15th July
We have a front wall albeit un-finished but
it’s up at least, I got the builder to extend it up towards the side of the
house on the entry side rather than have a metal colour-bond fence near the
front and then it had to be raised several rows higher than planned to make it
look right (another arm and a leg, seems to be the going rate). The window
people have been here twice to fix the leaky corner window and ended up
removing the glass and redoing the seals. Apparently they all feel it’s ok now
as the plasterer has been and repaired the plasterwork that was damaged when inspecting
the leak area, he also finished putting up cornices in the garage and
downstairs bathroom where I requested another arm and a leg change that
necessitated removal of the cornice. When all the plasterwork was originally
installed they actually ran out of cornice, but it’s all done now, the
plasterer actually came back today Sunday to do the finishing off sanding.
Painters came early last week and refused
to start as the house hadn’t been prepared properly, that included the
un-finished plastering and protective plastic coverings that are taped down to
all the timber and tiled floors. The painters came back after a couple of days
and started their pre-painting preparations, there’s obviously a lot more to a
good paint job than just whacking a bit of paint around. Even so the tiler
hasn’t completely finished inside, he finished the bulk of the tiling including
grouting last Tuesday and I haven’t seen him since and the walk in pantry
behind the kitchen has to have a tiled splash back so I would have thought this
needed to be done before painting. Oh well tomorrow’s another day.
As mentioned in my previous post, the
electrician came and installed a large meter box into the front wall so the
meter can be read without coming onto the property and a connection request has
been lodged with the power service provider, be interesting to see how long
that takes.
I forgot to mention, it hasn’t stopped
raining since my last posting it is almost the wettest winter period in 38
years.
A few posts ago I mentioned about having
the power steering pump overhauled after the vehicle service people had not
diagnosed and sorted a problem with it. Well last Thursday Nancy drove the 1.5
kls to Manly village for some bread rolls, she seemed an awfully long time,
which is quite normal, and to my surprise all of a sudden I saw her get out of
a strange 4WD and walk across the road to our cottage and then the 4WD drove
off. Needless to say I raced down the back steps to meet her thinking she must
have had an accident - and I was very concerned about the car. It turned out
when she attempted to move out of the shop’s car park the power steering packed
up and she couldn’t turn the steering wheel, some young fellow helped re-park
the car and gave her a lift home which was very nice of him. To add injury to
insult, the guy had a huskie puppy in his 4WD that took a liking to the smell
of fresh bread rolls and poor old Nancy had to fight it off all the way home,
she squashed the rolls flat trying to protect them and ended up with a nice old
puncture wound to her finger that bled like hell caused by a sharp puppy tooth.
RACQ took the Landcruiser on a truck to the
power steering people, it turned out an inline filter they had installed had
split open and all the oil pumped out, they have replaced it all with a
stronger unit and all is well, no charge of course just inconvenience, a
punctured finger and flattened bread rolls.
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| We have a bit more security now |
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| The un-finished wall |
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| The letterbox position that needed such a lot of decision making |
