24 June 2012
Nothing much happened this week. I had a cold and the energy levels were low.
Mieke arrived Sunday night, and we are spending time with her. I also had to do our tax return. Spent a lot of time sorting through my "box files"
Then Elna tripped on the stairs/ steps between the living room and kitchen. I decided now is a good time to install the ramp we had in mind. It ended up 600 mm high, 2.2 mm long and only 600 mm wide. That was the size of a kitchen top I had lying around. Stuck an offcut of carpet on it an all is fine. (Forgot to say, I had to go under the floor to support the threshold which was a little bit wobbly.)
Hope we will have more to report next week.
Sunday
17 June 2012
I just checked, the work on the front room started on 14 April. We finished yesterday, that makes it 9 weeks. We are finally finished. Now that is using brother Ben's advice not to do the floors now. We did clean away the polish on the edges where the skirting board goes, and the centre part is fairly clean, I think it will be an easy job cleaning all of it. Since Mieke is arriving tonight, we left the floor to clean it properly and oil it when she is gone, using Tung oil. Tung oil does not make it tacky and dark as Linseed oil does.
We decided not to move in ourselves, but to let Mieke use the room, since she will be working odd hours. The room is far away from the living areas. If I may say so, I think we did an excellent job. The room is clean and tidy, and most of all, warm. No draughts.
The next few weeks I will spend on tidying up the section a bit. We have material lying around everywhere. I will also start on putting horizontal beams/joists against the wall in anticipation of putting the verandas back.
I just checked, the work on the front room started on 14 April. We finished yesterday, that makes it 9 weeks. We are finally finished. Now that is using brother Ben's advice not to do the floors now. We did clean away the polish on the edges where the skirting board goes, and the centre part is fairly clean, I think it will be an easy job cleaning all of it. Since Mieke is arriving tonight, we left the floor to clean it properly and oil it when she is gone, using Tung oil. Tung oil does not make it tacky and dark as Linseed oil does.
We decided not to move in ourselves, but to let Mieke use the room, since she will be working odd hours. The room is far away from the living areas. If I may say so, I think we did an excellent job. The room is clean and tidy, and most of all, warm. No draughts.
The next few weeks I will spend on tidying up the section a bit. We have material lying around everywhere. I will also start on putting horizontal beams/joists against the wall in anticipation of putting the verandas back.
10 June 2012
A very slow week last week. I have managed to break two panes of glass out of the eight. I dropped one of the sashes, and then dropped a beam through the other. I had to visit a glazier to cut some of the glass I had stashed away. Thank goodness, he charged only $5!! We did also replace a pane of glass that has been broken on the street side. Next door neighbour said he has been living there for 28 years, and it has been patched all that time. I am still working on the architraves. I did manage to pull the wiring for the plugs we want to fit, but tomorrow I will need to crawl under the floor again to staple the wire. Friday was a half day, we had business in Hamilton, and Saturday we did no work.
We just might make it in time for Marike's visit.
Fingers crossed.
A very slow week last week. I have managed to break two panes of glass out of the eight. I dropped one of the sashes, and then dropped a beam through the other. I had to visit a glazier to cut some of the glass I had stashed away. Thank goodness, he charged only $5!! We did also replace a pane of glass that has been broken on the street side. Next door neighbour said he has been living there for 28 years, and it has been patched all that time. I am still working on the architraves. I did manage to pull the wiring for the plugs we want to fit, but tomorrow I will need to crawl under the floor again to staple the wire. Friday was a half day, we had business in Hamilton, and Saturday we did no work.
We just might make it in time for Marike's visit.
Fingers crossed.
Saturday
2 June 2012
Tomorrow we will be in Auckland, so you are getting this one early.
As stated, the sheep needed a fence. Now that took us two days, adding wires to the fence and putting chicken wire against the fence.Thank goodness we have bought a trailer load of fencing wire a while ago at $2.50!!
We removed the broken glass from the sash, and managed to cut a new pane from the others we had. Problem. The new glass would not fit, although the dimension was right. I learned that the glass was not square, so I had to trim the frame to suit. It turned out to be a big job at my age. Bottom line is that the window is complete now, and all works well. now we will need to remake some of the architraves, they just broke into a thousand pieces. At least we managed to seal that window from draughts. The other window in the same room is fairly rotted out as well. We might just patch it, but it might need remanufacturing as well. Will see next week.
We also refitted the cornices which we have removed when we fitted the plasterboard. We have stripped and revarnished them and had to jack them in position because they were so warped.
We have got two weeks left before Marike comes for her visit. If all goes well, we just might finish that room in time.
I forgot to say, we were given seven sheets of used ply. We used that and some other to line our existing bedroom. It goes only to 2.4m where the wall is 3.4m, but it already makes a marked difference to the temperature. We are experiencing a very mild winter to date, frost only two days or so.
See you next week
G
Tomorrow we will be in Auckland, so you are getting this one early.
As stated, the sheep needed a fence. Now that took us two days, adding wires to the fence and putting chicken wire against the fence.Thank goodness we have bought a trailer load of fencing wire a while ago at $2.50!!
We removed the broken glass from the sash, and managed to cut a new pane from the others we had. Problem. The new glass would not fit, although the dimension was right. I learned that the glass was not square, so I had to trim the frame to suit. It turned out to be a big job at my age. Bottom line is that the window is complete now, and all works well. now we will need to remake some of the architraves, they just broke into a thousand pieces. At least we managed to seal that window from draughts. The other window in the same room is fairly rotted out as well. We might just patch it, but it might need remanufacturing as well. Will see next week.
We also refitted the cornices which we have removed when we fitted the plasterboard. We have stripped and revarnished them and had to jack them in position because they were so warped.
We have got two weeks left before Marike comes for her visit. If all goes well, we just might finish that room in time.
I forgot to say, we were given seven sheets of used ply. We used that and some other to line our existing bedroom. It goes only to 2.4m where the wall is 3.4m, but it already makes a marked difference to the temperature. We are experiencing a very mild winter to date, frost only two days or so.
See you next week
G
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