Peter and Natasha

1. Batsman
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Good to hear the flooring is imminent.

2. Straw home
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...me that was made of concrete. I'd have to have some [url=https://www.floorstoyourhome.com/discount-laminate-flooring-sale.html]cheap laminate flooring[/url] at the very least. How do you keep the rain...

3. Tradie's
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...the lesson Peter maybe yor have to ask tradie to go around the holes or he may end up in it.Re Horsham and flooring it turned out not suitable for salvage but we are looking at a school in Marybourgh...

4. Go the Kiwis!
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... All work and no play makes Pete a dull boy - or so they say. I hope you are successful in resolving your flooring and underfloor insulation without holding up the build at all....

5. Hot water at last
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...the taps. Brilliant, absolutely brialliant! In other news, we have put down the first coat of our new flooring in some parts of the house, and this coming Sunday will see a second coat go on - y...

6. Goodbye yellow tongue
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

... the state and winds that blew me off the joists and damaged my knee, we were laying down the yellow tongue flooring. That has been the floor we've lived with since March 2010 when we moved in and it'...

7. One room to go
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...s over 6 months that we've been living in our house. Some of the tasks are large but they are few (ceiling, flooring, the walls are mostly taken care of!). We feel OK about spending a little time gard...

8. Bog blog
(Blog/Walls and Render)

...ked up a temporary air vent for it. So we're in business with the business of business. We bought some lino flooring yesterday, and I cut it roughly to size with a bit left over for safety but still i...

9. Owner Building
(Blog/Posts, beams, framing)

...our cycle. So here's the good stuff that came out of the weekend. We marked the rest of the rooms on to the flooring and now can see the shape and size of every room exactly, which meant we could cut ...

10. The house is dictating to me
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

Hot and dry and windy again.  I spent the day finishing off the little items of flooring which needed to be done, and I'm very glad to say it's all on now.  Just as I was finishing them up

11. First post the past
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...exciting moment following hard on the heels of the satisfaction of completing (well very nearly almost) our flooring and being able to galavant around without fear of maiming ourselves. As soon as the...

12. The only way is up
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... So tomorrow we will have a go at installing posts. It's amazing, we learn something new (like how to put flooring on) and we start slowly, learning as we go and building up to a faster and clevere...

13. The Fly Who Loved Me
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...la 1 part though. When I'm not looking at what's next I'm still messing around with the fiddly parts of the flooring, but now it's just the bathroom and 2 bedrooms to do.  I think I will need a f...

14. Squiggling
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...f the prep work for doing the slopey bathroom floor.  I rounded off the day with a couple of sheets of flooring and discovered how hard it is to get the tongue into the groove without floor dogs ...

15. Reflection
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ulation laid yesterday when it wasn’t as windy. So this afternoon Peter has been able to get heaps of flooring on. Yay! Yesterday a friend reminded me to enjoy the process, (thanks Cindy) as...

16. Oh ye southerly
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... the sloping bathroom floor but I will have to attack it on Friday. That leaves tomorrow as a simple day of flooring and stapling.  Natasha suggested I break up the stapling into small chunks so ...

17. More floor
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... shall have to laugh most zephyrously in their face. There are quite a few stages to putting down the flooring: cutting the insulation into the right shape and size whilst trying to stop it blow...

18. Hard to comprehend
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...lthy bean plants are now has-beans. So when we arrived this morning, several sheets of our newly delivered flooring had been lifted off their pile by the wind and one or two of them smashed into our ...

19. Ouch
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

It's a very exciting day today.  We have received our flooring and insulation so it's time to create some nice flat safe surfaces.  We went for an early morning start to try and beat the p

20. Tradesman tan
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...I had the final nogging in place and have started to trim the ends of the joists to be uniform for when the flooring goes on. Next I have to plane the tops of the joists down to a consistent lev...

21. Tom and Captain Najork
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... I've got at least another day left of noggings and then I'm looking forward to preparing the structure for flooring.  I have been doing some research on sub floor insulation and the thought of b...

22. Joist about there
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ying "don't be hasty".  Tempting to just whack them on though! Before we move on to flooring we need to do a few things - put in noggins between the joists to stabilize them a...

23. Funny Angle
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...resolved after talking with Brian again last night and I believe I have all the info I need to get to the flooring stage without further questions.  This build is a lot more enjoyable whe...

24. Joist a minute
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...'t no squares! There are a few odd quandaries to solve before we can finish our joists and move on to flooring.  But I've also remembered that now would be a good time to get Greg our elec...

25. Welcome
(Homepage/Homepage)

... contributed to building our house (and counting!) * Still to finish: bathroom; install recycled tasi oak flooring inside; install calico on ceilings; lots of 'finishing off' type stuff on inside (i...