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).