29 March 2013

I stand corrected, and I humbly apologise. The conversion from 2 inch is not 500 mm but 50 mm. That was a double strike while typing. So the bath outlet is 50 mm.

No plumber in sight yet, so we are playing the waiting game.

I spent time on joining more veranda posts, but none are really finished or painted yet. It is an ongoing task.

I also bought a Bosch dishwasher on Trademe for $10, and had to pick it up in Hamilton. We took the opportunity to visit friends and had an enjoyable day. Yesterday I spent trying to establish what is wrong with it, and how to repair it. It is still an ongoing task. Will report on progress.

Whilst using the tap next to the house, I realised we had a water leak. The tap was about 300 mm from the house, and I just might have hit it with the Ride on lawnmower. So I dug it up and removed rusted out pipe sections and rerouted the pipe to have the tap against the wall. I did not have a standpipe with threads on both ends, and had to dig my pipe threader from deep storage. (I have never used it in NZ, and was considering to sell it as scrap) Pipe threaded and secured to the wall, now it is safe from roaming mowers. Eventually all pipework will have to be replaced with polythene pipes.

It is Good Friday today, which means a very short week.

We are expecting Anneke up from Christchurch for the weekend, so no more work will be done.