Floor Tiling

Today is our first day of tiling, like all of the house building tasks it has been quite some time since I last tiled. But just like riding a bike it comes back quickly. We have spent a lot of time trying to work out which line to take but here we go and once we start there is no turning back.

 

It is a big day with sore backs, bruised knees , glue not quite everywhere but a lot achieved.

House painting completed

We have now finished painting the house and it looks great next job finish the electrical and start tiling

The first room is done and more

Well we have finally finished the first room, well a couple of touch ups but all done, Yippee!

 

We seem to have spent weeks now undercoating and painting architraves and skirtings so we decided to treat ourselves and paint the lounge and kitchen so we could get to see some results.

main bedroom

So with colours selected we are off painting. Tina is doing the walls in the main bedroom and I am doing the doors and skirts.

All in all a great result but another weekend to go before we can truly say we have finished our first room 

architraves and skirtings

So now we have fitted the ceiling fans to the rooms, well minus the blades, we not point getting does dusty already as we all know how much fun they are to clean.

We have started the long task of cutting all the architraves and skirting, here are some fit tests prior to commencement of painting.

Master bedroom

Well now that I am fully recovered it is all hands back on deck. We have spent some time deciding on Architraves, skirtings and final wall colours, which is not always a simple process. Several sample pots later we have selected, Solver “Intermezzo” for the walls and “Moccacino” for the architraves, skirtings and doors.

We have decided not to start with the bathroom, but tackle some more simple rooms first. So first stop is the main bedroom and that is one of the last remnants of the containers remain. We are going to use the original timber floor in the bedroom so we have to sand and varnish it.

Mast bedroom Pt2

Varnish day

We are back

Hi All, sorry it’s been so long but with special days and surgery we haven’t really done much building work of late, mostly garden work with more embankment plantings as well as the trees.

So while I recover we are doing some small jobs, like external lighting and internal lights

this job was pretty easy just a lot of getting up and down ladders.

 

 

 



The deck part 3

Yep the deck part 3, well it took a lot of weekends to actually finish it. Oiled and with steps not just a frame.

 

 

As you all now every good farm needs a name, and thanks to Jenna who gave us this name and Brian who plasma cut our sign, out of bits of shipping containers of course he it is. All we need is somewhere to hang it now.

 

Maybe I could hang it on my new garden gnome? ( sorry Blogger doesn't recognise rotated photos)

 

The Deck part 2

Back with the remaining supplies the deck was finished off including a couple of rows at the front. It is really strange because the house doesn’t look as tall anymore. After nearly 2 years of looking up to it we are now at its level. Oh better put in some stairs hey.

 

The Deck

May brought about the great deck challenge, this has been planned for some time with reinforcements being flown in from SA & NT for the May long weekend.

Unfortunately it was not a long weekend in QLD anymore, ah well a day off instead.

Here are the motley crew of workers

Work began at a frantic pace with joists being installed by the minute

As usual someone decided to mention that the Wet season may have passed us by. Well that was a little silly because in true Tully fashion it rained, and rained and then it rained some more.

Then it was onto the deck so many different lengths to choose from, lucky we sent for the experts, just look at that brains trust, pointing at bits of timber.

It all went together really well, apart from those screws you don’t need to pre-drill or countersink. (they will tell you anything to get a sale these days).

 

We had a great set up with all of us, drilling, countersinking, fit screws.

 

We could have got it all finished, but someone calculated the material wrong and we were 2 rows short. Anyway we all had a great time that weekend and nearly finished the deck great job done by all.

Cladding is nealry done

We are finally onto finishing of the cladding, the last row required a flashing to fix to the top of the container. This was quite tricky and time consuming to install but looks great. And then more painting Tina di a good job of this.

What do you mean more painting?

Well what would any smart person do who hates painting and has just spent all of Easter painting. That’s correct do more painting. Our supplier has not come through with that custom flashing yet. So what better than to spend another weekend painting. This time indoor painting, now that our cornice is up we have painted the ceilings.

 

Sorry about the photos it is very white in there at the moment with the walls painted in white undercoat also.