Moving slowly forward...

Well, magically, it's already been 6 weeks since our last post. Time is flying by, and we're ever so slowly making progress on the house. A quick summary of the past 6 weeks...

We had the damp treatment done on the 2 downstairs rooms...looks scary, I know, but we can now plaster the walls back up and not worry about everything having a nasty damp smell...

The nasty room (old blue apartment) with the treatment half done.

Same again with another view...

And one last view of the bathroom area...

The purple apartment half way through the treatment.

As you know, we got the garage doors installed after a seemingly endless mission. Of course, that wasn't the end. Even though the doors were installed, the electrical fuse box for the garage had to be moved because it was originally installed right in the middle of where our car now drives into the garage. So, just like everything else around here, that took a couple of weekends to complete with a combination of Andy, our neighbor Kim (a guy), and our friend Rhys over here moving cabling and installing junction boxes, replacing RCDs, etc. I can now say that it is finally complete.

Andy's handiwork to reroute the power cable under the driveway to enter the garage in the flowerbed.

We've also purchased the flooring for the open-plan living/dining/kitchen and downstairs. Our DIY bamboo flooring that gets to sit in the garage for the next ~4 months...

Last weekend, Andy was on a mission to be productive, and within a span of about 2 hours, he managed to dig and install soak wells on the side of the garage. I was very impressed!

Oh yes...and who can forget the garden! Well, after our hopes of getting the trees along the driveway trimmed were dashed by an insane figure of $1500...I decided that it can't be that difficult to do. Besides, most of our trees really do need a good hacking back...so that's been my mission for the past 2 weekends. I'll tell ya...my shoulders are going to be HUGE from all of the sawing! :)

After weekend #1...notice the very "pruned" tree behind the pile of leaves and branches.


After weekend #2...still a lot more to go. If I show you the driveway, you won't even be able to see that I've done anything!

And on the actual house front...our plans have been submitted for a building licence. Hopefully this means that we'll be starting work in the next 4-6 weeks. Don't worry...we'll keep you posted! :)