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Checked house - Jamie had done a nice job finishing the Kitchen-side wall. The work gang have finished gibbing shonaghs craftroom and had started on the bathroom. The piles for the front deck are in, as are the ones for the back porch.
Dad and (Uncle) Eb arrived, Jamie and her sister Kait. Sort them all out with ladders, scrapers, brushes, paint and jobs and off we go. Dad and Eb painting, Jamie and Kait scraping and brushing. I get the task of staying ahead of the painters glooping up gaps and nail holes before they do the painting - pretty much a lost cause.
Switch Jamie and Kait to painting once they finish prepping the walls. Between them all they paint all the back walls (bathroom, Porch and Master Bedroom) and the road-side walls around to the Lounge. Dad and Eb up and down ladders and trestles and the girls doing the front Bay and rest of the walls as high as they can reach. Run out of paint about 2.00 pm which
gives me a chance to catch up on the glooping and them a chance to enjoy prepping the rest of the walls (scrape and brush) - that'll teach them.
Find that all the old retrofitted windows on the back of the house werent weather packed where they fit to the weather board so do that as well (old batts and gap filler).
Cant find the big ladder or light aluminium one so keep occupied helping the painters move the trestles around as well.
Bob and Scott replacing the rotted plate and stud in the toilet and fitting packing for gibbing the bathroom and WC and fitting the off missing floorboard then working on the boards over the verandah. Darryl gibbing the Bathroom and putting the Shower base in.
The septic tank arrived and is ceremoniously placed next to the leachfield. This has been moved below the drive, forward of the garage since the planned position alongside the garage is not accessible by the digger. I notice that Darryl has buried the burn pile and placed a nice pile of dirt on top of it.
A good days work - about 1/3 of the walls left to paint - front gables and the bits around the (to be replaced) front verandah. With some more paint and a big ladder will do other two gables and the front tomorrow and do touchup on the stuff we did today and that should about kill it..
Dad and (Uncle) Eb arrived, Jamie and her sister Kait. Sort them all out with ladders, scrapers, brushes, paint and jobs and off we go. Dad and Eb painting, Jamie and Kait scraping and brushing. I get the task of staying ahead of the painters glooping up gaps and nail holes before they do the painting - pretty much a lost cause.
Switch Jamie and Kait to painting once they finish prepping the walls. Between them all they paint all the back walls (bathroom, Porch and Master Bedroom) and the road-side walls around to the Lounge. Dad and Eb up and down ladders and trestles and the girls doing the front Bay and rest of the walls as high as they can reach. Run out of paint about 2.00 pm which
gives me a chance to catch up on the glooping and them a chance to enjoy prepping the rest of the walls (scrape and brush) - that'll teach them.
Find that all the old retrofitted windows on the back of the house werent weather packed where they fit to the weather board so do that as well (old batts and gap filler).
Cant find the big ladder or light aluminium one so keep occupied helping the painters move the trestles around as well.
Bob and Scott replacing the rotted plate and stud in the toilet and fitting packing for gibbing the bathroom and WC and fitting the off missing floorboard then working on the boards over the verandah. Darryl gibbing the Bathroom and putting the Shower base in.
The septic tank arrived and is ceremoniously placed next to the leachfield. This has been moved below the drive, forward of the garage since the planned position alongside the garage is not accessible by the digger. I notice that Darryl has buried the burn pile and placed a nice pile of dirt on top of it.
A good days work - about 1/3 of the walls left to paint - front gables and the bits around the (to be replaced) front verandah. With some more paint and a big ladder will do other two gables and the front tomorrow and do touchup on the stuff we did today and that should about kill it..
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