How can I help you?

Hi all,

I was listening to the ABC radio yesterday and the afternoon announcer was commenting on how great it would be if both sides of politics could get together on some issues and simply help each other out to achieve a fruitful outcome. In fact how much better would the world be if more people simply helped others.

So my question is how can I help you?

Do you have some ideas for a new home but aren't sure where to start or how to get your dreams into plan form? Or do have an idea of what kind of living space you require but are not sure of how you want it to look, or how it can look? I'd love to help you.

Does your dream home seem a little out of reach due to builders quoting huge prices to build in the country...or city for that matter? I'd love to help you realise your dreams or get you as close to them as possible while keeping your budget in check.

Straight Edge Steel Frame Homes are incredibly versatile, easy to transport, easy and quick to erect and for many people the perfect no nonsense new home solution. In fact I'd go as far as saying it is "The Solution".

I'd love to help you find "The Solution" to your new home questions. You can email me at straightedge@iinet.net.au

Have a great weekend.
Scott

When I was a kid......

When I was a kid I had a ball. I had everything I needed, which in those days was a friends and a bike. A black one with a boys bar, as opposed to the girls style with no cross bar and a basket out front.. It originally had a long seat with the chrome bar up the back, but in line with what the other boys had, that simply had to go, and I got a smaller seat put on. I like to remember it looking somewhat like the Harley Sportster of bikes. Only it could corner, go over jumps the size of small schools, and be ridden down vertical creak beds which seemed like sheer cliffs at the time. Dad got me a motorcross style handle that fitted on one side that made a motorbike revving noise when you cranked it.

There was a great feeling of security and simplicity to country life at that time, and there were always people around for bbqs or to swim in the pool. Brilliant.

Our house was an old timber frame one with timber weatherboards, and it was built up on concrete stumps with the termite/ant caps on the tops. Mt Isa wasn't a cyclone prone area, although it could flood at times.

I was thinking about the framed homes we do now and how strong they are, and how much I'd love to help the folks in the USA who seem to get their homes blown away on a routine basis in Tornado Alley. I have no doubt that we could engineer steel framed homes to the right tolerances to assist these people. We supply homes to Exmouth and other Cyclone prone areas of Western Australia, and while I am sure the environments here and in the tornado belt of the USA are different in their own ways, I have no doubt we have a the technology.

Heavy duty fully welded frames, the right slab engineering, steel verandah systems, and our experience in dealing with all types of environments make steel framed homes a great option, and the DIY component has been well covered in other posts.

If anyone would like some advice or information on how to get a home cyclone rated please send me a message at the bottom of this post.

All the best.

The Season to Get Things Done

I am not really a betting man, and my only foray into the gambling world was a try at Roulette when I was 18. I placed $20 on red thinking 50/50 odds were as good as anyone could hope for. It stopped on black and I lost three hours pay as it was at the time. It hurt.

So these days I invest my time into things that I can rely on. They don't neccessarily pay off in dollar terms, but they can be counted on as truths. Taken to the bank!

By now you know I work with Steel Framed Homes and I thought with winter around the corner I'd remind you all why it's a great idea to start planning your new home now...yes now.

Winter is what I call planning season. It gets cold, and hopefully really wet if the gods favour us, and it's a great time to be inside doing things other than putting a home together.

I think the best thing you can do while having your hot chocolate is to start thinking about your floor plan, get me to draw your plans up, and for you to place an order for you new home and have everything ready so that you can break dirt and get your place to Lock-Up by Christmas. Between now and when the warm weather arrives we can have shire approval done so you'll be ready to roll. Ambitious?

It's not really ambitious. It's realistic.

Let's go over the benefits of building a new home using fully welded, prefabricated steel wall and roof frames.

Speed of Construction.
Using prefabricated fully welded wall frames enables you to build your home so much quicker than other types of construction. Speed of construction equals lower labour costs equals savings for you. All wall frames and roof trusses are numbered and are matched to easily follow the "how to" drawings and plans.
And while there are many other benefits such as flexibility of design, it's strength, the way steel is a natural barrier against termites, cyclonic rated, flexibility in the final finish, fire resistant and easy to add onto later.

Apart from all those really cool things is that Steel Framed Homes can be built very,very quickly.

2011 could be the year you got more home for less and got into a place you can call your own.