WEEK 3 OF JULY camping in our house

 Last weekend we moved our camping kitchen from the other side of the house to the actual kitchen area.  Tho we'r still camping and have no sink, tiles or permanent kitchen anything inside yet.  We're still using the makeshift sink on the side of the house.  We had to free up the arean, as the roof was going to be done this week.

 This is our lounge as we're living right now.  Dump zone.  Since this picture was taken, Mark has put up the cornices in the first bathroom, dinningroom, kitchen,  JJ's room to be and enterance hall.

Livng and doing school is becoming more and more challenging as the level of chaos increases.  I realised that we've been in boxes for almost a year now.  We're hoping to start moving into some of the rooms next weekend (tho no painting or cupboards are done yet), but it depends on how roof, celings, cornices and window go.  

WEEK 3 OF JULY = the roof

 Week 3 of July has been a mammoth week.  High winds delayed them being able to get up there until wednesday.  Mark said the wood they removed from this section was actually the worst in the whole roof (we thought the other side of the roof was the worst to start with as it was there that the roof was sagging).  He said that he could hear the beams cracking behind him as he stepped on them.  He also almost feel off the roof at one point in his haste to get done.  Decided rushing wasn't worth it after that.

You'll notice that Kara's skinny window has been removed.  It needed a lintle in the top as a structural crack had developed.

 They actually do sit down and rest momentarily during their 12 hour days:)  Here they are surveying the pile of timber they removed from the last part on the main roof.

 This is as far as they got by friday.  This picture is taken from the side of the house.  On the left you can see the next section of roof that will need replacing.  We'd hoped it would be ok but is also filled will bora, as are some of the window frames.  We're presently living in that section of the house.  It extends the length of the building.  

Weekend are always our clean up time.  Here Mark and J have loaded the old timber to take to the dump.  

WEEK 2 OF JULY

No pic's this week...  The kitchen, dinning room, enterance, lounge, first bathroom and JJs bedroom all have ceilings but nor cornices yet.  Battons ready in passage, second bathroom and our bedroom.  Ceiling out in Kara's room.  Just one ceiling to go in main part of the house.
This weekend we move the kitchen to the real kitchen area (tho we'll still be 'camping' as the kitchen itself is not yet ready) and we pick up the rest of our stuff from Sunbury.  We hope to move into the main portion of the house in 2 weeks.
Pray for no rain or wind for next week as they will be completing the last portion of the main roof.

WORK CONTINUES IN OUR ABSENCE

In our absence, Mmalae continued working on the house.  He removed ceilings in the passage, second bathroom and 2 bedrooms.  He also removed what wood he could and built 4 trusses for the next section of the roof.  Hard to take pictures of these but... he also gutted the second bathroom (removed tiles, shower and part of wall connecting the bathroom with the laundry area.  

This is the before shot....

 This is the after shot...  

laundry area is behind the photographer.  The basin will go where the shower used to be.  The funny lighting is cos the sunlight is shining in and the interesting decor is the electric pipes hanging down waiting for their new home.  

We got home on wednesday night, and Mark and Mmalae took the next section of roof off, redid the timber work and replaced it again in just 2 days.  Miracle workers.  

 Mark took this pic for those interested in the state of the old roof timber...  Taken from the old section toward the new section.  If you look closely you can see how motheaten the old timber is.  This was a surprise to Mark, who had expected this part of the roof to be better.  It is in fact, just as bad as the first part they did.  He says that the slightest bump causes the timber to crumble.  He says the roof sheets themselves seem to be the only part of the structure keeping the roof up!  You can also see nicely in this picture, the new design of the roof trusses which make it possible to make a room in the roof space.