Peter Sguazzato

Hey guys reading about your snake problems and poultry of any kind will attract snakes, and it’s dangerous especially when children are around, in Australia snakes are protected, how stupid is that when the life of a person is at risk, on my farm snakes will die either of lead or shovels, I have come very close to being bitten and my little daughter at the time came close to a snake, so I’m always looking for them, I love the country life and would never change it, but snakes are not welcome on my property, take care guys
Cheers. Peter Sguazzato

I would be installing some 600mm roof whirlybirds to extract heat from inside, if you can run some metal duct from beneath some trees to lower bottom of external doors so as to keep airflow through the house, then when you have the money, remove the roof and install 100mm reinforced Hebal ceiling then reinstate metal roofing with 100mm rock wool insulation underneath and reinstall the whirlybird vents, but you will need to make sure you get flow through ventilation

Hi guys from what I understand this method of construction was used in Pompeii also due to earthquakes, they used it as the walls could breathe making the house thermally sound, they even installed lead piping for hot water in the walls for heating, apparently they placed vertical poles in the ground through the gabion walls to the top to keep the walls vertical and to attach the top plates so to pitch the roof, there is a family here in Victoria who has built a Gabion house and the council engineers made him put steel vertical columns in the gabion walls to keep the building vertical and also for pitching of the roof, I’m looking at building the same way and using hemp cement rendering inside and outer walls with hot water piping for heating, and reinforced hebal cement ceilings for thermal insulation, anyway hope this adds some light on your project, good luck with it, kind regards Peter