Building The Power Room | Building House In The Philippines | Aussie Filipina Simple Living

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One of our plans when we move to our farm, is to live off the grid and that is to provide our own power with a solar system. Before installing the solar system, we need to build a house for it. Building a power room needs more preparation and we make sure it is air well ventilated.
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so they're going well on our um power
room uh this is basically where the
solar system is going to
live now we've bought the door jam the
other day they've got that in
place be done has been done it looks
like we're just uh locking up the form
work for the roof it's going to be a
concrete roof so it'll be a solid solid
little
room and
um yeah yeah it's going well there
they've obviously got a bit of work to
do to form the outside then and then I
guess that'll be poured to getting our
our power room done which is good the
other day they've also cleaned out the
uh we cleaned off all the
scaffold well most of it so I've got the
scaffold around this room now only must
have redone that in the last couple of
days and this are all on the front of
the house now the scaffold's been
removed
so you can see this the lers
here uh still don't look great but
that's cuz this do the
Finish concrete finish on this that's an
extra
too um I just forget what it cost
us 10,000 P or
something uh might have been a bit more
about 15 to do the inside so mot mot
finish on the walls but of course that
makes it makes it look
um very nice down the bottom here once
that's done so everything else is done
I'm really pleased with the way
this roof has come out we decided to use
a
clear perspect
almost fiber panel or something they
call it for the roof to allow light to
get in
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downstairs um without that I think if we
had have done a dark roof or matched our
main roof I think it could have been a
bit dark
inside as it is it's really good it's
quite light and Airy because of these
grills that we've got and because of
these louvers that allow the the
air to get up to get in low and
circulate out at the top obviously we'll
need to
finish here with a path and a drain at
some point now so we really the only
things
well apart from the concrete of course
for the car Park
area um we got to get the front door on
and the back door both need to be
completed so here they working on the
forms for the top of
the power room
here up
so here's our power room it's uh the
boys have been forming up the
roof and putting all the Rio in that
today notic i' put a couple of
Lights in the oh maybe it's all four
corners I'm not sure which is really
cool they'll be set up in the concrete
so that's a a very good addition that I
hadn't thought about looks like it's got
a little cover out over the door and
around the edge
keep the the um the water well away from
it so it looks like the boys are ready
to
pour on the roof of the
uh of the power room
there so this is the roof of our par
room boys are getting it ready to pour
now going to pour it
today for two lights inside couple
lights outside yeah
it's uh lot of
R and
uh going to come out the side which is
good allow me walk
around they're wetting it down at the
moment so I guess the uh concrete would
stick to the wood I better get out of
the way I'll be getting
wet so we haven't done any uh concreting
for quite a
while this one now
where starting it up I do the mix I got
everything ready
here we got the um Sahara which is going
to waterproof the roof
here and uh they're getting ready to do
the
P so it's going to be good to get this
is this going to our air conditioner
going to sit on the roof
this the room the bedroom which is there
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going so we're just doing the finishing
touches on
the roof here they pulled this morning
it's dried enough now and
they do the
finishing looking
Beau
yay it's a good thing we bought we
bought a big roll of this
um this T material here it was cheaper
to buy by the RO and um looks like it's
a good thing all off earlier in
preparation and um I think we keep the
right off I guess too much Min
on all it
sets so just cover up here
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up so we got enough grav to do the floor
so that's today I think they're going to
pour that um I'm not sure here I think
they might be removing the scaffolding
is there scaffolding coming down today
en yeah yeah good Okay cool so that will
and did the roof did the roof get
sealed yeah it's done yeah uh
oh good all right so we're right to put
the air conditioning up on there
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now actually I think that is coming in
across
