Tiled!!

Firstly, go Here and see what Luke says about some people he has been interacting with, last week.

I TOTALLY agree. One of my biggest "things", annoyances, is people whose conversation is totally self-centred. People whose stories are almost always volunteered without prompting. Sometimes it feel like they don't really need you there. I'm not just an audience, folks. I might not be an extroverted person, but I sometimes like participating in two-way conversation. By all means, I might be interested in you and your life, but allow me the courtesy of asking about you? And sometimes you might return the favour?

I've been meaning to post this sentiment for yonks.

And now for something completely different.

Tiling in bathroom is finished. Check it out, the first ones are before the grout and finishing...

bathroom

Couple more shots of the bathroom: wetsealer dude did the glassing and laid the angle in the doorway and outside of the shower, and the tiler put in the screed.

House almost done?

Right. Update then, hey? Firstly, has no-one picked up the total lack of proofing in my last post? No? K then.

Uh, was kitchen last time, hey? Well, since then, I have nailed under-tile sheet to the floor in the bathroom and twalette (nails every 150mm), finalised the locations for electrics in the bathroom, mounted the heater/light/extractor vent tube. (Tricky, and satisfying.) Fitted the last of the ceiling in the bathroom (by myself!), so we're all done with the panel-lifter. Wanna buy a panel-lifter?
Fitted the bath:cut rebates in the studs to suit, mounted battens to support the rim, built a frame to support the outer side of the bath, and the hob (shelf) at the end.

Fitted the villa-board walls in the bathroom (nails every 150mm on every stud). Discovered that as a carpenter, I'm quite an engineer!! Cut the villa-board to fit around the bath frame. I had been using a chisel (sharpened on my bench grinder, nice!!) to score the under-tile sheeting to break it, and fine cuts with the wood saw. However, villa-board seems to be a different kettle of fish. Dulled the blade in double-quick time. Wore the corner off the chisel too. Quick trip past bunny's to mister10 for their villa-chomper (25, rather than 90 at bunny's..), and the right tool for the job- amazing. So yeah, villa-board everywhere.

Alan he plasterer cam by and set all our plaster-board, and mounted the cornices, and didn't he do a great joeorb!! Now it looks like almost a proper house!

Late last week the wet-sealer (thanks Brenton for the number) came, and sealed up the bathroom. All fibre-glass-like. Looks good tho.

Saturday we collected the tiles (man, that weighed the car down... Dunno how much they weigh, but ... carrying them all upstairs yesterday wore me down...) and carried on to the paint store. I ... um, they're all the same, aren't they? the colours, i mean. Like, all those made-up names from some totally other world... meh, this one has more yellow, and this one has more blue, and they're all the blinking same!! No, maybe we'll just get a half-strength for the walls and a quarter on the ceilings... or ... blokes don't have enough cones for this sort of a task...

And then this evening our tiler came by (thanks Matty for the number) and laid the floor-base. Hopefully there'll be a fully tiled bathroom and twalette by the end of Sunday.

And then of course, there's the painting, and the floors to think about. Final plumbing fit-off, and final electrical fit-off. Skirting and architraves. Doors. Nothing really... Maybe we'll be upstairs with 8 weeks? Anyone want to run a book? Or a pool? Or whatever it is that you run?

Um, photos? Maybe tomorrow night?

Amazing Bureaucracy

As of 10 minutes ago, I am the MOST impressed as I ever have been with respect to any given bureaucracy. (MAN, how hard is it to sepll THAT word??)

I paid my vehicle registration for both car and bike last week. (Don't have them organised to be concurrent or purple, it just happens that way...) I paid them online.

I got ONE envelope today, containing BOTH rego slips, and nothing else!! No advertising, to superfluous letters saying i've changed CTP angencies (which I had, in both...) or anything. Unbelievable.

But very good. Everyone else, GET THE MESSAGE!!

Kitchen Y'all!

We had the kitchen installed yesterday, and boy am I glad we paid someone to do it!! this fella was an expert, had all the tools, and heaps of experience, but it still took him a 13 hour day, working like a navvy, to get it done!

I would have been banging my head against the wall for 3 months, I reckon. Anyhow, it's in, with the exception of the sink (wrong handing supplied) and stove/oven (electrical requirements...)

Checkit, yo. (oh, and please excuse the *reflections of the flash off air-borne dust*)

Springs ... of MUDD!

No words, just pictures...

the roof, the roof, the roof is up higher...

Bought a panel lifter the other day, and i tell you, it worth its weight in ... panels? Fantastic machine.






Today we got 16 sheets up, glued & screwed to the ceiling, drilled for lights, and temp screws until the stud adhesive cures. Col was here this morning, then Alan helped out all afternoon. Was a very productive day.





But on another point, the pipes are, how you say, clogged up with rusty bits and blocking all flow to the shower. Booger. 1/2" gal, that's 38 years old, and well undersized by todays standards. They must have had smaller H2Os back in the day... Two weeks time, hopefully it'll all be sorted.