Seeing progress for ourselves
Ok, so we’re still a post or two short from the overseas trip, but more important (to us) was seeing in person what progress had been made on the house in our absence. So yesterday after a night’s sleep (I wouldn’t say a good night’s sleep) so we were actually safe to drive out there we headed on out. Unfortunately it was raining that horrible misty rain, so we couldn’t see the shape as we were driving down the road, but we got a pretty nice surprise when we pulled into the drive. The roof was on!
We’d hoped it would be, but it was still great to see it. What we hadn’t expected was that the house would be wrapped in building paper kind of stuff too. So instead of the matchstick house, we have a paper house!
Wandering around inside now with the “walls” and roof on gave it yet another different feel. And made it seem bigger again! We need some of the sliding doors in to close off some of the rooms to make it seem smaller!
Currently the soffits are going on (or should that be “soffit is”?), then it’s time for the windows and doors hopefully next week. Things seem to be going quickly again! I think it’ll slow down again a bit with the cladding, but we’ll see.
Today we went out again to get instructions on all of the water pumping equipment. It’s not that complicated. Well, that’s what I keep telling myself! We’ll just have to see if we can remember what we need to do and when. I guess we’ll know we’ve got it wrong when we run out of water. No doubt just as we’ve put a big wodge of shampoo in our hair or something!
While we were out there we also put in a bit of physical labour, just to see how unfit we’d managed to get in the month we’d been away. We filled in a big hole left by the power guys with the stack of dirt on the side. Did I mention it was a big hole?! Huge! Well, huge enough for the two of us and a brace of spades…
I can report that I think we’re not as fit as when we left, but possibly not as unfit as we possibly deserve to be after our month away!