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Quickbuild house sells for $193,000

Quickbuild house sells for $193,000

The Caroline Bay Aquatic Centre is $193,000 better off today after a Quickbuild house, built from the ground up in just 36 hours over the weekend, sold at auction on-site on Sunday.

The buyer, from the Timaru District, wishes to remain anonymous.

Bidding started at $150,000 and rose in $5000 lots and then in $1000 lots. The final bid of $193,000 was accepted.

The Quickbuild was the Caroline Bay Aquatic Supporters Club’s major public fundraising project for the aquatic centre and brought together tradespeople from Ashburton to Oamaru in a show of collective community goodwill and donations of time and materials that Timaru Mayor Janie Annear yesterday (Sunday September 18) described as “humbling”.

Mrs Annear said she was absolutely overwhelmed with the amount of work that had gone into the project.

Teams of builders operating in relays from 1pm on Friday on the Evans Street site opposite Grants Road coaxed the three-bedroomed house into being in a process that began on simple steel foundation beams. By midnight the house was being roofed. Then gib-boarding and stopping gave way to joinery and electrical fittings including a heat pump and kitchen whiteware. Carpets were laid the following afternoon.

Tradespeople from professional associations representing builders, plumbers, painters and electricians were scheduled into the project in military-like precision from 1pm on Friday.

Painters came from Ashburton, builders from Waimate and Fairlie, and plumbers from Waimate. They joined scores of local tradespeople on a project that had been months in the planning.

Chairman of the Aquatic Supporters Club Damon Odey told the crowd assembled for the auction that the house was the result of a huge district-wide team effort.

“Thank you so much to everyone involved,” Mr Odey said.

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