{"id":295635,"date":"2021-11-14T04:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=295635"},"modified":"2021-11-14T04:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T04:25:18","slug":"the-block-couple-go-off-grid-and-build-their-forever-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=295635","title":{"rendered":"The Block couple go off-grid and build their &apos;forever home&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"> couple\u00a0Kerrie Charter and Spence Thomson have gone completely off-grid and away from civilisation to build their &#8216;forever home&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rgbstock.com\/cache1nH95T\/users\/s\/su\/sundstrom\/600\/mibUGpe.jpg\" style=\"max-width:450px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kerrie and Spence, who competed on the 2018 season of The Block, are building their property on 120 acres of remote land in rural Victoria.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rgbimg.com\/cache1zKgTZ\/users\/x\/xy\/xymonau\/600\/pqykz3i.jpg\" style=\"max-width:420px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The location and design of the home means the reality TV couple will not incur any electricity, water or gas bills in their new lifestyle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"moduleFull mol-video\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-fdb21477e6c2f4ab\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Away from civilisation: Former The Block couple go off-grid in and build their 'forever home' in rural Victoria with no electricity, water or gas bills\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Away from civilisation: Former The Block couple go off-grid in and build their &#8216;forever home&#8217; in rural Victoria with no electricity, water or gas bills<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;This is our own slice of heaven,&#8217; Ms Charter told  reporter Martin King during a tour of the property,  <a href=\"http:\/\/wycieczkadolwowa.pl\/\">http:\/\/wycieczkadolwowa.pl\/<\/a> which her partner described as the &#8216;next big thing&#8217;.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div data-track-module=\"am-related_carousel^related_carousel\" data-track-selector=\".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])\" data-dm-rotator-rotate=\"false\" data-track-pos=\"static\" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=\"\" data-dm-rotator-auto-init=\"\" id=\"p-20\" class=\"related-carousel with-fb-or-tw tvshowbiz\" data-dm-rotator-active-class=\"active\" data-dm-rotator-page-count=\"1.0\" data-dm-social-article-auto-init=\"\" data-dm-rotator-page-size=\"1\">\n<div class=\"rotator bdrcc\">\n<div class=\"rotator-title\">\n<h2>RELATED ARTICLES<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rotator-pages link-xocc\">\n<li class=\"rotator-prev\"><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li class=\"rotator-next\"><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>     <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><b>                <\/p>\n<div class=\"fb\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><h2>Share this article<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"big-share\"><span class=\"wai\">Share<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Thomson works as a carpenter by trade and told King that he&#8217;s been building for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We&#8217;ve built before, we&#8217;ve built quite a lot before. I&#8217;ve been building for 30 something years, but we&#8217;ve never built off-grid,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" style=\"height: auto\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-662d630060bf5b0c\" height=\"685\" width=\"634\" alt=\"'This is our own slice of heaven': The reality TV couple,\u00a0who competed on the 2018 season of The Block, are building their 'forever home'\u00a0on 120 acres of remote land in rural Victoria\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">&#8216;This is our own slice of heaven&#8217;: The reality TV couple,\u00a0who competed on the 2018 season of The Block, are building their &#8216;forever home&#8217;\u00a0on 120 acres of remote land in rural Victoria<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We&#8217;ve never been on this size land. We&#8217;ve never collected our own rainwater and harvested power from the sun. It&#8217;s quite exciting.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The property features solar panels on the rooftops and three-phase solar inverters, held in a battery room, to power the home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It&#8217;s estimated the couple are saving up to $10,000 a year on utility bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-4465a1c101b9628a\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Savings:\u00a0IThe property features solar panels on the rooftops and three-phase solar invertert's estimated the couple are saving up to $10,000 a year on utility bills\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/>  <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Savings:\u00a0The property features solar panels and three-phase solar inverters for power and collects rainwater for water supply. It&#8217;s estimated the couple are saving up to $10,000 a year on utility bills<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kerrie and Spence&#8217;s new home is located in the rural town of Mia Mia, 120 kilometres north of Melbourne in central Victoria, which they moved to from their previous home in the Barossa Valley earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The reality TV couple explained their main motivation to go off-grid and build their &#8216;freedom home&#8217; came down to economic and environmental reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We will never get utility bills again, and we&#8217;re doing our bit for the environment,&#8217; Kerrie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The pair also revealed they they have a &#8216;greener vision&#8217; for their home as they plan to plant\u00a05000 trees across the surrounding property.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p>  <img id=\"i-a9cb161a73637c7e\" height=\"359\" width=\"634\" alt=\"'We will never get utility bills again, and we're doing our bit for the environment':\u00a0The couple built the 'freedom home' for economic and environmental reasons. 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