G'day All
A potted history:
Recently attended the 17.5 hours Successful Owner Building course at Holmesglen TAFE (Chadstone, Vic) (approx $375, Friday pm, Saturday and Sunday)
Enjoyed it so much I am now enrolled in the Course for Builder's Registration, with a view to obtaining the Domestic Builder's Registration (approx $1,650)
This course runs for 205 hours, each Friday evening and all day Saturday for 17 weeks. It covers site management, business operations, Australian Standards, demolition, termites, construction, concrete etc It is NOT a trade course, there are no practical workshops, this is to become a licensed operator of a building business.
Currently doing a full (Read: Gut and rebuild) renovation, am having great fun, getting really dirty and am on a steep learning curve. Personally, I can now get up to the sixth rung on the ladder which is a major achievement, and can pull rat's nests out of walls without retching. Yeah! And yes, herding the various trades onto the site at the appropriate times is a problem, so the theory of a Critical Time Path remains a theory!!
Here are a few links which could be helpful:
http://www.shortcourses.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/
http://au.search.yahoo.com/search/anzwers?p=owner+builders&y=au --- this is simply going tp the anzwers search engine and typing in owner builders.
It is important to keep in mind that every state will be different, although the MRTFB (Multi Residential Timber Framing Code) is, I think, designed to be Australia wide.
By the way, I am not living in the properties under renovation, I intend to do 20 of these over the next five years, I have no intention of entering into a building contract with anyone to do work for them ie no third parties, these will all be trading stock, the time frames are established by me and thus I experience minimal frustration and anziety, and finally, geez mate, I'm having more fun than a barrel of monkeys!*!
And, I get to wear a check shirt, which makes it all official.
Cheers,
Kristine.
And - before I am accused of blind optomism, I would think seriously hard and long before I attempted something like this on a squeezed in on weekends between the day job, the family etc basis. The strain on relationships, the growing interest bill, the lack of rental income etc could mean that any supposed savings by Doing It Yourself would morph into an uninhabitable house and an escalating debt.
In the meantime, there are lots of practical short courses where you can learn fundamentals like repairs & maintenance, tiling, building pergolas, etc which would probably be of more real use as a landlord than as a builder.
A potted history:
Recently attended the 17.5 hours Successful Owner Building course at Holmesglen TAFE (Chadstone, Vic) (approx $375, Friday pm, Saturday and Sunday)
Enjoyed it so much I am now enrolled in the Course for Builder's Registration, with a view to obtaining the Domestic Builder's Registration (approx $1,650)
This course runs for 205 hours, each Friday evening and all day Saturday for 17 weeks. It covers site management, business operations, Australian Standards, demolition, termites, construction, concrete etc It is NOT a trade course, there are no practical workshops, this is to become a licensed operator of a building business.
Currently doing a full (Read: Gut and rebuild) renovation, am having great fun, getting really dirty and am on a steep learning curve. Personally, I can now get up to the sixth rung on the ladder which is a major achievement, and can pull rat's nests out of walls without retching. Yeah! And yes, herding the various trades onto the site at the appropriate times is a problem, so the theory of a Critical Time Path remains a theory!!
Here are a few links which could be helpful:
http://www.shortcourses.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/
http://au.search.yahoo.com/search/anzwers?p=owner+builders&y=au --- this is simply going tp the anzwers search engine and typing in owner builders.
It is important to keep in mind that every state will be different, although the MRTFB (Multi Residential Timber Framing Code) is, I think, designed to be Australia wide.
By the way, I am not living in the properties under renovation, I intend to do 20 of these over the next five years, I have no intention of entering into a building contract with anyone to do work for them ie no third parties, these will all be trading stock, the time frames are established by me and thus I experience minimal frustration and anziety, and finally, geez mate, I'm having more fun than a barrel of monkeys!*!
And, I get to wear a check shirt, which makes it all official.
Cheers,
Kristine.
And - before I am accused of blind optomism, I would think seriously hard and long before I attempted something like this on a squeezed in on weekends between the day job, the family etc basis. The strain on relationships, the growing interest bill, the lack of rental income etc could mean that any supposed savings by Doing It Yourself would morph into an uninhabitable house and an escalating debt.
In the meantime, there are lots of practical short courses where you can learn fundamentals like repairs & maintenance, tiling, building pergolas, etc which would probably be of more real use as a landlord than as a builder.