Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Progress - Continued - The Container Solution

The new plans which I have been working on for our new house, have been submitted to building control for approval, (or so I thought) it has been a bit of a challenge, the detail the council require has become very detailed but, I did it, now just the wait for the build permit to be issued.
As as well as designing the new build, I had to get my head around a new CAD Program as the old Autocad had died and as Autocad don't support this program anymore, I decided to buy a new one made by BricsCAD.
The conversion worked well with all my existing files converting over to the new system.
Most of the drawing controls were very similar so there was not to much stress, plus I need a new printer which had expired (dead) in sympathy. - very surprised how the cost for new printer has dropped, purchase a suitable model on SALE for $250.00 then they gave me $100.00 cash back,  although the consumables are a little expensive.-very...

On-board life is very good, we thought it would be a good idea to have somewhere else to stay over winter, life can become very uncomfortable on the boat in a storm, and we have been having some very severer weather lately.
The solution was to convert a container that would be on-site, and would be a stable platform to work and live from as a backup and temporary home.

I have insulated the container plus installing double glazed windows making the interior very warm
The tricky bit was taking the doors off, cutting the hinges with an angle grinder, they are very very heavy, some nimble footwork was required when they came off...




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