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(my camera picture count has just passed 8000).

Most of them are work in progress, but without detail they don’t mean much.

There are 2 pages, this page has completed work, but the tools page has more work in progress.

THE CONTAINER CITY IN PICTURES.

10 containers in all, 8 x40ft and 2 x12ft.

Please enjoy glancing over the pictures and the associated text. There has been a lot of change and experimentation. I could talk for hours on that.

Internal home pictures.

The 2 containers side by side gives you plenty of internal room. The galley kitchen (wet left/dry right) works a treat. The living is 4.4x4m.

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View of bathroom, kitchen and part living room.
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Dining room, work bench come extended living room.
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The computer bench with printer stand. The screen also serves foxtel, security cameras
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opposite view towards the bedroom.
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The extended bedroom has a walk-in-robe plus this makes space for a queen bed.

External pictures.

Container city is built on the slope of a hill. The ground is 1/3 cut, 2/3 fill –  well compacted. There is gravel all around, so you can wlk there in the wet.

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This is a drone picture of the container city, showing "mainstreet" in the centre.
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And here we are a look down mainstreet.
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This is Mary's corner in memory to my late wife. The growing trees are now affecting my view.
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Door to the dining room.
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The container roofs look like a war ship. Whirly birds, a G4 amplify aerial, foxtel dish, starlink dish, security cameras, incinerator toilet stack, various electrical junction boxes.

Workshops.   (WS)

Every man needs his workshop, particularly if you are buiding a city. These are the best private workshops I have ever had. There is also a plumbing store.

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Cont1-The general metal workshop, large equipment left, handtool & components shelves right.
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This is cont2 joined to cont1. It is the steel store, cutting, and welding.
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cont5-The timber and paint workshop. Left is the stock. Right tools, workbench and just visible a saw/router bench. In the paint section is a thicknesser.
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Cont7-The electrical/electronic workshop with the workbench at the end, left.
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Cont9-The laboratory. This is intended for the hydroponics (I am building the greenhouse now) research, but now I do bacteria testing on the water treatment.

Go to the Gallery page 2 – tools.

Go to the Research page. 

I would like to book 1 hour consultation @ $77/hr. Refunded if less than 1/4 hour.

Infra structure.

The infrastructure in both power and water, have been a constant issue of change and  experimentation. But each move was a small improvement.

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Another drone shot, showing the solar panels in relation to the containers. The little shed left is the pump house, previously laundry.
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The wind turbine. It always surprises me how people can turn a basically good piece into a failure, by combining the vane with a cheap inverter. This is Ver4 and 5 is coming -- I hope.
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This is the lower tankfarm, for collection and processing. This is about version 5. The number of tanks changed as shown in the sequence 5, 6, 7, 5, 6. Plus piping changes, oh boy, don't remind me!
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The hill top tanks (1 fresh 2 grey). Originally I hoped the 20 m fall would work with the filters, but NO! -- I had to install 2 pressure pumps.
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Piping behind the bathroom

More Infrastructure.

More water infrastructure. Showing filtration, pumps and valves. The 3 skinny tanks behind the laundry.

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The water system has two parallel flows, fresh & grey. Each is separately filtered in 4 stages.
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This is a better view of the pump house. It has 3 pumps. There is also a tub for dirty pipe cleaning etc, that discharger into a pit.
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There are also 4 pumps plus a blower in the lower tankfarm. The orange boxes are motorized valves controlled from the pump house.
laundry water collection
This tank collects the drain water from the laundry. It can handle 3 maybe 4 washing cycles and then we pump it to the process tank
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Living off grid without a backup generator is misery. The blue one in the back, 8kVA, is generator Number 5.

Other picture.

With a 7ton truck, a 4wd ute, an excavator plus generators, you will need to store fuel onsite. 20L drums are too heavy for me.

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On a property you need fuel storage. At one stage I had gas heaters, another bad experiment.
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Table tennis with ball launcher. If work slows down I can remain fit here. This launcher keeps you on your toes.
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This is my 7 ton tipper with 1 ton crane placing solar panels. Without this crane I would have been lost, completely snookered.
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This the laundry, version 2. It has a 3m part of a 12m container. To the right is set of shelving plus s smaller table (you cannot see). The floor slopes to the door, incase there is a mishap.
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This is the inside of the grid forming inverter. Wow, this is some piece of engineering, actually built in Germany.

NO WINDOWS.

People frown (or worse) when I say that. But you don’t need them and it also improves the security and insulation. Plus there are 2 opposing doors for socalled ventilation.

Left is the multi input screen. This shows from top left: computer – security cameras – foxtel – CD player.

Left is a 4 split screen of security cameras. That is my window! Viewing north, west, east, and the entrance. There are more views. 

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