Saturday 18th May 2013

WORKING BEE DAY!!!

A HUGE THANKYOU to Marlene, Wendy, Stasia, and Stan for supplying muscle power with me and Sandy for supplying food!

We spent a great day gutting the house, Anastasia thought it was absolutely wonderful destroying things lol, removed all the crappy masonite stuff that was on every interior wall - yuck!! Completely ripped out the kitchen, got rid of the HWS, and gutted the bathroom! And all went well apart from a mummified lizard which fell out of the bathroom wall in front of me, and theres a story in itself, -  it appears that at some stage there has been a fire in the bathroom and just covered up instead of being repaired ! why would you do that? Oh and then there was the dead huntsman which Stan thought looked good sitting on my shoulder and then pointed out to me 10 minutes later - I think Maclean people probably heard me scream.

Have to say I think there must have been a big special on pink and green way back then!

The best part was that everything and I mean everything just got pushed out the back door area down onto the ground and then we just sorted out and started a fire pile of all burnable items.

Made such a huge dufference and got so much achieved , much more than I thought we would :D

WHERE DO I START??

Have seriously been thinking, "what the hell have I done" but I suppose I will snap out of it and then when it gets tough again, be thinking it again!
OK, Met a builder onsite last night, arranged for some quotes to at least get part front verandah done and stairs so we can at least gain decent access because ladders are not my favourite options!
Bobcat man (Spud) was onsite this morning and he will be out later today or tomorrow and level out around immediate are of house so I can then organise scaffold (of which I am dreading even hearing the quote!) Bugger! just realised I didnt ask him to scrape flat an area so I can organise Water Tank to be placed as I will need water to pressure clean out all the cockroach crap out of house! (OK just sent him a text with instructions)
Left message for electrician as I need to organise temporary pole so we can have power!
Need to organise moving of one of the poly tanks from where I am living now to new place and the list goes on still as you can imagine......

its all mine!!!

WOOHOO House removers have finished, house is nice an high on new stumps and ready for me to start work or organising work lol! where do I start is the biggest question?
Have meeting this afternoon with Builder on-site to start organising some quotes so I can get started somewhere.
Spoke to Plumber Monday evening and faxed him Councils Waste Water Management System Approval to start moving on that.
Will take a photo while I'm there and post later,  And have to mention the fact that I went in my lunch break yesterday so was wearing dress and heels, trudging around in mud and rain and then had to climb the extension ladder up over 3 metres to get into the house. Oh and did I mention I'm scared of heights!!
Looking around and thinking that I need to change some of my original ideas, holy cow the list of things I need just grows!! Doors, windows, ceiling out back bathroom area, walls etc......

Been a bit slack writing recently but not much has changed with house.
Council came last Thurday and inspected footings so by the end of this week (fingers crossed) house should be on its piers!!
Speaking to someone today regarding Bobcat work to level around the house as the roofer wont give me a quote till house is stumped and ground level :C
Meeting a builder onste Wednedsay afternoon to start organising some quotes, meeting a hanyman to do same thing probably next Sunday. Hopefully organised a tractor and stick rake to do all cleared area next weekend so it has been full on just trying to organise things!
Over the past week have purchased 4 new ceiling roses so cant wait for them to arrive :)
Hopefully have some new pics by end of week!