Garage and Yard Tidy

Tidy up and burn rubbish from yard
Builders take away last of their stuff
Jamie painting house interior Overcoat
Finish trim hedge and cut long grass
Fill in gap under garage bearers over piles on two sides of garage
Fence stiles and steps
Put spouting on garage and attach to downpiping.
Make good wood storage area outside garage and move various lumber
stashes onto it
Yard all cleaned up.

Mon Feb 13
Measure up for front porch wood box and boot boxes.
Finish replacing iron sheet section in garage
Tidy up rubbish and wood by hot tub area of house. Arrange beading and
wood stored under house so easily accessible.
Stack up piles of corrugated iron and cleanup rubbish by hedge. Pickup lead
and flashing and store with iron.
Denail some pallet boards.
Unpack some kitchen boxes and Dining room packages

Tues Feb 14 - put up spouting brackets
Dad and Eb up. Get Eb to put in two stiles over railing fence, make
step for back porch while Dad and I remove old spouting brackets from
garage and lay new ones along string line
(70mm drop over 9m - probably overkill).
Fill in broken soffitt on far side of garage.
Get Eb to put corrugated iron siding around garage and dad putting in
rest of spouting brackets while I take Dads brushcutter to rest of barberry
hedge and long grass on hedge side of house.
( note to self - must get brushcutter)
Dad help Eb put new iron on house side of garage wearing my grinder
blade down from 184mm to about 40mm while cutting iron sheets. Cut
last piece with hammer and edge of my axe.
Tidy up grass piles and barberry clippings after they leave.
A whole lotta stuff done today.

Wed Feb 15
Layout seperator lines for Jamie painting Lounge - 2 tone
- dark lavender at top, lighter on bottom 2/3 of walls.
Makes rooms seem much lower.
Tidy up wood and rubbish on RHS of house, Denail old chipbd and place
in plant area
Adjust shed drainage so water not pool on topside of garage.
Go around shed and nail down shed edging over iron Dad and Eb put in
yesterday.
Place iron along back of shed and layout pieces for front between
doors and nail one section into place
Dinner in Town then to movies - "River Queen" - long turgid pointless
(a pretty typical NZ film).

Thurs Feb 16
Layout lines in Dining room for jamie to paint.
Finish yard cleanup.
Move piles round in shed, Put down big pallets and others in front of
car (2 deep) and rearrange rimu wood pile and put cardboard sheeting
down as surface.
V.V. hot day.
Over to Brendas for another load of clothing etc, empty all our stuff out of
her spare room filling car and trailer. Unload into office and spare
room, camping gear into garage.

Fri Feb 17
Placemakers truck arrive with planking, battens and spouting.
Jamie painting Dining room (second coat)
Darryl over with truck - move rubbish pile over to fire pit, douse with
petrol and set fire to it. Load house jacks onto truck
Dad arrive - We put up garage spouting and attach downpiping.
(testing shows water flows downhill in desired direction)
Install kitchen rangehood in afternoon.
Peter and Darryl back in afternoon to pickup last of their stuff and
take away their pile of griptread ( damn!)
Dad left brushcutter so cut long grass by gate (finding a fence post
and some offcuts in process) and decapitate all the docks I can find
in the paddock - in the process of doing that find a pristine offal
hole (complete with concrete cap and lid), some pallets and a 5 gallon
bucket presumably used as a honey bucket.

Shonagh tested that second phone line now working. Thank You Telecom

Sat Feb 18
Setup wood storage pallets on far side of garage. Find handle for
shonaghs gardening wagon and install that.
Move lumber from house from inside garage into neat pile on pallets.
Same for rimu sarking and beam pile under tarp in yard and move
roughsawn railings also to wood store. Cover with tarp.
Yard now cleaned up - landscaping may commence.
Line up with Brenda and Ger to dismantle the old shed/carport at end
of their property and take away. ( Dad idea but they're keen to get
rid of it).

Feb 19-20 Sun- Mon
Out to Makahu with load of pallet wood and rimu to run through
Dads planer. Came out very nicely finished. Get some wood for dad to
make boxes from sawn pile up at Dons and get some rubbish wood from
sawmill slash pile and cut to length for lining outside of Shonaghs
shade house.
Bring back another trailer load of boxes from whare.

The week of the MOVE-IN

Move boxes from storage into house
Move into house.
Move plants onto property
Appliances into house and installed
Jamie start painting house interior Overcoat
Clip Part of hedge
Washing line installed
Start unpacking boxes.
Phone line in and working

Tues Feb 7 - first night in house
Darryl at house with big truck about 9.00. Two trips down to Stratford to
empty stuff out of storage, bring back up to house and unload.
Big awkward stuff first (light load) then heavy load of crockery + books (:-).
Done by about 1.30.
Storage Bay emptied apart from last 20 boxes of books.
Setup Bed + sleeping bags -
Champers and steak dinner in house on Mums mothers old kitchen table
First night in house.

Wed Feb 8
Jamie painting (overcoat) porch/laundry bathrm + toilet interior
sanding walls between - sho chose a sorta yellow/white color - honey..
Appliances arrive: Fridge, washer and dryer and (later) dishwasher)
Delivery guys installed fridge, washer+dryer (no washer hose guide)
but just dumped dishwasher. Spend afternoon installing that ( prep
under bench surface and screwing into kitchen units so level and firm,
hookup power and water lines in and drainage line out).
Sho found my ipod Xmas present in stored stuff. Setup and leave
charging overnight.

Thurs Feb 9
Install ipod and plug myself into it.
Trip to Stratford in Forester with trailer to empty out and
cleanup storage bay. Leave Jamie painting hall. Pickup last 20 poxes
and 3 pallets and close it down. Back to house and unpack trailer.
Arrange pallets in garage supporting pump and in front of car parking
bay. Finish off garage temp floor front LHS.
Unpack tools and linen+ duvet boxes. Make bed using duvets instead of
sleeping bags. Man we're living now.

Fri Feb 10
Jamie painting hall and entry area.
Cleanup wood from front yard. Measure joist spacing under house for
underfloor insul ( mostly 510mm centers if anyone else is interested).
Over to Sues to pickup 7 pallets and 4 cheese stands on her trailer.
pickup a carload of our stuff from Brendas.
Clean out RHS of garage - put pallets down and move stuff back onto
them off dirt floor. Unload and stack the 3 spare pallets for lumber
storage.
Around this date Telecom finally got (a single) phone line on and working
- we asked for this (2 lines) the week before Xmas.
Charge up, plug in and configure phone.

Sat Feb 11
Finish floor in garage.
Put in washer hose guide and dryer ducting out back of dryer through
floor and under house (clearing 3 things off house Todo list in one day).
Plug doorbell holes in front door surround.
Groceries.
Take trailer down to Timpak and pickup a load of pallet wood. long and
short planks incl 20-30 pieces new unused wood( knotty and/or sappy)
Back and unload wood into stacks
Ipod fiddling - new playlists and culling of boring tracks.

Sun Feb 12
Brenda/Ger and kids and Maree over for brunch - show round house
Brenda and Ger off to look at house section while we look after kids.
Get Finbarr and Diarmaid to setup plant area and help dig hole and make
base for washing line.
Sho get a trailer load of plants from Brendas so unload into plant
area. While doing that get attacked by barberry hedge so attack back -
trim with hand hedge clipper back to rear fenceline
Make concrete and put washing line sleeve in place and leave to set.
Remove an iron sheet section from garage floor and start replacement
with pallet planking (since have lots of planking and corrugated iron
is a bit too flexible underfoot).

Flooring and camping

PolyUrethane wood floors ( 3 coats / 4 on travelled areas, sanding between coats)
Old Kitchen Bench units out of house
Setup garage floor


Wed Feb 1
Girls sanding floors (manually). Move stove and use sander on floor behind and some floor patches. Put 3 polyU coats on that and replace stove.
Girls polyU floor when sanding done - run out of polyU halfway up hall
(4 4L tins). Sho bring back 6 more tins but finish up using only about
half a tin.
Sand old scorch marks off hall fireplace surround.
Girls undercoat shos benches out on porch.
Sand MBR skirting after kait wash + go over with meths.
Seal pantry floor and gloop some more holes.
Better to do floor glooping after a coat (at least) of polyU so gloop not
inhibit polyU coating.

Thurs Feb 2
Sand and PolyU hall floor( jamie) and kitchen and doorways off hall - xtra coat on high traffic areas.
Pete and Bob move benches/pantry off porch into garage.
Coopers man by to deliver (small) load of wood stripper system we bought and
show us how to use it.
Cleaning out garage. Move benches and pantry to back wall and put them both up on
blocks. Level out dirt floor (RHS).
Drag sheets of corrugated iron over to garage and layout next to garage wall.
225 mm gap top of piles to ground so need to fill gap between ground and bearer with something.
Pickup Marees trailer from her place and get load of discarded pallet timber from Timberpak (Pallet manufacturer) on way home.

Fri Feb 3
Put in temp floor on garage - coupla pallets at back then 4x2
joists sitting on dirt with pallet planks and old iron as floor surface
Electrician by to fit plug in kitchen and fix switch and bathrm heater
circuit.

Sun Feb 4-6 (Waitangi day)
Out to Makahu for Cousin Wills daughter Libbys Christening and BBQ
at Wills after.
Take vehicles up to scrub paddock by bush and setup camp with
Will+Sam and Jackie+Gerard and all their kids. Me and Cormac+Finbarr
sleeping under Tarp - Shonagh in back of car.
Talking with Will over plans for a bach up there near trees on flat spot.