31 July. Floorboards - Justin ans Meesam. Potential builder Vince fell off a roof. Found a new bricky - Tony

Floorboards Justin and Meesam.
Potential builder Vince fell off a roof and broke a leg. FML.

Talked to John Sacco - he will come to build pillar reinforcing.
I am looking for brickies on Gumtree. Found three - Tony to do job.

Fence contract ends soon - contacted them - can extend month by month

More floorboards.

Jim and Julian from 1800GotJunk. Great way to get rid of stuff.

All gone. Thanks lads.

Floor all cut for the front rooms.

30 July. (No floorboards)

No floor board action -  a bit of a rest day. Sanded doors.

29 July. Floorboards. No Bricky, sigh. Laura painting doors.

Floorboards only today. Paul, Justin, Mesam start to lay floor boards, insulation

Laura painting doors - dogs confined to the balcony, after cutting the oil paint out of Darcy's hair !

Insulation top go under the front room joists.

Power to island bench 2000 mm from each wall

First boards down.

Expansion gap of 15 mm.

28 July. Sunday. Paul and Mesam finish batons. Painted some doors. Dinner with Jen and she's off home.

Sunday.

Paul and Mesam at 1200 to finish batons.
Jen in town for the weekend. We have dinner and see her to her hotel.

I've painted undercoat on a couple of doors with Darcy's help.

27 July. Saturday. Paul and Mesam lay batons. Dinner at Eltham and stay the night

Paul and Mesam  lay batons 0830

Paul also does fences and decks. He will quote for fence.

Dinner and stay at Eltham.

Making himself at home at Eltham.

26 July. Bricky not coming due rain. Coat of paint downstairs. Move all our gear upstairs. Finish door handles

Bricky ? No, rain, yes.

No Alf, just Mick - finish a few things. Paint downstairs, just undercoat. I finish a few door handles and bog holes.

25 July. Richard lift floorboards. 400 Mj gas main OK. Clean up ready for floor layer. Old boards gone, new ones back on joists

Onsite Mick and Alf - plastering and cleaning up.

Richard, Claire and Dad Barry lifting floorboards.

Messaged renderers Carl and Richard to not take quote

Rang Origin at 0840 regarding 400 Mj coming from gas main. Scott at Connections advise that the Investra 'shipper' is good up to 400 Mj and no need to change it. Plumber Chris aware

Floorboards are now all gone. $200 richer.
We have moved all our new boards back onto the joists.

Paul will now come Saturday to lay batons.

Boards coming up. That's the board lifter.

Alfie and Mick sanding plaster.

Door on bathroom

Boards up and sorted

Planks down and ready for inspection by the trooops

Move all this back onto the joists, again.

Just like that, all back again.

Supper time... and no more boards...

24 July. Mick and Alf - plastering and paint. Plumber Chris install gas main

Onsite Mick and Alf - plastering.

No Bricky, still sick.

Plumber Chris install gas main, gas to gas fire Heat & Glo SL350, 40 mm pipe in powder room, plumb vanity,

We need 400 Mj gas line in.

Making room for gas line...

Front room , gas line going in.

Out to the light well...

T join for kitchen and hot water...

To the gas fire in the living room

For cook top

Have lagged sewer pipe to muffle noises

Alfie has done bathroom window and door architraves..

Ohhh, shiny. Picked up bathroom light shade

Went and had dinner at the Vegie Bar, then moved all the floorboards out to clear the floor.