Holiday and more bloody sarking
Friday (Oct 21) we moved out of the place we'd been house sitting as the owners were due back from their holiday. Moved all our stuff out to my sisters where I'll be staying for the duration and commuting to the House. Managed to fit in a early morning trip to the transfer station to pick up 2 wool sacks ( a trailer load) of plastic bottles and got a handful of recycled tools. Friday was really really windy - had to do some remedial work on Brendas ( my sisters) crappy little chinese plastic greenhouse so it wouldnt head off across the Tasman.
We went out to my Dads place on the weekend. Checked out a neighbours place to see what theyd done to their place. Seeing the walls of old sarking (horizontal planks of old heart rimu) got us thinking of leaving a wall uncovered and sanding the surface down as a sort of feature. Thats what theyd done and it looks marvelous (but its a fair bit of work - Oh well; I'll get sho to do it).
Helped my cousin and his nephews dock some lambs Sunday (270), Monday was Labour day (A public holiday celebrating the NZ workers attainment of a (max) 40 hour week). Visited my sister to pick up 'the mother' - their farm car - for me to use to get to and from the house. Its a bit of a heap but the wheels go round and thats sufficient.
Tuesday(25th Oct) My uncle had dropped off a ladder and some trestles at the house yesterday so set that up and went back around all the rooms of the house taking out a row of sarking up near the tops of the walls. I had borrowed a brace+bit and finger saw from Dad while I was home so used that to cut off planks that were wedged or interlocked into the wall corners..
To be accurate I started to do that but it got very difficult as the day progressed (the saw was blunt) so the later ones I just hammered the ends of the damn things till they broke..
Finally done with sarking removal!
Two of the work gang (Bob and Blair) were by to remove the framing for the funky little alcove above the back hall and all the lining on both sides of it. You can see the light getting into the back of the house now.
Blair (whose also the electrician) started going round laying wire and making holes for the power sockets.
We went out to my Dads place on the weekend. Checked out a neighbours place to see what theyd done to their place. Seeing the walls of old sarking (horizontal planks of old heart rimu) got us thinking of leaving a wall uncovered and sanding the surface down as a sort of feature. Thats what theyd done and it looks marvelous (but its a fair bit of work - Oh well; I'll get sho to do it).
Helped my cousin and his nephews dock some lambs Sunday (270), Monday was Labour day (A public holiday celebrating the NZ workers attainment of a (max) 40 hour week). Visited my sister to pick up 'the mother' - their farm car - for me to use to get to and from the house. Its a bit of a heap but the wheels go round and thats sufficient.
Tuesday(25th Oct) My uncle had dropped off a ladder and some trestles at the house yesterday so set that up and went back around all the rooms of the house taking out a row of sarking up near the tops of the walls. I had borrowed a brace+bit and finger saw from Dad while I was home so used that to cut off planks that were wedged or interlocked into the wall corners..
To be accurate I started to do that but it got very difficult as the day progressed (the saw was blunt) so the later ones I just hammered the ends of the damn things till they broke..
Finally done with sarking removal!
Two of the work gang (Bob and Blair) were by to remove the framing for the funky little alcove above the back hall and all the lining on both sides of it. You can see the light getting into the back of the house now.
Blair (whose also the electrician) started going round laying wire and making holes for the power sockets.
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