Week 13 - Garage Door and Tiles

I got some better pics of inside the house this week. Apart from the Garage Door which was done on Monday 21st June nothing much else happened this week because the tiles weren't delivered in time.
We also visited a travel agent this week and got some ideas and prices for honeymoons to Fiji! Got some good ideas about places to go and things we would like to do. So now we'll re-search and do it all cheaper by going direct and doing everything ourselves!

Front of the house with our Garage Door.

Garage door installed.

Front of the house and the front door is still Green!

My Kitchen is in - MOSTLY! Still no stove or rangehood and they've forgotten the extension on the bench.

Kitchen again. The extension that we should have will bring the island out to about half way to the fridge area.

Master bedroom looking through the en suite and walk in Robe.

En suite Cabinet and our blue shower area!

Bedroom 2

Main Bathroom

Bedroom 3

The tiles in the Garage waiting to be laid

Garage Door



Miss Chewi - happy little girl after a big run around!



Our Exchange - where our ADSL 2+ will be coming from.

More Exchange

Our Neighbours Speed test! Possibly Telstra only but I am not complaining.

WEEK 12 - LOCKED OUT

So it's Week 12 of the building Schedule and we're 75% complete in the progress of the house.... and we're locked out! Because of the reflection on the windows we didn't get too many pictures inside the house this time... But my peeping tom skills are improving!

These are pics of Glen trying to break in through the garage door. (The garage roller door - goes in today 21/06/2010.)







Look through our bedroom doors, into the en suite. You can see the cupboards have been installed, and the doors have been hung. They've also lacquered the wet areas with a blue goop. The tiler man should be there this week starting the tiles and we've been told that it's going to take 8 days to lay all the tiles etc.

The view of the kitchen through the window - sorry it's not a great pic- but the kitchens in.

Since i couldn't take many other pictures i took lots of pictures of Flowers before we went and picked up our RIDE ON MOWER!!!









OH and a picture of a spider. This spider currently resides outside our laundry door. We've watched him/her grow up from a baby spider and build it's web and now it's HUGE and very pretty... as long as it's stays outside.

Our Ride on Mower. A Rover Colt 5 circa 1981

This is the Maroochy River. The bloke we bought the mower off lives at the bottom of the mountain in the background. The mountain is called Mt. Ninderry




And now the fun begins. We got the mower home and decided to have a play in the backyard so nobody could see us while we looked stupid and had a play... i don't think either of us have laughed so hard in a long time. Glen had first play and drive around for a while before putting the blades down and actually mowing.



He's not playing with the blades, he's checking the accelerator and gears!

Blades down and away he goes.





Turning circles not great!



Then it was my turn. Nearly ran over the dog!

Then i started having fun!


We ended up mowing the whole yard in a little over 30 mins.. including our play time... then when we drove around the neighborhood the next day we were looking at other peoples lawns we could mow, including the park across the road!
We did have a few mishaps. I may have accidentally driven the mower into one of the stilts of the house... Lucky there's a bumper bar on the mower... and then not long after that Glen decided to try and mow down our front fence! All in all we had loads of fun and can't wait for the lawn to grow again so we can have another play!

Bacchus Marsh Storm Damage 17th June 2010

At about 10 AM yesterday morning Glen received a phone call that there's been a wind storm go through Bacchus Marsh, and our rental property manager in the area happened to be driving past and noticed damage to our rental property.

She said that the damage was to the roof of the garage and some tiles had come off. She explained she'd called the tenant and the SES were on their way. She told us she'd take some pics and send stuff through.

Below are the 2 images she took of the damage!





In the meantime Glen was sorting everything out with insurance and getting quotes for repairs because he was home from work sick.

Then the agent sent me some images that the tenant asked the SES man to take while he was up there.







At the moment everything's underway to get repairs completed, quotes sent to the insurance people etc, and nobody was hurt..... A big thanks to the SES. They are hero's and do an awesome job and they are all volunteers, There are more than 5500 committed and dedicated volunteers around the state of Victoria who provide their services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

http://www.ses.vic.gov.au/CA256AEA002F0EC7/HomePage?OpenForm&1=Home~&2=~&3=~

Week 11 - Brickwork and Plasterwork Finished.... and Glen has a cold.

Front of the house - brickwork all done. Can't wait to get rid of the green front door!

Garage.... plasterwork finished.

Study window - Front of the house has bricks above the windows. All the rest of the house has that board stuff above the windows externally.

Computer room.

Hallway

Happy Dogs and the Spa - with the leaky pipe fixed up and the plaster all replaced.

The architraves in the en-suite.

From the Kitchen looking towards the front door

Glen in the Kitchen..... just before he got poorly with the flu.

From the kitchen looking at the rumpus room and the chairs we took around for our picnic out there sitting on the alfresco area.