All Gone

Demolisher's finally finished on Tuesday! 3 weeks it took....Not happy Jan! 

We were told a week, admittedly they started on the Monday looks like they did some stuff on the Tuesday and then it rained for the rest of the week, Monday was a public holiday and Tuesday and Wednesday it rained the following week...come Thursday and Friday no sign of any work it was cold and a little overcast but it was not raining! Its Monday again and still no one on site (I have to go past our block twice a day to drop off and pick up my son from school, also my husband goes past on his way home from work around lunch time, we got constant surveillance on that place lol). Tuesday Nothing as well, we made a phone call after that (we are incredibly patient people, but enough is enough!) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they were there but alias they didn't get to finish the job. I am sure they started at 8 and finished at 3! Monday AGAIN!!! No one to be seen another phone call, the job got finished the next day....Looks like they did a good job however there still seems to be a few roots in the ground at the front and side of the block, I hope that won't matter? Would I recommend these guys ABSOLUTELY NOT, and the reason being not entirely based on it taking so long, but for not having the decency to keep us informed about what they were up to!

On a Happy Note our site supervisor has our file and is organising site cut....YIPPPEEEEE!

Learning to be patient

Not a lot has happened in the last month, we are in limbo and patiently waiting to make our next move. Friday I spent the entire day sorting through one of the kids rooms and throwing out rubbish and broken toys, I managed to pack and throw out the majority of it, I am now left with a pile of toys, lego, duplo, barbies etc etc to sort through, some to keep and some off to charity.

We had to resubmit our landscape plan which we are currently getting done by designerscapes and I highly recommend them. We spoke to the lady assessing our council application and she said she will continue to assess it so there won't be any delay. I almost ended up in a meltdown over the whole thing...crazy I know but it has been one of those weeks! 

Started to look for a rental on Saturday, hmm I am glad it will only be temporary! There is nothing nice about these places. I do realise that our current accommodation is only worthy of demolition, but it has been our home for the past 10+ years, and I raised my children in this house. However I am not sure if  it is the accommodation we are looking for is not desirable because it is not or because of my attachment to my house that I could not wait to huff and puff and blow down! This attachment to the house has completely caught me off guard I am feeling so sad about leaving here yet I am so excited and can't wait to live in our new home its all this in-between stuff I don't like.

Hopefully I will have something more exciting to write about in the next couple of weeks, in the meantime I am having a lesson in patience.

And the winner is..............

Traditional method, un-finished timber floors.............

After much research and the fact that the floor needs to be laid before the doorjambs and skirting have been installed, we have decided to go the raw timber floors.
The reason for this is that they will be sanded and polished after handover and hopefully the tradesmen won't do any serious damage to the floor, and it's only scratched a little and can be sanded out.

I am very anxious about it but the majority of the work will have been done and hopefully nothing bad happens.

I did do some re-search on the pre-finished floorboards and came up with these difference compared to the traditional method.

1: They are installed just like unfinished floorboards however they are all the same size and can look a little uniformed or tile like .

2: No need to put up with stinky smell from the urethane, however the boards have a bevelled edge and the surface is not smooth.

3: A friend of mine has the pre-finished and complained that the polish chips if you drop things on it. I did see it and have never seen that happen with normal floorboards but of course they would get a dent or scratch they are timber after all.

Just a few observations that I made, here is hoping we have made the right decision!

Still undecided about the brick!

I have looked at lots of houses in the bricks that I like, and I am still no closer to making a decision! this is really hard, really really hard! I may have narrowed it down but I am not confident in my decision. I am usually so good with this kind of thing I know what I don't like so that has helped, but I am not sure that I like what is left over.

We have our colour appointment on Thursday so I hope I can come up with something!

Any tips or advice on choosing would be greatly appreciated

Plans are in the mail

Woo Hoo got a message today to say our plans are in the mail….I am excited just a little! I have been warned that Liverpool council will take 3 months but I was prepared for that anyway!
Feel like something is happening now…. So all going well construction should start around March/April.

Bricks means tricks!

Go and choose a brick, they say! Pick the brick and choose the rest after, they say!
Easier said than done I SAY!!!

Pretty much spent the entire day looking at bricks and houses built in the bricks that we like or at least we thought that we did!
So we liked 4 bricks ok thats easy NOT!

Once these suckers are put together as a building they look completely different. Some of the house's we looked at today depending on how the rest of the colour scheme was put together would enhance that baby poo colour in the brick or the brick went from what I thought was brown to red it has left me spinning in confusion.

It is not just the brick but the colours you put with it as well …my anxiety levels are at an all time high!

The way I look at it, stuff up the colour in the kitchen or the tiles in your bathroom and eventually these can be changed.As for the Bricks you are stuck with those F@#%ers for life and driving up my driveway and looking at them for the next 20 years or so and hating them is not the required outcome that I wish to achieve!

So back to the drawing board and back to Austral bricks to re-research our choice in bricks!

TiMBeeeeeeeR

TREES TREES TREES…..yep we have a lot! I am thinking that these beautiful trees have to go, yes! yes they do!

I actually feel very sad about this, I Love them but they are in the way and I promise as soon as I can I will plant more but this time I will make sure they are all native and not have a ridiculous root system. One of the trees we have has a very large root system and to me this is a worry.
We have to get them removed, who does this the tree guy or the people who demolish and clear the block?

I feel my stress levels elevating with every little or big thing that has to be decided upon ARRRGGGHHH!!! I am today having a particular bad day and days like these I think what the hell have I got myself into.

Anyway if anyone has any recommendations on Demolition people or tree people that would be great I guess the best place to start is with quotes.