Day 111 - 117
The deck goes on, the doors and windows too more...
Day 111 - 117
The week of the weatherboards, and the roof goes on (well, mostly) more...
Day 104 - 110
There is a lot more to putting the rafters and other roofy bits in place than your average layman (i.e. me) would expect - this week was pretty much spent getting the roof bits ready for the roofing guys who are due next week! more...
Day 97 - 103
The roof is off - and we're just hoping that it'll go on again during this week, a few delays with the pre-nail but it's been well resolved so click the link and see what's happenning! more...
Day 90 - 96
The walls are up - the walls are up!! The prenail which arrived at the end of last week has gone up so the extension now has some shape - it's looking sweeeet more...
Day 13 - 89
Oh look - HEAPS has happened, check out the side links
Day 6 - 12
This week sees the demise of our chimney, the electrical work going in and a biiiig trench getting dug for the new plumbing. more...
Day 1 - 5
We're away! The builders started this week and we've already got a new front door, and ensuite with a raised cieling and level floors, and a moved window, but wait, there's more...
October 2004 - Update
Again, I've fallen behind in keeping the site updated, it's getting harder and harder to do 'work' around here which doesn't directly involve hammers, pry-bars and other implements of destruction, let alone get some quiet time to spend on a PC to tap out an update or keep current with my reading. Ahh, how I look forward to the office being completed and some definate work area! more...
August 2004 - Final Plans
It's been a long time between updates, but in the offline world, we've been pretty busy... Read on for details of the planning (and re-planning, and editing, and changing and re-planning once again) process more...
December 2003 - The Interior
Wow - the inside of the house is going to be BRILLIANT! more...
With the help of a couple of long weekends I finally knuckle down and tick off the final visible side of the house (we're ignoring the west side of the house until next summer J ) more... 25/02/2002 - The Back Fence
You see, here's the thing… it sounded like a simple job to build a fence to contain the puppies Dennis & Helen and myself were planning to get - I mean, how much work is it to stick some posts in the ground, attach some rails and wack some pailings onto them… The fence cost just over $2700 in materials, 5 weekends and 3 days of a 'holiday', a broken finger (which I still have), a completely rational fear of nasty smelling compost (which Dennis still has) and an almost maniacal delight in using a circular saw (which we all hope Helen will overcome). more... 23/12/2000 - Painting Mission #1 - The Rear/North Elevation
Paint the house - yeah three words… but, like an elephant after a dodgy curry, it's one heck of a big job! more... 03/06/2000 - Project Queens Greens II - Insulation Installation
Well, this year Queens Birthday was cold and wet and, without 'she-who-will-not-be-named' and her Mother living with me any longer I figured that I could escape landscaping the property and decided to install some Pink Batts instead. more... 09/12/2000 - 16/12/2000 - Replacing the back gate
The old fence had had it's days in the sun, in fact it had so many days in the sun that the only thing holding it together was a layer of crusty old paint, some well intentioned lichen and a particularly stable gravitational pull. more... 16/10/1999 - The Inaugural Hedge Trim
The students in the flat up at 199 made the tatical blunder of partying noisely until 0400 so, after allowing the clock to tick over to 0900 so as to NOT upset the other neighbors we cranked up the hedge trimmer and went to work. more... 24/07/1999 - Digging the Drive & Building the Garden Beds
Digging the driveway and building the garden beds sounded like an easy(ish) task - especially with all the assistance promised more...