The Mad Rush

Look out house, here we come... Pink the professional cleaner .... all ready to blow that dust right out of the house! I spent 3 hours blowing the dust out while she was at kindy, then picked her up and did another couple of hours with her assistance .... great little helper she is.

Pink and I having a bite to eat before starting the hard work. Pink's favourite at the moment is 3 party pies from the local bakery. Oh, and a shortbread man with smartie buttons. She was most impressed with my ability to build an inpromtu seat for her to sit on! If only everyone was as easy to impress as a 4 year old.

Our bath has a hob! Not quite ready to be in for good, still needs to have the plumbing finished then we will pack with insulation so that it stays nice and warm when the kiddies are having their bath. It also needs Villawood (waterproof cement sheeting) to be installed on the sides, that will be done sometime soon. Bath just fits (phew!).

Bikeman's latest brainwave... a cupboard between the theatre room and the study, so that the DVD player, playstation, etc etc can be closed away in the cupboard when not in use. Will have a cabinet custom made that is accessible from the study as well and can allow good ventilation. Cables all in - speaker, coaxial, HDMI, telephone.

Well the last week have been a bit of a blur - plasterer confirmed for Tuesday so it was go, go, go to get things finished before he arrived. We still had to put all the cabling in the walls/roof for TV, HDMI, speakers, telephone etc, and Bikeman had some more noggins to put in as well as finishing cavity sliders (and probably other stuff that I didn't even know about/remember). And BMU was having trouble getting onsite. And to make matters worse when BMU did arrive he advised Bikeman that there were all these noggin-type things that had to go in the roof ready for the plasterers, for their ceiling battens to affix to. Something to do with making the lines run the same way in the roof. So he set to it and because it's such a bloody big house it took AGES! Plus he had to run noggins on the floor for the plaster to affix to, where there was the drop to the lower level. So plenty of opportunity to use his nail gun.

So that was all finished and then last night BMU came to help with the last little bit. Which took til 7.30pm, with the kids in the car playing (they were sooooo good) and BMU and Bikeman working like madman (Bikeman was literally RUNNING from room to room) and the light of one measly spotlight, I swept all the sawdust up for about 3 hours. In the partial light, hoping that we got most of it and trying to stay out of the boys way when they were shooting and cutting.

Bikeman then headed back up there this morning to finish a couple of last minute things and meet the plasterer. He arrived at 7am, and put some sisalation over the triangle shaped window above the front entrance door to stop the rain from getting in, put up the 12volt cable we didn't get to on the weekend (for the sensor in the pump to tell it to stop pumping to the rainwater tank when it is full) and some more nogginy things. And he dropped his gun (eeep! - think it's ok though). And did the plasterer show? Noooooooo.

Phoned the plasterer and he advised he was still waiting on insulation batts, there had been a backlog. Hoped to have them delivered Wed, and should be onsite by end of week. Grrrr! So all that rushing and stressing for nothing. Ah well, at least it is done now.

Huge big thanks to Pops and Stevie B for all their help over the weekend. We absolutely couldn't have done it without you and we appreciate the time you gave up to help us out.

Over and out for now. Hopefully the next photos will be plaster photos ...... how beciting!