Officially at Lock Up

Although we have been working inside for some time now we weren't technically at lock up as we didn't have front doors and a laundry door.  This has caused some concern, most notably when we came across a half meter long dugite in the house the other day (venomous snake for those outside Australia).  Time to source some doors and call Chris the carpenter from Lyall Building.  First thing Monday morning Chris arrived on site and in next to no time we had the doors installed. The man is a genius.

The front doors

The laundry door

With the remnants of tropical cyclone Olwyn heading for Perth and a forecast of upto 50mm of rain the pressure was on to connect up the gutters to the tank. As the north side of the house is going to be going into a seperate 200k litre tank which we are unlikely to purchase for a year or two we decided to buy a little poly tank and plumb one side of the house to that. We will then transfer water from that to the bigger tank. Unfortunately the rain hit before we got most of the pipes connected but we managed to get some runoff into the tanks.

The secret to a comfortable climate in the house is good insulation