Resources

A collection of Australian and international resources to help you on your build journey

Inspiration

Australia

• Two Hands and A Tiny House: Builds really cool stuff and has a wonderful and informative YouTube channel. Currently building a two trailer tiny house.

Bathroom

• WallPanels.com Pro Grey Limestone Wall Panel: Finicky but less grout on install. Less DIY friendly than we thought but we received a $25 Bunnings voucher as a sweetener.

Cladding

• Brass and Bronze Fasteners: Where we purchased our flathead screws.
• CUTEK® Extreme CD50: The oil that we are using to make our reclaimed western red cedar sing.

Flooring

• Whittle Wax Evolution Hardwax Oil: Our flooring oil that we were especially happy with the finish.

International

• Shedsistence: Very detailed blog and video on their tiny house build.

Insulation

• A Southerly Change Trading: If we had scope we would totally use A Southerly Change Trading’s Mountain made sheep wool hybrid insulation.
• Fletcher Foam Cell Shed Liner
• Fletcher Vapastop 883 Tape

Reclaimed Material Resellers

• Memates Recycled Warehouse: New to us specialising in reclaimed materials based in Sydney, NSW.
• Recycled Building Centre: Has a great selection of windows and doors based in Sydney, NSW.
• Handymans Trading Post: The best stock of doors, double glazed window panes and other building finds based in Canberra, ACT.

Roofing and Water Management

• Metal Roofing Online: Offers a variety of products. They also have an amazing YouTube Channel Based in VIC.
• Number 1 Roofing Supplies: We bought our Velux flashing kits from here but they actually do a whole bunch of hardware stuff too.
• Roofit Online: We bought our roofing products (bar the steel sheets) here. Based in NSW.

Tools

We tried to keep our tool set as light as possible. Here is a list of all the tools we purchased:

Hand Tools and other Non-electrified Items

• Clamps of varying sizes (2nd-hand)
• Jack stands x6 (1st-hand)
• Levels of varying size and quality (1st-hand)
• Metal rulers (1st-hand)
• Protractor (never used)
• Rope: kindly donated to us from builders who were worried that our hauls in the van would not be secure (2nd-hand)
• Set square (1st-hand)
• Tie down straps (2nd-hand)
• Pop rivet gun (1st-hand)

Power Tools

• Bosch circular saw (1st Hand): Lys parents’ which had never been opened since it was purchased 20 years ago
• Makita 18v drill: from a fellow off gumtree
• Makita 18v impact driver: from a fellow of gumtree
• Makita orbital sanders: gifted from Erny’s brother (many thanks)
• Makita table saw (2nd-hand): from a fellow of gumtree
• Makita compound saw (2nd-hand): A $130 steal from Facebook marketplace
• Router (2nd-hand): from a local facebook group

We were fortunate enough to access our local Tool Library. Think of a tool library like a library for books but instead of literature, movies and audio, you hire things! The Inner West Tool Library is an amazing place to borrow tools for the week and worked perfectly for us. At the tool library we rented:

• Air compressor
• Finishing nail gun
• staple gun

Check out their wider inventory here.

We should also note that we literally borrowed all of Jason and Silvia’s tools while they were in Europe (many thanks to them - we owe you slabs of beer). Horray for handy and cool friends! ❤️

Windows

• Osmo UV Protection Oil: Top of the line finishing oil for exterior and interior uses. We are using this on our windows.
• Sikkens Cetol BLX-Pro Teak Timber Stain: The stain that we are using to protect and colour our windows.

more coming soon!