9th June 2012
Another week passed, I don’t know if that’s
good because we get nearer to house completion or not so good because we are
another week older.
The house progresses and they are on the
downhill run, renderers came and finished off areas not previously completed
due to bad weather, and the painters managed to complete the top half of the
house with two coats. Scaffolding was taken down on Thursday so we can see what
the house really looks like. Although rain was forecast for Thursday and Friday
it held off and the painters were able to finish the bulk of the downstairs
outside.
Being a long weekend here, rain was
forecast for Thursday through to at least the middle of next week but so far so
good, gloomy though it may be at least the rain has passed us by and even the
Met forecast has been changed to “rain at times”, now where we are that will be
either piddling down or nothing at all.
Early in the week cabinet makers came and
started to install what they could on the ground floor, upstairs will be
completed once the timber flooring is down. Wednesday, timber flooring arrived
and another husband and wife team came to lay it all, that took them through
until Friday pm, apparently they live at Maroochydore on the Sunshine coast,
that’s normally an hour and a half’s travel time but on Friday they may have
got caught up in the usual long weekend mad dash up the coast, nice after a
tiring days work. The flooring looks lovely and will look fabulous once it is
sanded and polished, which of course will be one of the last jobs to be done.
Friday morning yet another supplier met us onsite to discuss built in cupboards
such as wardrobes etc, make suggestions and find out what we wanted, with self-preservation
in mind I KEPT RIGHT OUT OF IT.
Having started this earlier, the weather
has now improved no end, the sun is out and it is quite warm and pleasant.
Yesterday (Friday), We had the Toyota’s
steering pump overhauled, for some time now the power steering has been
groaning worse than me especially when the oil was cold. In an earlier post (29th
May) I mentioned about it and how air was getting into the system, I went to a
lot of trouble to fit better hose clips all round but unfortunately it didn’t
do the trick so next thing was to have the pump overhauled and resealed. It
wasn’t until I picked the car up after repairs that I realised just how noisy
it had been, the difference is amazing (and just another $540+ !!! Grows on
trees doesn’t it? Apparently the guys couldn’t believe how dirty the steering
oil was and said it was full of red dust, well it’s been over 12 months since
we were on any dirt roads. For future protection they completely flushed the
system and installed an inline filter containing a magnet that should not only
keep the oil clean but remove any minute particles of metal that may occur
through normal wear, it appears they have done a good job and their work comes
with a two-year warranty. Interestingly the vehicle mileage is 164,000 kls. A
couple of months ago at 160,000 kls the vehicle spent 2 days in a Toyota
dealers workshop to carry out the substantial 160,000kls service and I asked
them to check the steering because of the groaning noise then, when I picked
the car up they told me the steering was ok, obviously never looked at it. So
where do you go for a service with the confidence that it will be carried out
satisfactorily?
This has run over into Sunday and guess
what – it is piddling down, cold and bleak.
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| The house appearing as the scaffolding comes down. |
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| Getting there |
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| Amazing the amount of scaffolding that was used |
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| Premium Blackbutt |
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| A good coating of fibreglass waterproofing over the front deck area |
Nigel, love your blog, house looking good, I have sent comments before BUT think i've cracked it this time and read how to do it....I guess you know we are off on med cruise with P&D and M&R....if you 2 come it will be complete mates cruise? what do you think? Hope you 2 are ok and the "Kids" love n hugs from a chilly wet UK xx
ReplyDeleteHi great to hear from you, yes looks like you have got the commenting right. We would love to meet up with you all but not good timing. We will be shifting into our new house in a couple of months and will need a bit of time to get organised to allow us to start travelling again with the van. My brother and his wife are coming over from NZ around that time also,staying up the North Coast, I think we will be pushed to catch up with them even. O/seas travel will have to wait until we are back from traipsing around Aussie. Weather has finally turned nice and typical for Qld winter we have had heaps of that wet stuff. Keep in touch and regards to all.
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