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Miraz Jordan

I love simplicity and silence. I enjoy taking photos of birds. I live at Waikawa Beach in New Zealand, and strive to be an actively decent human being. In 2025 I expect to move to Ruakākā near Whangārei. Apparently the bizarre is normal now. Now 70, I'm super happy to be getting old — it means I'm not dead yet! Proudly a Free Being, eschewing the arbitrary. 100% human (she / her). I joined the MB community on 05 January 2018. Follow me on Micro.Blog at https://micro.blog/miraz .

  • Our new house passed another inspection today. 🏡

    I'm not quite sure what these builders photos show, but they were working on roof trusses. One seems to show some lengths of the long run Colorsteel that will cover the building.

    Next steps are roofing cladding and building wrap.

    Roof with Colorsteel sheets.
    Looking up through safety netting at roof trusses.

  • Work continues on our new house up north. 🏡

    This week the roof trusses were put in place.

    Photos courtesy of the builder.

    House with roof trusses in place, looking east and north.
    House with roof trusses in place, looking east and north.
    Roof trusses detail. Looking west and south.
    Roof trusses detail. Looking west and south.

  • About a week before we expected it the frames on our new house were stood. The panorama photo from the builder gives a probably much more accurate impression of the size — after all, it'll be twice as long as our current house and somewhat wider. 🏡

    It does also include a garage.

    Framing for a newly building house.

  • We now have a concrete floor. 🏡

    Now nothing happens for a couple of weeks while the concrete cures.

    A concrete slab above which a house will be built.

  • The raft foundation went in today ready for concrete to be poured this week. 🏡

    Polystyrene slabs fill the boxing on a building site.

    a polystyrene ‘pod’ with hardfill, laid over an under-slab polythene ground sheet. This type of foundation is quicker and easier to construct, with less excavation and earthworks, while the polystyrene offers superior insulation.

    Via: Conventional vs raft foundations.

  • Having completed the earthworks not long ago, the builders dug chunks of it up again to install the ducting required below the concrete slab to be poured soon. 🏡

    Photos supplied by the builder make it look like everything's much closer together than I think (hope) it will be in real life.

    Building site with small digger making a trench and distant workers doing various activities.

  • House building always seems to progress in fits and starts. After earthworks were completed, the next step was boxing, ready for underslab plumbing and then the concrete pour. 🏡

    Boxing around the space where the concrete floor for the house will be poured.

    I suspect the lens and the angle of the photo make the house appear to take up much more of the whole section than it really does. Photo supplied by builder.

  • Yay. Our building company uses a service called BuilderTrend. They started sharing photos of our new build with us. 🏡

    Three photos of earthworks on a new property.

    All the empty land behind and beside our new place will eventually have houses on it, but until then we get a bit of a view.

  • Before they can start building our new house they have to add some height to the building platform. 🏡

    Heavy machinery adds and works soil to raise the building platform.

  • Big day today. In theory they've started breaking ground at our new Ruakākā property. Meanwhile we just signed all the million forms to engage an estate agent to sell our Waikawa Beach place.

    • Nope, not a meth lab.
    • Nope, no one died here.
    • Nope, no hazardous waste stored here.
    • …

  • Might not look like much, but that Portaloo near the white sign marks the corner of our new property at Ruakākā, and indicates that work is about to start on our new house. 👯‍♀️

  • We don't yet have a start date for the house build at Ruakākā, but we expect to move perhaps mid-2025.

    Now that 2024 has come to a close we're turning our thoughts to selling up here at Waikawa Beach. And so we're beginning the process of cleaning up and clearing out.

    A little bit every day …

  • Well, at long last it's official — all signed up for a land and house package at Ruakākā on the east coast, a 20 minute drive south of Whangārei.

    Map shows Ruakākā south of Whangārei.

    We expect to be living there by this time in 2025. 🏡