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media type="custom" key="20634163" big question: How was housing unique in Australia during colonisation?

smaller questions:

What different types of cottage design were there? What types of materials were used? What types of tools did the british use to build? How were bricks made?

How will I present my product: I will present my product by making a model of a house and have an information report

was a brick maker by trade And brick making equipment was brought along. Sydney's first bricks were made using a quick and rough version of traditional english methods. Convicts pounded the clay into a corse powder with logs,using natural depressions in rocks. water was added,and bare footed convicts walked though the sticky mess,witch was left there for day before being used. || <span style="color: #0091ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">research on on the materials used to make houses, <span style="color: #0091ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">saws and more. || <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">brought from england was to soft for the wood in Australia and the wood rotted on the ships <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">from the salty water and the mettle rusted from the salt so when the convicts cut dow the <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">wood would snap from the hard wood in Australia such as the gumtree but some tools <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">were a success and cut down more trees to make houses and buildings.The wood was <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">used for many things such as making moulds,boats and houses but Australia lost all the <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">cabbage trees because the british cut to many down and because the axes didn't work <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">and snapped the british resorted to gun powder. || <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">research on cottage designs || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">roof:roof thatched from reeds cut from near by bays.Thatching was placed <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">on battens which were waste bits from milling.
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 * <span style="color: #0091ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">20/8/12 || <span style="color: #0091ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Learnt about brick making || <span style="color: #0091ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">In april 1788,good clay was discovered for brick making. One convict James bloods worth,
 * <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">21/8/12 || <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">learnt about materials || <span style="color: #a99493; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">The british brought tools with them but it soon turned into a problem,because the wood they
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">22/8/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">learnt about cottage design || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">simple cottage design

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Windows: windows had no glass just wattle stick lattice.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Fireplaces: thick mud fireplaces were built on sandstone berths. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Chimneys were like the walls but with a thicker layer <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">of mud inside.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Walls: the whole frame was covered inside and out with mud, applied <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">with spades and smoothed with a trowel finally a thin coat of pipe clay <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">(abundant at the near by tidal flats ) or lime wash (made by burning <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">oyster shells collected by female convicts) kept the rain out.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Posts: 150 x 150mm corner posts were set 900mm into the ground <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">and grooved to house the ends of thin wattle sticks. Smaller posts, <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">every 900mm were also set into the ground and grooved,walls were <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">about 2.1m high. || <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">learn more about cottage design ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 23/8/12 || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> learnt about cottage design || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> better cottage design

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">roof:roofs were made of timber shingles split from cabbage-trees or she-oak timber. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> They were fixed on batters with wooden pegs.Making wooden pegs was <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> another job for the woman convicts.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">posts:posts were still set in ground at each corners.Top plates were now grooved a ground <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> plate was also grooved and laid on the ground to.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">walls:vertical slabs of wood made the walls,there top and bottom ends were inserted in grooved <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> plates. The cracks were filled with mud.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">door: door with leather bingles,1.8 meters or less high.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">chimney:chimneys were now brick or stone.The local stone was soft and easy to cut.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">fencing:fencing was made by the drop log method ,logs with tapered ends were droped <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> in between grooved posts. the cracks were filled withe mud. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">start on product ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 25/8/12 || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> learnt about tools || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tools

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 700 spades <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 700 shovels <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 2100 hoes <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 700 axes and 700 spare handles <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 747000 nails <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 10 sets of coopers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 40 wheel burrows <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 12 ploughs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 30 grindstones <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*6 carts <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 4 timbers - carriages <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 14 fishing nets <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 80 carpenters <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 20 shipwrights <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">* 700 hatches

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The British ran into problems straight away because the tools rusted and rotted from the <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">salty air on the boats, so when the convicts went to go cut down a tree the wood would <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">snap because it was to soft so the British resorted to gun powder. || work on prduct ||