The weekend started well, some shopping and a latte. And then we went to the house where the Master's were already hard at work. *sigh* Who knew rebuilding a house would be so much work every weekend?
Saturday was a pretty horrid day, weather-wise. It rained most of the day and was quite cold. Sunday was quite pleasant.
The new windows arrived, and a new temporary door for the back wall. We unloaded them and then spent most of the day watching the Masters work, occasionally getting in their way, occasionally actually providing some assistance.
For example, carrying stuff around, making coffee, removing more goddam lathers from the walls.
Meanwhile, walls with poor timber were replaced with new, good timber. New walls were added. We now have a clear bathroom frame and walk in robe. And the space for the laundry and walk in pantry are partly framed.
On Monday the Masters continued their labours and replaced the bedroom windows with the new ones and put the new door in the back wall. In time this will be the door between the kitchen and walk-in-pantry, for now it opens to the backyard.
What was quite interesting was cleaning out the path beside the house. It fell to me to use the high-pressure hose to clean down the side. It was muddy, slippery, full of crap and dirt. Everything I hate about being outside. There is a reason I work a 9-5 job in an office - the outside is for other people. And I've always hated mud and getting dirty.
The Shadow and I assumed that the path was just crapped-out broken bricks with dirt on the wall side. Well, we got quite a shock. By the time we cleared all the mud and dirt out we found there was a ceramic gutter running the length of the path next to the fence. It actually turned out to be quite nice. As the entire path receives some sun everyday, as it runs north-south, it could be quite nice in the future.
I managed to high-pressure spray a heap of mud, dirt and crap into the drain between our house and the road. That was great. In my defense I'm pretty sure the drain was already pretty clogged up! I tried to unclog it, even put my bare hand into the freezing water. But it was clogged further down. Stupid 'great outdoors'.
But clogged no more, some clever thinking by the Masters and the drain was cleared and we were able to have water flowing from the path all the way to the road.
Walls, bathroom on the right, robe on the left:
Clean path - looking south into the backyard:
Path, looking north to the road:
The latest casualty, a $9 Coles broom. It lived a pretty hard 6 weeks before The Shadow broke its back. If you're thinking of Bane breaking Batman's back as a comparison, good for you, we should hang out!
A new opening:
So much crap:
New windows! The frames are actually smaller than the old windows, but as they are aluminium instead of wood, and awning instead of vertical sliding they have heaps more glass, and let in way more of the fence. Not a very exciting view, but its our view. The glass is 'Comfort Plus', which is supposed to be similar to double glazed in terms of heat and noise reduction. *shrug*
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