Just over 6 weeks in Thailand and it flew by and we are no sooner on our bus ride to Phuket for our Malaysian Airline flights direct to Adelaide. Plus a chance for us to catch up with Sue's daughter.
Playing the TOURIST complete with 'T' Shirt!!
More on our next BLOG - mean while it's Part 02 of 'Our House without WHEELS'
Thanks to Margaret and Ashley for some progress photo's during our foray in Thailand - included in Part 01.
Well progress has been made, but still at least 4 to 6 weeks away from completion
Painting in _____
progress _ with
tiling to follow
tidy up
Decking to be installed
tidy with plans to add more decking between car port and house.
This looks like the GO!
and with 40 meters required the price is right
Time to just install the Brushguard to both sides of the down pipes
Time to leave them to it - Gone FISHING!
Seven weeks to the day - and the construction key still works - hand over scheduled for 1330hrs tomorrow 23rd. Meanwhile we get to checkout our new house soon to be our home without WHEELS!!
Wow!!
Exceptional
It's just the right size - now the fun starts - furniture!
Sort out the plumbing for the washing machine
Good to go!!
Hand over - but alas __
We all missed it - when we departed there was a big hole here for what I assumed would be big enough for the _______
DOUBLE cavity sliding doors to the 3rd bed room / office. As the lads were still onsite completing the decking and within 10 minutes the chippy was into the remedial corrections
'Jesse' - Shepperd seniors dog being cared for by son Craig
Wow! now that's a hole - and will still only handle 720mm cavity sliders
Framed up ____
Paneled up____
Induction cook ware
table ware
glass cook ware - whats's in the caravan stays in the caravan
- except in a cooking emergency
Sorting out Robo-maid
Decking completed
BBQ takes pride of place!
What a pleasure to be almost moved in!
Meanwhile progress being made on the external aspects
Down pipes to be relocated inside decking with square PVC our neighbour Nevile had laying around
Tree root Lincoln Tree control were supposed to grind out before the house went up.
Koto, keeping and eye on yard working progress
Checking if I have enough pavers to at least pave from the house corner past the gas cylinders
Our 1st visitors - Nev and Margaret our neighbours
Work still in progress
Plastering all done__
Painting all done, and what a difference it makes ___
All done - bar the electrical plug
Fog rolling in
All cleared by 0900hrs and a crystal clear day and vibrant blue's and green's
Morning walk to the park over looking Boston Bay and the town
Checking out the washing machine - PUSH HERE!!
Kitchen bench damaged in transit ___
Now one of my shed work benches - BEAUTY
View from 6 Grace Avenue - Lincoln Heights
One of many sun rises from our veranda
Nev. saving his knees and making sure no one runs him over whilst repairing his drive way paving
New tool = OZITO cordless jig saw - Awesome power and ripped thru the plastic in a jiffy.
Wow! Nev's upgraded his lawn mower - Ah! it's the councils machine at work.
Plumber on site completing a couple of tie in's - rain water to the shed, grey water from the shed, town water to the utility basin.
It's not all work and no play - visit Anthony's - Swift Water Oyster Farm
- Coffin Bay
Well Anthony was working, whilst _____
Rylie and Sue landed some King George Whiting
Anthony dropped a bag of oyster into our bucket - beauty states Sue!
Okay back to WORK!!
Action plan - yep they will fit with a minimum of cutting
Later
Floors cleaned after the painter etc. ready for furniture
Yallanda Flat show - rose - Perfect Moment for our house move-in
A bit of TLC
It's furniture day, all from ______
Thanks Coast and Country Furniture - great service
Perfect fit!
Big truck for our___
55" TV
Work in progress___
Yep! the timber logs ex - garden plot will fit
It's just getting them into place
Just as well we had a Chiro appointment soon after this lot to put all the creaky bit's back in place.
My supervisor checking out progress
Getting it done!
Our new fridge 1st item - thanks Anthony
Getting the furniture in place
No clutter - YET!!
One more sleep and we MOVE-IN!!
And the auspicious day has arrived
Room, and rooms and more room to spread ourselves out
Wrapped with the big KITCHEN!!
Master bedroom with___
Walk in robe and ______
En-suite
Laundry / mud room our entrance
Sue with her cats
Pride of place
Local artist - Mandy Cabot - Yallanda Flat
Light fittings to be sorted
Micro-wave instructions - plus all the other functions a 4 system combi unit
Our 1st ship entering Boston Bay
An oil tanker
Fish cakes and salad for tea, followed by
chocolate self saucing pudding and ice cream – stove and oven a dream to use, a
few more sessions and we will have it mastered – ceramic induction cook top is magic.
Now to test the oven in the Micro-wave / combi oven
Fresh bread
Fine tune the walk in robe
Pre-planned clothes line location - good to go, with stainless steel coach screw, thanks to Craig for the extra studs and mud map of there location
Door stop slice, it's so FRESH
Holding up so far!
More hooks in the mud room
Colour coding the tank and pipes
ex -80 series door trim, soft padding for the gutter edge
Managed to relocate the tap with out breaking the copper pipe. This will permit installing the hose reel on the face of the post and reticulation timer out of the weather
Sue's Pad Thai - Yum!!
Work to begin on the fence renewal and extension, nails removed = 162, with tech screw now holding the sheets until Monday
Another baking day - whole wheat bread and banana bread
Lost canary landed on our veranda
Charging Robo-Maid____
All good to go Robo-Maid
All systems go, Duncan delivered timber and sheeting with
me getting stuck into ____________,
Removing the old sheeting - all done within the hour
Extension post in place and top rail installed
Progress is being made
Perfect height overall
Mud room key rack - ex _____
Puckridge Park - disposing of park rubbish and this laying on top of some trash along with heaps of other stuff - referenced in a previous blog.
Sheeting going up
Supervisor - Sue checking out our progress
Lyn's clothes line fully installed and functional
Simple and functional!!
Lucky last__
What a difference already - capping yet to be added
Mean while progress has been made in between helping Duncan
Now Sue can smell the roses in bare feet
The basin tap's not coming off the new sheeting any time soon!!
Sue cleaned up the lamp stand that has been in my trunk
since 1977 ex- Bangladesh. Mr Google - vinegar and salt, or baking soda
Fence capping done, fish cleaning station done, hose reel install done
2nd fatality short cutting the closed BBQ window
Planting out our rose - Perfect Moment - retic pipe with timer has been laid and works well. As we are off camping and fishing. If we don't go we won't go!
Returning from our 10 day get away in the Lincoln National Park - yet another BLOG
Returning from our 10 day get away in the Lincoln National Park - yet another BLOG
Our Giamar roller tilt shutters have arrived - 3 days from Melbourne. Installer arriving on Sunday for a Monday morning start
and we are into it!
Lay out all the components at respective window / door
Rene in action
1st one done, Rene instructing local installer
Meanwhile I salvaged all the grate timber and screws from the roller shutter crate
Work sure progress at a pace
All but the electrics to connect up by 1300hrs day 2.
Some fine tune and paint touch up
Took Rene for a quick local tour - Fisheries Bay - wow! it's been a few years I climb down these cliffs - what's this Right Point stair access
No surf today - a magic beach
Our installer - a perfect match for the job as he made the shutters and was proud of his work, being third generation in the shutter business
All done and few last minute tips - don't get a chair of pot plant stuck under the shutter coming down.
House warming family and friends, cooked up our Black Jew ex-King Ash Bay and locally caught King George Whiting - the photo's below tell the story -
DIG IN FLOKS!!
Sue's Thai Musa Mun Curry was popular for these Aussie tender mouths
Save space folks for ________
Mini Cheese Cake and Match-sticks _ followed by ____
Trifle - Thanks to Teresa we all topped up to the limit!!
Extra long walk tomorrow required
Our 1st bloom since planting out Perfect Moment
We have a local family of Kookaburra
The laundry cupboard is a perfect fit for my brewing barrel - 1st STOUT and will be ready when we return from holidays in Thailand
Dead timber removal from our neighbours tree
Crikey that much!!
Solar panel cleaning - up to 3 - 6% better performance with clean panels.
THAT'S IT FOLKS - I will let the
photo's tell the story from here!!
Okay - enough is enough - Shutters open, closed from all angles - they are magic, and have really dressed up our home.
All locked and off on holidays to THAILAND!!
All locked and off on holidays to THAILAND!!
