Solar devices and paintin
Stop at Home supply place and get a stack of paint brushes rollers and hole filling gloop. Arrive at house to find the Solar Hot Water installers (Gary Benton and two offsiders) there getting ready to put the collectors and hot water tank in and connect it all up.
Sorted out the two panels to go on the roof (about 3.8 square meters total) positioned so as to get maximum insolation and not look too weirdly positioned. The Panels went up on the roof without any problems and got bracketed in place. You can hardly see them against the (dark colored) roof. Most obvious parts are the aluminium brackets so I'll probably paint them some dark color if wedont get used to seeing them shining down at us.
Continued with painting kitchen-side wall till (niece) Jamie and Shonagh turn up. Shonagh bouncing color schemes off Jamie then I got her (Jamie) to help out with painting - she got to do the fiddly bits round the windows - paint going on a lot faster using a roller for the flat faces and a brush for the weatherboard grooves.
Started to drizzle so switch Jamie to stripping paint inside.
Peter tells me we need to get the spouting down so work on that. Of course the spouting is full of shit and old nails and god knows what and of course its got water in it and of course its hanging on for its dear little life so it takes much cursing and levering and twisting to pry it off and when you do it either tries to sweep you off the trestle or drops wet shit on your head or both and in either case sprays black stuff all over my nice cleaned wall...
Finally indulge myself and beat it madly with a crowbar until it all comes off. Manage not to fall off trestle while doing so. Calm down by picking up the pieces of plastic and dropped lead heads and nails and wipe/sweep down the walls again.
Wonder whether I would survive suggesting that Peter take a project management course with emphasis on sequencing operations.
Solar and piping installed and connected up. Electric connections still to be done but talked to Blair and he can do that at any stage.
Gary will have to come out for about half an hour once water and power on to turn everything on and do a smoke(?) test.
Kitchen-side wall about 2/3 finished painting.
Into town to pickup the mother - $450 out and new radiator recore in... Didnt overheat on way home so that looks promising.
New Plymouth for dinner and film that evening; was going to be a film then dinner but the film times here are weird (start a movie at 5.45 and again at 8.15 - who the hell does that work for ??) so missed the earlier showing.
Found a fish restaurant that also does BIG (brown meat) steaks so both me and shonagh ended up happy and well fed.
The film was 'Serenity' which follows on in sequence from the T.V series ('Firefly') - really really great.
Sorted out the two panels to go on the roof (about 3.8 square meters total) positioned so as to get maximum insolation and not look too weirdly positioned. The Panels went up on the roof without any problems and got bracketed in place. You can hardly see them against the (dark colored) roof. Most obvious parts are the aluminium brackets so I'll probably paint them some dark color if wedont get used to seeing them shining down at us.
Continued with painting kitchen-side wall till (niece) Jamie and Shonagh turn up. Shonagh bouncing color schemes off Jamie then I got her (Jamie) to help out with painting - she got to do the fiddly bits round the windows - paint going on a lot faster using a roller for the flat faces and a brush for the weatherboard grooves.
Started to drizzle so switch Jamie to stripping paint inside.
Peter tells me we need to get the spouting down so work on that. Of course the spouting is full of shit and old nails and god knows what and of course its got water in it and of course its hanging on for its dear little life so it takes much cursing and levering and twisting to pry it off and when you do it either tries to sweep you off the trestle or drops wet shit on your head or both and in either case sprays black stuff all over my nice cleaned wall...
Finally indulge myself and beat it madly with a crowbar until it all comes off. Manage not to fall off trestle while doing so. Calm down by picking up the pieces of plastic and dropped lead heads and nails and wipe/sweep down the walls again.
Wonder whether I would survive suggesting that Peter take a project management course with emphasis on sequencing operations.
Solar and piping installed and connected up. Electric connections still to be done but talked to Blair and he can do that at any stage.
Gary will have to come out for about half an hour once water and power on to turn everything on and do a smoke(?) test.
Kitchen-side wall about 2/3 finished painting.
Into town to pickup the mother - $450 out and new radiator recore in... Didnt overheat on way home so that looks promising.
New Plymouth for dinner and film that evening; was going to be a film then dinner but the film times here are weird (start a movie at 5.45 and again at 8.15 - who the hell does that work for ??) so missed the earlier showing.
Found a fish restaurant that also does BIG (brown meat) steaks so both me and shonagh ended up happy and well fed.
The film was 'Serenity' which follows on in sequence from the T.V series ('Firefly') - really really great.
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