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Concrete Benches? An intro

Wild Eden Keegans 08/08/2019 05/01/2020

Thinking of doing concrete benches? Read this first! I often joke with people that when doing the rammed earth, we would be mixing large amounts just adding ingredients by hand and eye – no real measurements – then when we came to the concrete benches we were literally using drug scales and measuring 20 different products at 0.1g accuracy!! Talk about chalk and cheese. Side note: Just in case you were wondering – yes the scales used to be used for drugs. Something else Jesus has redeemed 😂. I was amazed that there was an actual legitimate use for them …

Another day of trials

Wild Eden Keegans 01/04/2019 02/04/2019

Today was the first day in a long time that we have rammed any walls. I have been looking forward to getting stuck in for months, however health and other issues have held us up. I was excited to be well enough so started forming up early on the foundations we laid a couple of days ago…

Building | Rammed Earth building | rammed earth | trials

Racing to beat winter

Wild Eden Keegans 31/03/2019 10/06/2019

We had thought it would be easy – but due to sickness, finances and a number of other issues, it is now going to be very difficult to get a bathroom sorted for hot showers before winter… We have running water (mostly) for doing dishes, though the main plumbing for waste water needs to go right where the north verandah will be. To make things easier and cheaper in the long run, the verandah had to be next!

Concrete / GFRC | Rammed Earth building | concrete

GFRC Concrete Desk Test

Wild Eden Keegans 24/10/2018 12/01/2020

As we have opted to do our main bench (or counter) tops in concrete ourselves due to cost, we have a fair amount of testing and learning to do…

Concrete / GFRC building | GFRC

Building Progress: A Month of Serving

Wild Eden Keegans 05/01/2017 13/09/2021

The last few weeks have been CRAZY with a capital K. Often we have deadlines with working on the house, jobs or building, however this last 6 weeks or so has been mainly about entertaining and blessing people – birthdays, Christmas, New Years and more. Today, being my birthday I would have liked to have had time to reflect, but this is the best I could manage:

Building building | Christmas | New Year | serving

Building Progress: The ROOF!

Wild Eden Keegans 02/09/2016 13/09/2021

Building Progress Update – putting the roof on is going QUICKLY!

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Building Progress: The Walls are DONE!!

Wild Eden Keegans 01/07/2016 13/09/2021

Building Progress Update: The Rammed Earth Walls are DONE!

Building | Rammed Earth building | rammed earth

A property in Sovereign Hill?

Wild Eden Keegans 01/09/2010 04/04/2022

We had always loved the area around Guilderton. We regularly camped on the beach in the area and tried to whenever possible. So we looked at looked for properties in the area. From Woodridge to Guilderton to Redfield Park to Sovereign Hill to Seabird and further east – to Gingin, Beermullah are beyond. There was a big jump from large farm type properties to the smaller semi suburban lots.Woodridge was well established but we couldn’t afford it. Sovereign Hill was smaller lots (2.5 acres) and scrubby like bush, Guilderton was more holiday tpe housesout of our price range. Redfield Park …

Building building | faith | finances | provision