Work round Xmas

Dec24 (Sat)
Spend 4 hours cleaning accumulated debris out of house:
4 bags dust and small bits, coupla other bags and boxes of larger debris (polystyrene packing from oven, joint compound boxes, etc). Looks much better

Dec 25th Xmas Day - nothing done on house.

Dec 26th Mon
Varnish all the new fitted rimu skirting bds, architraves and exposed new wood in Dining room and kitchen hall openings. One coat (matt) about 15% thinned with turps. Wood looks really good.

Tues-Thurs
With Dad + Eb And Jamie and Kaits help put interior undercoat/sealer through all the interior walls.
Do the back Porch/Toilet, Bathroom and all the Bedrooms Tues.
Bedrooms were done fast so its a bit uneven.
Found that the gibstoppers didnt stop around the windows in the bedrooms so leave the edges unpainted pending that being fixed.
Lounge+Dining room and part of Hall Wed - nice clean even job.
Finish Hall, Linen cupboard (Dad calls it the boiler room), Hall, porch and bathroom and Laundry ceilings and do Kitchen Thursday.
Finish by touching up uneven coverage in bedrooms.

Anticipated about 4 buckets (40L) paint - used just under 6 in end - 3 on first day. Best result (for me) seems to be using roller on a pole and working round room. Apply first coat to seal/cover, let dry(mostly) then a cover coat to even it up. Others have slightly different approached none of which give an even a job as my way.

We put a coat on the laundry (painted) panelling and back room ceilings which lightened/cleaned them up a lot.

Looks really good with just white and rimu trim. Havent been able to persuade shonagh we should leave it like that.

Taking new year off to go up to Rotorua.

waiting for stoppers.

Mon Dec 19 to Fri Dec 23

Put colored plastic in Powerline ditch.
Darryl fill ditch in with digger after phone guy laid phone line.

Crawl around under house removing all stored stuff and rubbish while Darryl + Pete finishing house base boards. Make piles of stuff to keep and put some in shed. Pile up rubbish for discard later. Darryl put doors on baseboards for under house access.

Fixup bent floor board by jacking up (car jack) from underneath and cleating it in place. Crawl all over underneath of house andfill up gaps around pipes and old pipe holes in laundry and bathroom.

Nail up face boards around back porch door and where house was cut for moving. Gloop up resulting gaps in weatherboard and paint over.

Plumbers by to finish spouting and plumb waste water line from shower. As final test they hookup generator to pump and test all taps and water entry and exit fixtures.
Roofer by to put flashing on verandah.

Find leak over kitchen window so gloop that up.
Mother stuck in mud by drive where parked it in the morning -- cant drive out so get pickup from sho.


Gib stoppers by for a few hours early in week. Finish stopping, sand walls then put final coating on and take off. Leave a hell of a mess on parts they werent supposed to be plastering (ceiling and floors).Looks like a flock of seagulls have been nesting in the house.

Electrician come take a look at the wiring and physically connect the line from the pole to the fuse box.

Plumbing a Go go

Week of Dec 12 to 16.
Roofers finished verandah ( half a day)
Touchup paint and gloop holes/gaps on walls.
Paint around outside wall of toilet window cleanup exterior around new window.

Widen space around house (big digger) and use little digger to dig drains for
sewage and storm water lines.

Plumbers at house Wed-Fri.
First day they lay sewage and water lines (I spend half day straightening and getting even fall on ditches done with digger on day before).
Hookup sewage lines to septic and septic to leachfield.
( leachfield is 12mx8m 600mm deep, 150mm metal, perf pipes (2 runs) 200mm metal/gravel on top, shade cloth, 300 mm dirt on top)
Lay (storm) water lines to tank on top of sewage line.
Hookup stormwater lines to water tank.
Piping goes in real fast once drains OK. White PVC glued and stuck together.Sewage pipes have rubber seals also.
Day 2 they install hot and cold water lines under house for fixtures and drain lines for grey and black water to gully trap or into sewage lines.
Install and hookup pump from water tank.
Third day (Fri) install interior fixtures and appliances.

I Make and install stand for pump (going in garage corner)

Shonaghs clawfoot bath arrived and dragged into bathroom, installed in place. Cover with wrap to protect from Gib stoppers if they ever come back.

Strip wall paper/glue off end of hall ceiling. Wipe down ceiling

Inspector came to check sewage lines (Thurs) - all OK. Did some sort of check of house and decided needs EPS foam around (new) kitchen window and installed lintels above two of the three openings in dining+lounge walls- not in kitchen wall though(?) - Not really necessary due to plentitude of sarking in wall but its what he said...
Builder gang start work on that. (Inspection report says something about Timber moisture content that he couldn't check due to gibbed walls. Whats the moisture content of 100yr old heart rimu??)

Friday Plumber, builders, gibstoppers all at house - bit of a madhouse.
Linesmen out installing new transformer and drops for house.
Start filling in ditches over sewage lines till get digger on it.
Small digger putting in new line from gate to house corner for Power and phone line after which linesman lay power line to house.

Work on freeing stuck outside sash windows - loosen up and get all working
- 1 Lounge and both in Kitchen Unfortunately two of weights broke while doing so. Something for Dad to get onto.

Gib stoppers complete all of first Gib coat through all of house (finally)- they use stilts to get around.Mixed their gloop outside this time but still managed to get some splattered on ceilings and in dead center of Lounge somehow.

Didnt complete on Friday since not finished. Might make middle of Jan.

Dec5- Dec9: 2 days of General fiddling

Away in Hamilton Mon-Wed for shonaghs pump refill.
Plasterers been while away (Mon+Tues) - finished half the rooms in house then buggered off leaving a god-awful mess in the kitchen where they mixed up the plaster.
Didnt return rest of week.

Jamie stripped interior window frames and polyurethane bathrom and porch floors.

Fixup/gloop holes/gaps in bathroom and toilet floors.
Paint weatherboards for MBR gap in wall.
Crawl under house and nail boosters onto joists for nailing panel over floor
gap betwen lounge and Dining room (nailgun!).
Remove flashing from back door exterior wall.
Cleanup paint stripping on some of the windows.
Weather seal (new) Toilet window edges.

Finish nailing and weather seal exterior ensuite wdw edges.
Clean old wall paper off bathroom roof and wet then easily scrape off remaining stuck glue and paper.
Clean bathroom door and surrounds.
Clean old wallpaper/seal off porch interior ceiling, again wet and scrape off stuck on glue+paper . Now theres just the end of the hall alongsidethe laundry and craft room to do the same to - unfortunately its got a 3.8m stud.

Some more wdw paint-stripping cleanup - coarse wire wool and methylated spirits gets rid of final bits of paint and sticky paint+stripper gloop and brings out wood color and grain nicely.

Heavy rain from about 3.00 p.m Friday - area where spouting empties turning into a lake (also from gully trap off front roof onto and through front deck) so dig a drainage channel for some of water to get away and clear a temporary drain channel off lowest point of drive where water was pooling.


Peter+Darryl
Replace window in toilet with large sash window. Now get lots of light let into back end of house.
Frame outside of ensuite window.
Attach weatherboards and glue edges of missing weatherboard gap in MBR outside wall. The profiled the weatherboards themselves from 10inch pine planks using a jigsaw and planer - looks just the same as original weatherboards...

Evidently still waiting on fricking permit for septic and sewage lines.

Still to do:

• Pile garage
  
• Roof verandah
  
• Water lines from spouting to Tank and Tank to house plumbing in house
  
• Septic tank and black+grey water lines.
  
• Install kitchen and bathroom and fittings
  
• Attach power and finish electricaql fittings
  
• Complete Gib stopping and sanding
  
• undercoat/seal interior.
  

All by next Friday (:-)

Nov30-Dec4 Painting, stripping and glooping

Paint strip, clean, glue and gap fill Lounge door exterior removing
old green paint down to wood surface.(one full day)
Polyurethane (4 coats, one per day) Lounge door exterior.

Stripping: Spray on a layer of paint stripper, wait for it to work while scrape
risen paint off previous section, respray. Clean all paint off then finish with thin layer of paint stripper and wipe off with water. Use about a can and half of spray on stripper get it down to raw wood.
Door in good condition apart from some dark splotches that are a little softer than surrounding surface.
Try and scrape them off but no go.

Looks great after polyurethane coatings...
First coat bought out red color of wood but then it darkened some with more coats.

Clean and paint verandah support posts.
Give up waiting for roofers and remove old verandah iron roofing and clean and paint verandah frame and under-verandah house walls.
Gap fill and gloop gaps and holes in front of house and on kitchen front window overhang.
Clean wood sarking out from under front of house (inaccessable due to miscalculation with not removing before put in new deck), restack long beading and trim lengths and long plank and stud lengths so accessible from side of house and pile remainder of pieces under tarp in yard out of the way.

Peter+ Darryl:
Put edging on deck all the way around.
Make front door step off deck
Place Baseboards around road side of house
Bring back Interior Doors - replace jams in doorways, swung and trimmed.
Place Kauri fireplace surround and Rimu hall seperator grill in hallway
inset - looks really good.
Trying to decide where other fire surround should go:
In kitchen around pantry door? - not center on opening symmetrically.
Around gas cooker? - Too large and heavy looking above kitchen bench.
It has a holder for plates on the shelf so probably put in dining room against road side wall.