Sydney! :mad:

[Wild Wassa]

Hey Dingo, over here the popular kit homes are the Kentuky Fried Homes. I think they are interesting. If you have been to your Nation's Capital Dingo, you will have noticed that very few homes here are interesting and Kentuky Fried Homes stand out. I've a friend in Bungendore, NE of here in NSW, with a fine garden, her home looks very appropriate for her surroundings, the low wrap-around verandah looks spivvy.

The Wild West will have a go at any Eastern Stater that they find or catch. I've seen your news paper headlines Dingo, "ANOTHER MURDER CAUSED BY AN EASTERN STATER, so when are you dropping over here Dingo we can check out some of these digs? The space is here Digger, so is the wind and few are murdered ... Dingo, you would get to see snow, on your roof.

The land rights verdict giving the Nunga's Perth, well done, a great result. It is about time we convicts payed our rent.

Warren.

[skuthorp]

http://www.kentuckynapier.com.au/

One of their factories and displays is up the road from us Shane, we've looked at replacing our place in Melbourne with one. Good stuff, well thought out and designed. They're used to odd locations, islands and such - there's one on Norfolk - but as for the costs to WA you'd have to ask. They built one on a barge, maybe with your flood problem.....??
I'm off for a fortnights leave today, but I'd be happy to look at anything you want to check. Built on a gal steel 'C' girder frame.
Look in your messages mate

[Wild Dingo]

Wassa mate as much as I love some of yous blokes a move east isnt gonna happen... maybe a holiday but no way will she move east to live... dont ask me why not its not as though we owe anything to WA or have many close ties here (shyte her mob rarely visit or yarn to her so theyre a non event) other than the three who've left home... shes just not into a move of that sort :rolleyes:

Kentucky Fried Homes??? thats a new one on me mate!

[Wild Wassa]

Mate, Jeff know how to spell it.

Warren.

[skuthorp]

Yeah Warren, but maybe he's considering a disused franchise building, there are a couple around here, and Dingo and the colonel have more than a passing resemblance when his beard grows...... How you fancy Colonel Dingo, no, Admiral!!!
I'm off, see you in a couple of weeks!

[Wild Dingo]

Mate, Jeff know how to spell it.

Warren.

Eh?? yer wot?

[Wild Wassa]

Kentuky Fried?

Jeff, take us with you. Where are you going by the way? If you say Lake Bogga ... I willn't be happy. But if you are, go and get bogerred at Lake Bogga.

Warren.

[MarkC]

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steel kit home builders who think a shed makes a nice home offering all the options and inclusions of a shed with a house price

So why not 'turn this on its head' and buy a steel-shed at a shed-price and put in the fittings of a house - as is popular in some parts of the east coast NSW and QLD. They can be dressed-up to not resemble a shed at all - size is up to you

[stef]

That e-bode looks like a trailer but with a bit more panache. Some what Ikea-esque

I like the flying roof.

It would be a great seasonal home here. I could only imagine the heating costs as the temperature begins to drop. I am getting cold thinking about it.

Good luck on your search Dingo.

There are a number of flat pack house designs on this side of the pond. The classic log cabin kits: http://www.loghomes.ca/en/top.cfm . Or more modern building systems: http://www.insulspan.com/

Stefan

[Wild Dingo]

Jeff cheers for the pm mate :cool:

Im presently going through their list of designs... will let you know how we get on

Cheers Wassa never heard of this mob before and thought you were bein funny... I mean a lot of the new ubeaut archetecture looks like Kentucky fried chicken stores all sodding bright gaudy collors an block like :eek:

Cheers Mark and Stef... would be an interesting excersize to see how much one of those log cabin types cost to send downunder eh! ;)

Okay... had a gander and will send them an email as first contact... however they are somewhat small in size for the prices quoted from what Ive seen... anyway will as I say give them a hoi an see whats what with them

[BFR]

Y not try across the ditch... I know we kiwis tend to have a ****e load of kit home builders.... never know say u want to become there WA agent and might get a discount!!!
an enquirey never hurts.

[JimJ]

Dingo

Have you thought about a "second hand" house. We can go to a "house yard" and select one, have it transported and placed on stumps for an all inclusive price.

An example is here. I have no connection. It was the first on google

http://www.davidwright.com.au/

Jim

[PeterSibley]

G'day Shane ....just back online ,been having ISP problems .About your old house , I know a new one sounds great but get a quote on getting it restumped PROPERLY.The right size footings and nice big steel beams below.You could even lift it up 2 metres and have parking underneath.Redoing the gyprock is a doddle.....messy but simple and get it professionally plastered.The floor you can do :D, nothin' to a gun like you .A hell of a lot cheaper than a new one mate !