Category Archives: Random

I took the time this weekend to start fixing the front steps, with very little planning to work with, I decided I’d at the very least get the continue the path to the house, so that at least there is … Continue reading →

The painter spent the last few days finishing off painting the house. He did a great job on it, and even went further than he had to / quoted. For testing colours, I figured, I would paint the front of … Continue reading →

When we installed our solar hot water power, we replaced the leaky, useless electric hot water system on the granny flat with a pipe from the house to the granny flat. We dug the trench and paid the plumber $550 … Continue reading →

A second post, I figure I might as well update on the “House” ideas. Sitting in bed one night this week, I was thinking about how else we could make our desired house plan, but a bit more functional. I’m … Continue reading →

I managed to get the shed door painted last weekend, to match our scheme for our house. Then it rained all week, starting Monday. The steps I took to do it were largely based off having a look around at … Continue reading →

As if to tease me, we had a fairly sunny day yesterday. If it weren’t for work, I might have been able to coat the front door, and even get a second coat on. Today, we have more rain, and … Continue reading →

There are only good two aspects to the last week of rain, the first is builders generate a lot of wood chips – rain washes them away onto the grass. The second is we don’t have our gross meter installed, … Continue reading →

Our builders have finished with the cladding, and the changes are very noticeable. Some of the existing bits and peices just look out of place, for example, the drive way gate is a rotted brown painted timber fence, collapsing under … Continue reading →

In just one day, massive amounts of progress occurred. We had the demolition people out to remove all the fibro and eaves, they took a good 5 hours. They did a good job of it, there remains some flakes and … Continue reading →

No, I didn’t just rush out in a last minute rush to buy Windows – Ubuntu can be annoying, but it *works*. Our new windows arrived, and so we are inching closer to the builder booting up, clicking his start … Continue reading →

We now have our solar hot water system in, so far so good, first night it used 6kW of off peak, and nothing since. We are still keeping tabs on it to be sure (as I’d rather spend 40c heating … Continue reading →

Today, we dug out the trench for the new pipe to go to the cabin at the back for the new solar hot water system. We managed to get the trench dug out, I thought it’d take most of the … Continue reading →

Now we are committed to the work. The price jumped from our expectations by another 7500 for the Invisigard security screens we decided we’d stick on. They seem to be worth the money, rivalling Crimsafe products at a cheaper price, … Continue reading →

I love a good day, when everything falls into place, there’s no real problems / difficulties. And, after previously deciding to tell CBA to shove it, I’ve since changed my mind and took up a Personal Loan with them for … Continue reading →

We have some funds in redraw we can put towards the renovations. The new mortgage paperwork arrived today, and I’ve thought about it in detail after seeing the final figures and having some questions raised. I contacted our Loans rep … Continue reading →

What lunatics do we have elected in our federal governing body? I’ve had a look at the Environment Minister’s website tonight after hearing a news article about the Insulation / Hot Water rebate being scrapped. Immediate disappointment struck as our … Continue reading →

The valuers thought Weathertex would be a better value. I asked my partner to ask the builder whether he would do weathertex, and what it’d come in at. His indication was ‘it would be cheaper’. The builder operates rather differently … Continue reading →

And the current value is under the previous real estate’s ‘market appraisal’, but then real estate isn’t always consistent. The valuers claim that for the money we’d outlay, only a 50% increase in value would occur (meaning, we’d be sinking … Continue reading →