She’s Up!!!!!
Massive day — our little cottage is about 4m higher than it was this morning!
Half a dozen shirtless blokes, a massive jenga kit, bit of lube for a sideways shove (by hand!) & half a dozen car jacks…what could possibly go wrong?!
The roof came off today, the roof came off today, high ho the fibro’s gone, the roof came off today!
We had a fibro roof, yes of the asbestos variety. It was filthy, looked dreadful, and was probably not the best for us, nor our garden with the rainwater running off it.
As we start sweltering in the rental as the temperature starts getting hotter and our house keeps being empty, tempers were a little on the boil last week. We lost the whole week’s worth of build time because a piece of paper sat on the desk of someone at the bank. Enough said.
So excited to ride past the house — they put the framing up for the new upstairs walls! But — as I rode past I think the whole neighbourhood heard me shout “Noooooooo!” as my heart sank to the tarmac. Thankfully the boys have already gone home for the day! (After last week’s embarrassing incident…
One of the beautiful things about old Queensland homes is that they were built out of local timber, and they ran these gorgeous hardwood floor boards from one end of the house to the other in gorgeous straight runs of gorgeous craftsmanship. Ours are unusually skinny, hugely varied in…
Not sure if I’ve posted this already or but here’s the link to the YouTube channel with Andy’s time lapse camera videos. A new one will go up each week (after Andy has snuck past the construction fence to climb a tree, plug in his laptop, download the images, stitch…
I know it’s early days, but at this point, I love our builder! His enthusiasm for our project is almost as big as mine (and you can guess how bouncy that is!), and determination to get it finished as quickly as possible is incredibly reassuring, given we’re now on the countdown to Christmas.
We moved out in to the rental mid July. Finances had come back from the accountant, application was in with the bank, we know we can service the loan, builder was almost ready, it’s going to take us a few weeks to move in — let’s do this thing!
We thought we could stay in as they lifted the house — technically it’s possible. Obviously on the actual day of the lift we’d have to be out, but we wouldn't have to empty the house, just pack away the really fragile stuff. But, as the project got bigger, a couple of stages turned in to…
Right I’ve risked life and limb to set up a camera on a palm tree in the back yard. There is not much to see yet but I’ll pop up a new one each week.
Here is the channel on YouTube