Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Internet finally!

So much to update you on since our big move weekend and weeks that followed (can you believe that Telstra have still not connected our TV, phone and internet?!) so I will try to keep it brief with lots of pics yay!

In summary:
  • Installation of wood flooring and carpet
  • Electrical fit out - including 50 or more LED down lights, pendant lights, bathroom vents, LED strip lighting, fans, external lighting etc etc
  • Move day
  • Termite and pest spray
  • Excavation of the backyard to give a more level ground and tidy up of the block
  • driveway was cut in
  • Josh and Alex prepped the driveway, marked it out, leveled and had the concrete poored - this was a week long process.
  • Fence posts and palings were sourced, collected and delivered 
  • Fence post holes were dug, concrete poored and posts went in
  • Portico deck  
  • Summer was bathed hehe
While all this was going on tradies were coming and going at the house to fix a few teething problems and people were arriving to quote for curtains, shutters, turf, retaining walls and so on! Crazy last 3 weeks to say the least.

Alex worked tirelessly putting in all of the lights with Scotty and again on the driveway with Josho. Josh did the most amazing job on our massive driveway! Such a large task for one guy and although he wasnt happy with the finish on the middle section (Josh is an absolute perfectionist and such a hard worker!) Alex and I are just ever so grateful that he did it for us and we are not worried about the finish that only another concretor would be able to pick up! While the boys worked away I made sure they were fed and hydrated haha. Thanks to Josho, Nath and Grant for helping us get there in the end.

Ben from Performance Excavators has done all of our excavation needs and did an amazing job at it. So glad we found him. He's a local super chilled out surfie dude from the area ha!

By this weekend we should have the front yard turfed and a deck to the alfresco area. Alex will also be working away at the fence palings with whatever help I can provide!

The photos are all jumbled up and after trying to re-arrange them a bazillion times and them not co-operating, I've given up!


New deck to the portico




Fence palings being delivered
 
Half the fence posts in
 

After shot of wood flooring install

Day 3 - final section of driveway
  
Day 1 - section 1 of concrete



Section 2 of driveway


After shot of excavation


Shot of the backyard before the excavation work

Before shots of backyard

After excavation shot


POD delivery bang on time again



wood flooring install

Before - wood flooring

Josho working away on the driveway


day 2 - section 2 of concrete with few extra helpers at hand 

Fence posts are up

This is similar to what we want to build


Friday, July 12, 2013

Coming soon...

Another late post to come! Unfortunately we still do not have TV, phone or Internet connected. Telstra made an error with our connection to Telstra velocity request so we are without until the 18 July! Once we have a Internet connection I will be able to update you on our flooring install, electrical fit out, driveway and hopefully our fence by then.

Stay tuned...