Category: General

We always told ourselves that once the front fence was in, it was a sign that the build was officially over and ready for inspection. Well today we finally got the slats in the infills. The job didn’t take Anthony too long, half a days work and we’ve created a much needed boundary. Our old…

Things at home have really settled now and the extension on the house almost feels like its always been here. We are practically enjoying the fruits of all our labour and talk about our renovations as if they were ancient history. There are still a few minor tasks to complete and some materials that are…

Home related work has really slowed down now as we are on the finishing end of our renovation. One of the final jobs for us to do was to complete our patio by adding the balustrades and handrails. After a few trips to Bunnings, we bought a collection of suages, wire, turnbuckles, eyelets, lag screws,…

For mid April, the weather is quite warm, not complaining as it’s perfect for the renderer to mix up the cement and cover our brick fence. We hired the same bod that rendered our house, and with the difficulty of hiring a tradie you can trust, it was a no brainer to re-hire him for…

Having half the house painted, I was concerned that the grey colour we chose was not the right fit. This Sunday we completed painting the front of the house, from the floor to the apex. All the security bars were painted in Colorbond’s surf mist and the lines on the face of the house in…

The final day of our Easter break we got the top coat of “Timeless” grey on the external part of the house. We managed to get through most of it but had to leave the front of the house’s apex as the height is unreachable on the ladders we have, not to mention there is…

This long weekend we’ve decided to make use of the holidays and continue through our list of things to do for our house. We received our order of timber on the Thursday and yesterday Anthony spent the time cutting the timber to the lengths he wanted for the giant 6 shelf storage, that would house…

We spent another weekend finishing off tiling the patio floor, part of the patio walls and the stairs. Grouting the whole area finished off the area nicely and we had just enough grout to do the lot. With the patio flooring done we were even able to have our bbq back on the floor. We…

We’ve now grouted the floor of our patio but have been stuck on tiling 5 steps. It has been a slow process just to get a couple of tiles on the stairs. I didn’t realize it would be that much of a challenge seeing that we had tiled our bathrooms, laundry and kitchen, but tiling…

Another Saturday spent working on the house, this time we spent it finishing off the tiling of our patio floor. It’s been a slow process as our tile saw has a battery that maxes out after a few hours. This time we managed to get the floor just about completely tiled bar 2 tiles as…