Recycled Materials

Just because something has been used before doesn’t mean it’s rubbish! Recycling materials into the build saves money, stops good products going to landfill and doesn’t require new products to be made and transported. It can take longer to source, but is worth it! Here’s a list of what we used and where we got it from.

Item	Used For	Sourced From
12 solid oregan doors	All internal room doors	Most from the original farm homestead (built 1904), some salvaged from renovations at The Exchange Hotel in Katanning.
2 windows	Kitchen and laundry windows	Salvage Yard
3 glass sliding doors	Entry, laundry and master bedroom external doors	Salvage Yard
2 ceramic bathroom sinks, 1 steel kitchen sink, 1 steel laundry trough	Kitchen, bathrooms and laundry	Salvage Yard
14 wandoo posts	Verandah posts	Has been cut from the farm 40 years ago for a shed that was never built.
Roofing iron	Part of the roof	Salvage Yard
Wandoo planks	Bathroom vanities and laundry bench tops	Original sheep yard posts and rails from the farm.
Spiral Staircase	Access to upstairs cooling tower	Gumtree website
Red Tingle planks	Kitchen countertop	Originally from the Albany Jetty, sourced from a clearing sale by a family member years ago then passed to us.
Floorboards	Floor of cooling tower room	Abandoned homestead from the neighbouring property (with permission)
Bricks (an entire truckload)	Base of strawbale walls, bathroom hobs, benchwork in kitchen / dining etc	Salvaged from the demolition of a local sports pavilion. Cleaned off old mortar onsite, which was then used as part of the rubble for the base of strawbale walls.
Jarrah lengths	Framing of entranceways into games room and lounge room	Salvage yard.
Historic doorframe with opening for above-door window	Connecting hallway to study with space for hot air flow window	Abandoned homestead from the neighbouring property (with permission).
Paving Bricks	Outdoor paths	Found via Facebook from a local with spares.
Jarrah weatherboards	Cubby house	Recycled from the original stables on the farm.
Miscellaneous items	Sheeting, treated pine, bricks	Leftovers from other building sites around Katanning and Perth (with permission)

 

David sanding back old doors for reuse in our house.

The recycled staircase in place in our new home.

A huge job! Cleaned bricks on the right, still-to-be-cleaned bricks on the left.