16 September 2012

Mieke has got some stuff to sell which is in storage in Cambridge. One if the doors of a cabinet fell apart, and we went to retrieve that and glued it back together. It is advertised on Trademe and a potential buyer wants to see it tomorrow. We have to go there puerly for that.

Crawling under floors again!!! I have fitted water pipes under the floor to the bath and shower. I also connected the hot water lines to the cold water line. All of this was to make sure we have no leaks in the cavities where the Gib has to go. All is OK. I can now proceed to install all the insulation and Gib to the walls.

I managed to make a scriber for the window. That is a piece of timber that is cut in a saw tooth pattern to fit the weatherboards. I sealed it properly because we had wind and rain coming in there. We also fitted the sliding door mechanism to the bathroom door ( the original door). It works well. I still need to make a frame around it.

I started getting frustrated with the amount of junk lying everywhere. So I made up a trailer load of junk for the dump.

On Saturday I installed a brace to a post for the veggie garden, using the Recip saw. While I was at it, I thought it a good idea to finally cut up the tree stump that was on the Northern side of the house. After cutting it in smaller sections, I could cut the remaining roots and remove the stump, leaving a hole. Elna was watching through the kitchen window, and came up with the nice suggestion that we should fill the hole. After all the work!!. She won and we managed to cart three barrowloads if dirt in the hole. It was 5 pm when we finished, and I surely felt my age.

Loads of rain last night and today. I am sure glad I managed so many outside tasks this week while the sun was shining.