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Description
Everybody welcome: from solo travellers to families!
My wife Evi, me (Peter) and Ava (cutest toddler in the world) are living together with my mother in a house next to our construiction site.
We are building an ecological strawbale house in Duffel, a village in Flanders. We built a timber frame and filled the frame with strawbales. We are now looking for people we want to help with the construction tasks. You don't need any experience, we don't have any either :-). We hope to learn together with you.
We like: cooking vegetarian, living outside, learning new languages and ideas.
We have a little house (chalet) with a kitchen, small bathroom with shower and toilet, small living area and a bedroom.
Important: at the moment we don´t have warm water. So only cold water in the bathroom and kitchen. The waterheating on gas is not working. Maybe you are a plumber and can fix it 😎
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Ecological mindset and techniques.
Learning new things in construction.
Hike and cycle in the area
Historical cities within 30 minutes
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
Any help with the construction of our house is welcome. You don't need any experience.
Next things we are going to do: installing waterpipes, preparing the exterior facade to cover with lime plaster, making wooden floors, making it windproof, ...
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
French: Intermediate
Spanish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
A large caravan and a container with a kitchen en bathroom. At this moment here is only cold fresh water.
40 m² including kitchen, bathroom, living area, room and a small place for storage. You can use all our stuff inside inside: from kitchen gear towashing machine.
What else ...
Hike and cycle in the area
Historical cities within 30 minutes
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
There is enough space for the biggest campervan ever!
Can possibly accept pets
We have a cat. There's a very big garden and a field!
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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Two great people with humor and very curious to get to know the region.
We had a few dinners together, alwaus very nice.
Another really positive thing: they can do everything, very handy, they think together with you about a project. They did so much. We are very thankfull for that!
Being a part of the project of building a future home was very inspiring and I learned a lot during the time I was there!
Peter is great to work with he is calm and was very trustful to me, which I really appreciated!
I was taught… read more
I look forward to visiting again in the future. Thanks guys :)
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Two great people with humor and very curious to get to know the region.
We had a few dinners together, alwaus very nice.
Another really positive thing: they can do everything, very handy, they think together with you about a project. They did so much. We are very thankfull for that!
Being a part of the project of building a future home was very inspiring and I learned a lot during the time I was there!
Peter is great to work with he is calm and was very trustful to me, which I really appreciated!
I was taught… read more
I look forward to visiting again in the future. Thanks guys :)
