11th April 2012

11^th April 2012

Weather wise we had the best Easter I can remember for many years, the days have been quite warm and sunny with very little wind really good for picnickers and campers and judging by the TV reports beaches have been getting a hammering from people enjoying the beautiful spell, it is certainly different from the usual Easter full moon weather of either rain or strong winds or both, let’s hope it lasts.

Re: the house we didn’t get a roof on by Easter I’m not sure why but I believe there is still a little preparation to complete. Scaffolding has been erected all around the house for safety and no doubt a crane will arrive sometime next week to unload and lift roof sheeting into place.

            Plumbing is currently being installed so we now have a network of different coloured and sizes of pipes running through the place and once again the workmanship is neat and tidy.  Rainwater from our underground tank is fed to the toilets and laundry, this pipework is green whereas the rest is a dark coloured synthetic pipe made in Germany, not poly pipe.

Chippies are currently drilling holes every where and threading massive long bolts through the walls and down to the concrete where it is drilled and the bolts glued in.

The window rep came on Tuesday morning and we spent a couple of hours doing the final location and selection of windows (there goes the budget again) and the roofers arrived this afternoon and started preparing for the roof installation. Colourbond battens have now been fixed in place and specially made oversized facias are being fixed also so roofing this week looks like a reality at this stage.

Winter came this morning in the guise of a westerly wind, I think it was a few degrees below average all day although nice and sunny, yesterday it was a few degrees above average, no wonder we all get colds this time of the year.

Catcha.