Progress 7-July-2015

It's been nearly a month since our last post and plenty of progress has been made.

1. Painting/plastering -main hallway from front door through to open area has been completed, the Music room is done and the toilets have been painted.  All in all a mammoth plastering sanding and painting effort
2. Hired a Skip Bin.  The area outside the shed became a large rubbish heap in the last couple of weeks of the build where a huge amount of rubbish was generated from off cuts and general packaging.  It was good to hire a skip bin and get rid of all this junk.  The place no longer looks like a rubbish tip
3. Shed.  The inside of the shed is slowly being cleared of furniture and our life's possessions as we finish rooms and start to move furniture into them.  The shed is slowly becoming functional as space opens up.
4. Firewood harvesting.  As the cold weather is on us the wood heater needs feeding.  Thankfully we have no shortage of dead timber around the block to see us through this winter.  Cutting it serves 2 purposes, 1 to keep us warm and 2 to reduce fuel loads in the undergrowth and make the place more fire safe in summer
5. Rainwater.  We are getting plenty of runoff into the tank at the moment which is good to see.  We now have the money needed to order the second tank and have started marking out it's location ready to get the excavator into action
6. Continue to battle Telstra in our attempts to get broadband internet (this has been ongoing for 2 months already).  Honestly they tell you a different excuse every time you call them.  Telling me you can't get adsl where we are when all our neighbors have it then feeding us rubbish excuses that they can't even explain doesn't cut it (really what is interference on the line and why does it only effect me and no one else here?).  Lodging official complaints with them and threatening to go to the telephone ombudsmen seems to be doing the trick as we seem to be heading towards a resolution.  Now it seems it has nothing to do with interference and everything to do with a lack of ports.  We even have a case manager now and getting us a port has become a priority.

 Hallway freshly painted

Rubbish Pile Gone