Electrical Appointment

We met with the Electrician on Saturday, very nice guy! He seems quite practical and very down to earth, which is great. He gave us some really good suggestions regarding our fittings (most of which will save us money) and is going to redo our quote for us on the changes we are going to make. I'm sure we're going to work well together. He has agreed to do the fitout once the bricks are on, to save slippery fingers pinching our cables etc if fitout was to be done prior to lockup. I think he said probably 4 times 'it's just so big' .... I know it's big but geez it's starting to alarm me the number of people commenting on the size! I can see from the quotes what the 'bigness' is doing to the prices. Hmmm perhaps next time we'd only be looking at a small 3 bedder???? Hahaha yeah right! Although the pink and the blue one will be sharing a room for the next 6 months, so that we can use the pink ones room for a proper study. Should make life easier for organisation, theoretically. She's stoked to be sharing the room with her brother and even the blue one is quite excited. Winners all round! Site update: Bikeman has finished digging the trench and boxing it out (he's so clever) and the reinforcing mesh etc will be delivered this week. Once the reo is in we get to a very important (and expensive!) step - the building inspector will inspect the trench footings, and the remaining piers, and we can order a shite load of concrete to be poured into both. This is very exciting as it will mean we are two steps away from our/my first goal.... the slab! Once the piers and trench are poured, we can finish building the retaining wall, and then the roughing in will be done by the electrician and the plumber, and the concreter does his thing and the slab will be poured. Meeting with the concreter next week, which will be interesting ... have been told he is the best of the best so will be nice to meet him and it will start to feel like it is beginning to happen. On a personal note, the kids are visiting the Rizzos this week and it has been amazing how much I've been able to get done while they were away, even with working as well! Diz - I'll be sending them there every week for a couple of days, if that's ok. Hahahaha!