Category Archives: Renovations
Master Bedroom Renovations Update
It’s done, the de-construction of the the bedroom is finished, Marion and I have stripped the room completely, dug a trench for the drains ready for the en-suite bathroom. This weekend consisted of moving the piles of concrete from the room to the hired skip. We have the plumber coming in on Monday to lay the [...]
Master Bedroom Renovations
We haven’t renovated for a while, we thought waiting till after after the summer heat had subsided before we started the next job. Mid March a temporary partition wall was installed to stop the dust and crap from moving into the rest of the house. The next job was to strip the room leaving it bare to [...]
Solar Panels have been installed
It has been over a week since our solar panels were installed, 48 100 watt panels in all. The installation used all the available north facing roof space with the remaining panels being installed on the western side of the house. Why did we decide to purchase the solar panels, guess there are lots of [...]
Bedroom Reno’s #2 Completed
It has been completed, job done, the renovations for bedroom # 2 are finished. Marion and I spent a full weekend sanding, painting, fitting doors, cleaning and getting the room ready. Marion’s son James has moved back into the room. Two rooms down…. the rest of the house to go. While we were working on the bedroom, [...]
Solar Panels, Roof Restorations and More
What a busy day on Thursday at our household. The roof restoration has begun, our roof has had the first stage of the process completed, which was the pressure cleaning. Today (Friday) the guys will come and replace any broken tiles, reset the ridge capping and make it ready for painting on Saturday. Our electricity [...]
Renovations to the bedroom #2 are still on the go
Renovations to the bedroom #2 are still on the go, over the weekend Marion and I managed to under coat the the bedroom and get one coat of paint on the ceiling. I have almost fitted the new door, and once fitted will be painted. Squeezing the renovations around our normal weekend makes it busy. [...]
Renovatons – Bedroom # 2
Saturday, we had organised our friend Grant, who is a plasterboard fixer to come over and fix 2 walls with plasterboard, attach cornices, patch and fill any holes that were needed. I had during the week stripped all the old cornices from the walls and removed all the fittings so it was ready to go on Saturday. [...]
Solar Panels
43 degrees the hottest day on record in November for Adelaide, the guy from the Solar Shop is on our roof taking measurements for our solar panels. Marion and I are just not purchasing half a dozen panels as you regularly see on the suburban roofs, our system will have 48 panels, and will produce about 4 kilowatts of power. The [...]
Kitchen Skylight
Friday Morning, the final skylight is due to be fitted, after seeing the huge amounts of light coming through to the hallway after they were fitted 2 weeks ago, both Marion and I were eager for the kitchen installation. Being 39 degrees today the Skylight installer arrived early to get the job done before it [...]
Air Conditioners and Skylights
12:30, and have taken the Friday off, so Marion and I can have 3 skylights installed and 2 holes cut in the brick walls so 2 wall air conditioners can be installed. The skylight guy has been and installed 2 of the 3 skylights. The 2 in the hall have been completed and are illuminating [...]
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