Is there anything more satisfying?

Well, sure, there probably are lots of things more satisfying. But I get some small pleasure out of clean washing flapping in the breeze.

One more task ticked off: clothesline installed. I think it's going to be quite adequate - I only have the small inner section unfolded here, and that's a full load from my 7.5kg washer, which doesn't even fill it. But if it turns out to be too small, we'll get another and put them side-by-side.



I discovered a small hitch when I went to hang the first load out though. In our old place, I had a peg tidy attached to the central post on our big folding rotary hoist. I can't stand pegs left on the lines; they get dirty and rusty and leave marks on your clean washing. Plus they go brittle and you're always having to replace them. So in the rental, with no post to attach a peg tidy to, I kept them in a plastic bucket with a lid, on the ground under the line.

My eldest son though, is apparently incapable of replacing the lid, so the bucket was continually full of rain and dust and when we moved, I just threw the filthy, rusty pegs out. Only thing is, I didn't get around to buying more.... d'oh!

A quick trip to Safeway took care of that little problem, and we now have lovely clean washing, air-drying nicely. :o)

We just need some paving underneath - that might have to wait for a bit, but meanwhile, we'll put down a layer of screenings or something to keep the mud at bay. That's if it ever rains again.

Pictorial.....

The floorboards look pretty damn good under electric lighting. And thank goodness Bike Boy has a bug up his arse about skirtings and insisted on upgrading to 90mm.

Ignore all the crap on the bench. And the lack of appliances. Ooh, I have just the thing to go in that feature niche there.


Hope the new dishwasher, when it arrives, works a LOT better than our current one. And I really need a stainless steel fridge - the old white one is going to look sadly out of place....

Are we there yet?

Got my Redi Shade temporary blinds in the mail yesterday, so guess what I'm doing this afternoon?



The floating floor will be completely finished this morning, and I plan to go take some photos later today. Promise to post them here.

We have a few trades booked in to finish stuff off - replacement of some fascia today, a small repair to the bathroom vanity cabinet next week, a service for the bifolds the week after, and the painter is coming Monday or Tuesday to do a few touch-ups. And I've just emailed our construction manager a short list of minor stuff that the fixing carpenter didn't do prior to handover, to make sure it doesn't get overlooked.

Apart from that, appliances and carpet go in next week, and then WE go in. :o) Must do something about that landscaping request form. Where did I put that.....?

Now I'm just getting impatient. We're soooo close!

Getting closer

We've got through a lot in the past few days. The site supervisor sent a cleaner on Sunday, to deal with the mess the tradies left on Thursday/Friday. He also organised for a locksmith to come yesterday, and we now have all entry sets and deadlocks keyed alike. One key - much better!

Yesterday was a busy day, with our driveway poured and the flooring guys getting the boards down in the family/dining rooms. The house is starting to look a lot more like we imagined it.

Today the floor progressed down to the front door, our gas meter turned up and we had a guy come over and replace the mesh in a flyscreen that had paint stuck in it. By the end of the week, the floating floor should be finished, the fences ought to be up - at least along the side boundary, with the post holes dug in the correct positions along the rear boundary, and we'll have a few small jobs done ourselves (stuff like sealing the pebble feature tiles in the showers, painting the letterbox...).

We're right on schedule so far....

The BIG to-do list

We've made quite a bit of progress over the weekend. Well, when I say "we", I mean Bike Boy.... So we've now ticked off the following items from our very long list:

- Floorboards picked up and delivered to the house. Bike Boy did get bogged in the process, when he executed my brilliant idea of cutting across the vacant block behind out house with the car and fully loaded trailer, and carting the packs straight into the rumpus room. When I suggested that, it had NOT been bucketing rain for approximately 20 hours. He was most happy. Yeah, right.
-TV antenna installed. No, my husband did not climb around on the roof in the rain, we employed an expert. He's not entirely crazy.
- Letterbox purchased and waiting in the garage.
- Grout sealed in floor and shower tiles. I am NOT having my lovely off-white grout turn grey within a few months. Not this time.
- Floor scraped, sanded and vacuumed so it's ready for the boards to be laid tomorrow.
- Gate collected and left for the fencing dudes to hang when they do the fence panels tomorrow. Let's hope they manage not to stuff that up.
- Formwork is all done for the driveway and concrete pour is scheduled for tomorrow.

Now we just have to follow up the blind manufacturers to get them to come and measure up, contact the landscapers to start on our front yard, build some decking on the front porch and in the al fresco room, move all our crap....oh yeah, and chase the builders to finish what they started.