You still need to do four years to gain a full qualification as a Carpenter. This caorse would narrow it down to 3 and a 1/2.
This course is the first six months of an apprenticeship. So it’s Cert II Pre-Apprentice Carpentry, Bricklaying, and Painting & Decorating.
I’m doing it for a number of reasons, and don’t know if I will go thru to do a full apprenticeship?
We got confirmation this week that three contracts have been signed and we will indeed be building three granny flats.
Someone off the street has asked tafe to make them, the Tafe make no money, they only put 10% on for tools, teachers, costs etc.
We’ll do our bit then Electrical will do there bit, then Plumbing will do there bit. I presume we will get to see the whole project to completion.
This week we will be pouring a slab, but it’s actually not the slab like a house it will be a extension slab in the big shed there building for Tafe as it expands and the granny flat will be built on there, as it will turn out. Although we will be setting up a slab ready to pour for an exercise in sand somewhere else and then just taking all that down again.
I’m hoping to get insight into all the costs involved!
Another thing I found out that I wasn’t aware of and that younggun19 might want to consider, is that you can rent from day one when you use the First Home Owners Grant.
You don’t have to live in it six months then move out and then be able to rent it, you can rent a room soon as you purchase it, just as long as your stil living there, for six months beggining from anytime in 12 months.
So you could rent it out from the day you purchase it then on the 355th day move in to start living in there for the required six months and then be renting out one, two, three rooms while your living in it six months or whatever amount of time from then on!
Rent out one, two three rooms….this may help with the payments to Interest. Coupled with the FHOG and a parent or somebody you know that may be able to lend you 10 grand you might be able to scrap in somewhere.
younggun19 have a bit of a look at my calculators at my website http://www.Jaffasoft.com for more of an idea on the numbers.
I remember reading it in Bundaberg when I was on holidays in 2002. I went to the library and spent a few hours reading then went back again a few days later and couldn’t stop reading it until I finished it.
I see, so if it’s not called a Granny Flat and it’s called a fully self Contained Unit it’s alright [smiling], Redwing.
My mum used to have one that each of her sons spent a bit of time each in at some stage or another and we called it, ‘The Love Shack’.
Out Hut, Granny Flat, Hut, whatever you like to call it, it’s more or less a little unit that may be only small enough to contain a bed small cupboard TV, small fridge etc. Some are pretty flash and made of brick with one or two bedrooms, toilet etc. So they vary but usaully are out the back or down the side of the house or somewhere just away from the main house.
I just called it a Bungalow because that’s what was used in the add and says it’s returning 120 per week.
Caravan park units that I have seen are about $50 a night, they are much better then this thing. Jaco make em up to sell to caravan parks to look like almost a small house with small Veranda and everything, I quiet like them. I haven’t gone into any details about running a caravan park. Though I have researched the price of the Jaco cabins and they vary from anything from 20k to 30k ‘Fully Self Contained’ transportable units.
This is smaller then them, I can’t see how he has got $120 per week before, I know the area here and I have gone through every RE Agency and the cheapest one bedroom (Normal) unit goes for $90 -$110. But even getting $90 per week for this in the back yard would still be pretty good. Provided you had a suitable area for it, so that the person residing there had privacy and was able to come and go through a driveway or something.
The extra 40 dollars in your pocket wouldn’t be bad.
Sampson ,
Well going by the add and the photograph’s I have seen and also I have seen the building itself. Not inside but visibly from 20 metres, because I know where it is, where the guys selling it from.
So it’s just a transportable rectangular building 6 by 3 meters, with shower bay, kitchenette, sink, hot water service, all electric with power points and safety switch, guttering, flat roof. Doesn’t say it has got a toilet.
Blue Gum trees are a stronger structured branch and known to be less likely to drop a limb. Compared to Red Gum, if that’s any peace of mind.
But make sure you look at how much tree weight on one side of the tree you lop off, it may well help the tree topple over to your neighbour’s way.
I had a concern once if a tree was going to fall on where I was living, so I rang up and had a Fell come out. He used a cheery picker and tied a chain around the upper area of the tree. And at roughly 70 metres away with the chain connected to the truck and putting pressure to pull the tree his way, another guy felled the tree. This made sure the tree fell away from the house. Timberrrrrrr…..there was plenty of paddock for the tree to fall in, in this instance. All for $150.
It was then that I asked the Fella about the tree and he said it was rare for a Red Gum to drop a limb like the Blue Gum’s do anyway.
I maybe might not have done that if I new from the start.