And that’s (nearly) a wrap

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So we’ve continued our quest to wrap the entire building in plastic (ugh). The weather was overcast today which meant it was a perfect day for us to finish the wrap. Yesterday we did the front (in the shade), but were unable to even consider doing the south facing side of the house because it was so freaking hot in the sun. Today, thanks to an overcast day we were able to bring the scaffolding out and…

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Ta-da!

Yes, that’s one end of the house wrapped. Just the North end’s gable left…

We’ve also started toying with paint colours. Irritatingly, here a ‘tester’ pot of paint is about 500ml, unlike in the UK where you can get a tester pot that is literally enough to paint about 0.25 sq m.

It wouldn’t be quite so irritating, but they’re about $15 a pop. Which given we like to try quite a few different colours… well. We tried three, and don’t really like any of them. Tomorrow we’re going to spring for another two…

We’ve also finished the main attic floor (which means we can get on with more framing).

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And got all the joists in for the laundry/bathroom attic floor…

It’s all adding up to slow but steady progress. I’ve also been working on the outlet wiring and tomorrow plan to have a deeply enjoyable morning of drilling holes for the final bits of earthquake proofing.

We’ve also been putting oil on the interior window frames – and they’re looking pretty spiffy.

It’s not really feeling like the end is in sight, but at least maybe we’re passing the middle? And bits of it feel pretty good. The windows being in is a big one – and when we finally finish the wrap (hopefully this weekend), that’ll feel damn good. We’ve also discovered we can use “shop” grade material for our rainscreen – which drops the cost without being too damaging to the final finish.

One slight fly in the ointment at the moment* is that the grass at the back of the house is flowering/seeding which is killing my allergies – but we’re still waiting on the new battery (and blade) for the lawnmower (ordered a week ago, still no shipping notification), and our strimmer is out of strimming string. All of which made today a long torment.

I’m somewhat wary of how tomorrow will go too.

* Not as bad as a mouse dropping in the yoghurt

KateWE

Kate's a human mostly built out of spite and overcoming transphobia-racism-and-other-bullshit. Although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise. So she's either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity. Either way, it's all good.