A Balinese House, from Bali?

[Rob L]

Thanks everybody,

I will post if I find someone reputable. But it sounds like Noel will be in Bali before I will. (I live in Jakarta, the LA of the archpelago.) I'm also wondering if it is possible to buy an old house, take it apart and put it back together in Puna.



Aloha,
Rob L

[leilaniguy]

It's been done Rob. The first 2 houses in Leilani Estates, right on the corner of Rte. 130 and Leilani Ave. are old singlewall redwood houses moved from Hilo in sections, then reassambled. The one on the corner has a curved island-style hip roof, several big rooms, high ceilings, malachite tile floors. It's a really nice old home.



Edited by - leilaniguy on 07/17/2007 22:42:55

[PunaLover]

don't know if you guys are still lookin into this but Tom Canton here in HPP used to ship in Bali homes in containers, wood for floors too. If you are still lookin in to this I'll ask him if ya want.
He used to have the Teak Bali store in Hilo.

KEEP PUNA RURAL

[csgray]

I really like the look of the Bali houses too, BUT I recently heard a nightmare story from a couple whose house was auctioned of at the dock in Honolulu because the Balinese shipping agent they had paid to oversee handling the shipment (this is almost never handled by the house supplier) went belly up while their house was between Bali and Hawaii. They had paid in full once the house was completed and two years later are still trying to get either their house or their money back. What a nightmare!

I would be scared to do this mostly because of international shipping issues, not Hawaii permitting issues. What happens if the container with your house in it is one of the containers which occasionally wash overboard? When I lived in Oregon the OSU marine scientists were tracking currents for over 3 years by where Nikes ended up after a container went overboard!

Is there anyone on the board who knows how the importing part of the process is supposed to work for the Bali houses?

carol

[Kelena]

Bali Built Homes is a company (fairly new) on Kauai that imports these homes. http://www.balibuilt.com/