Roofed and Wrapped

Well things are zinging along at the moment.

Took the day off work and helped Crosie(only one argument, and if he had only listened in the first place ...) and we roofed the manspace - quite exciting that we now have an undercover area!




This week has seen Crosie wrap and put the battons on the walls and the ceiling battons inside - all go! Just awaiting the windows which should arrive Friday 5th March and the cladding - well on our way to having a place to live ....

Last weekend saw us go and buy all the bathroom bits - 3 showers, 3 toilets, 2 large vanity units, 2 small vanity units and one bath! It was a lot of fun and the team at Mico Plumbing in Paraparaumu were so much help!


We've also been busy little bees taking down all the pines in front of the section - which we are allowed to replant in natives, which will be great. Ex-firey Crosie is happier now that there is a 50m gap between the house and the first pine. Though all this was not without a casualty ... Crosie had a discussion with his big manly chainsaw! This lead us to the A&E area in Paraparaumu and 20-odd stitches later. he was incredibly lucky in that it was a nice clean slice above his knee, not a meaty chainsaw injury!


The difference in the view is incredible from when we first began to now. While we didn't see the tsunami wave, we saw its effects quite clearly with a very muddy line along the coast. Crosie was supposed to go out fishing that day, but was stopped at the boat ramp - all exciting and odd, as we had been talking about tsunami's the night before - around the time the e/q struck Chile.