The plan I show people is to construct a room #1, say, 4M x 2m that has a removable toilet, a shower or bath. A place to cook and prepare food.
If you use square steel posts to hold any roof and ceiling structure up the benefits ase as follows;
- light to handle
- Posts can be set out as you get time and money
- Roof joists etc can be bolted as time allows into the future.
PROCESS THEREAFTER
- create a veranda out the front of the first room, say 1.8M wide which will eventually connect to another room #2, 4M square.
- The veranda area #3 can be a cooking area for a while, separate from the bathroom # 1 scene now.
- That room #2, can be sleeping quarters / lounge and dining if wet until another room #3 is built to one side.
- The final sleeping area room #3 can be built and room #2 becomes a kitchen / dining lounge area.
And the process continues until you stop.
If planned and executed well, nothing needs to be dismantled as the house expands. A temporary doorway becomes a window, ceilings are added after a time to improve comfort.
Sometimes a small loan at the start that helps with the cash flow can work well.
If each area is built at intervals you have time to collect low cost / free materials or save money.
As things progress you maybe able to live there and save rent elsewhere.
It could be that rooms #1 and #2 take tweleve months and so the job progresses.
My own home has taken 38 years to date.
I am busy helping others and I build as needs are changing.
- I started with 1 bedroom 7 x 8 M with a front veranda.
- I added a 2m x 3m tool room adjacent to the bathroom to store things I did not want stolen. It had heavy doors, steel mesh in the walls and no windows.
- Then a veranda opposite the tool room, which 15 yeras later became a galley kitchen.
- A veranda 2.5M wide was added down the 8m side , east, which later became a bedroom for small children.
- 35 years after I started I added a 3m x 2m walk in wardrobe to the other side which was entered through a previous window space.
- 2 yeras later that area was lengthend along the west, wall and became a 3rd bedroom entered through the tool room.
- The tool room became a pantry with a small skylight.
- 1 year ago, I added a bedroom 4M x 4.5M to one end of the eastern veranda, which incorporated some of that veranda. I removed a 4M wall.
Each time I have used cash flow or obtained a no interest loan offered to people here.
The loan meant I did not have to wait too long to weather proof the new addition. I only got that loan when weather proofing was needed.
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It would be nice to see a layout of your design!
Thanks
