This job here was actually our first project that we did through the Resilient Homes Fund, and there are lots of things I learned along the way, but one of the things that I think stands out would have been the quote example done by the Resilient Homes Fund.
It's online there.
Try and use those tools that the Resilient Homes Fund gives you.
Try and work with them.
It's worth learning.
You should get a lot out of it using the examples.
When trying to come up with the scope of works with the homeowner,
I'd recommend using the guidelines that give you an idea of what the homeowner is eligible for under the Fund.
For example, like raising hot water systems and air-conditioning units.
But you don't have to stick exactly to those guidelines.
You can as a builder come up with your own ideas as well, like we've done with the stairs on this job.
I think in the guidelines they might recommend that there's no pine to be used, which is totally right.
But they're recommending F-17 hardwood to be used on the stairs.
Whereas we've taken all the timber completely out of the stairs and come up with the design where we've had a steel frame fabricated and then taken it in to get hot dip galvanised.
So there'll never be a rust issue with that.
Then we've gone on to use open profile aluminium threads and for the landings as well, along with the powder-coated aluminium handrail.
Basically, if this property does get inundated again with flood water, when that flood water recedes, it'll be a matter of simply getting a pressure cleaner out here, pressure cleaning off the stairs and they're good to go again.
And I, I think that's a lot about what this program's about is making these homes resilient.
And that's a good example of working with the Resilient Homes Fund as a builder to come up with more resilient ideas.