Things did not go quite to plan with the new roof last week and consequently nothing much happened on the place on Thursday and Friday, apart from some tidying up of cables by John before the rendered appears later this week. Apparently this rendered has a propensity to cover anything and everything up with cement and John wanted to make sure which bits were to remain exposed. I didn't photograph neat cables. It is those messy ones which make interesting images. Other things have happened though.
On Saturday, the scaffold was removed from the back of our place. The patch up paint job was fine. Greg is not bad with the old paint brush! Actually the back of the building has never been a priority. We have decided to leave some unused pipes in situ and there is all manner of mechanisms attached to the rear wall; air conditioner, exhaust, water and something else I can't quite fathom.
Last week, when we saw the crane arriving and leaving so quickly from the Stockton side, we didn't realise that the crane had arrived extra early - so early in fact that it left before the truck which arrived with the new roofing materials was unable to organise that the crane lift the metal on to the roof. This had nothing to do with Steve. It was the deal arranged between the roofer and the company doing the AMP wall (taking away their scaffold.) Seems they did not liaise very well! So, our new roof did not go on that day.
Another crane was ordered for today. This crane dropped the roofing material, the gyprock and the hot water system onto our roof garden in one swooop, at 7 am this morning.
The roof did, in fact, go on today which was a relief as on Friday there had been the most dreadful storm and many buckets had to be strategically placed to deal with th influx of water.
The solar hot water system was delivered today but not installed because the frame on which to sit it somehow managed not to arrive on the truck!
Progress happened today on the stairs - the temporary rails were removed in readiness for the glass bannisters. And more of the kitchen went in. Lester sent photos home of the truck in the street with the cupboard doors on it. These had been sent away to be "two-packed" - i.e. painted and cooked. I am a bit apprehensive that those hours of choosing colours might turn out to be fatally wrong - i.e. too dark - too green or too blue. You may remember that I was avoiding a black and white kitchen and spent hours trawling through shades of grey. Anyway, turns out (fav word for tonight) that really, there is no way the chosen colour is too dark. It looks pretty "white" after all. The top shelving is in place now and without a human in the photos, the dimensions are not quite apparent. These shelves were designed to be reached by ladder. They are very high but will serve as seldom-visited storage.
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| Scaffold down. Patched up wall doesn't look too bad - considering... |
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| Exhaust, a/c and other attachments |
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| Ritcho directing traffic as crane lifts gyprock and roofing gear from truck |
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| View from further down the street |
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| Western wall of kitchen |
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| Eastern wall of kitchen |
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| Centre bench - the doors look fairly light in these photos. |
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| The kitchen doors arrive. It is really annoying that someone has parked in the construction zone parking spot. Luckily nothing dropped from the crane!! |
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