Wednesday 2 May 2012

exhausting.

I'm a bit slow on this blog, but exhaustion and crappy iPad have prevented me from posting more.

house has been re-stumped, electrician re-wiring half the house, new plumbing... oh what have we done. asbestos has also been removed, so no lining in the toilet and laundry. but then we've removed the plaster from the kitchen, thanks to the lovely plaster with fake moulded tile look. And tip, removing plaster ceiling is not fun.

Here are some photos...

the carpet is gone.

the asbestos ceiling is gone.
the plaster is gone.

Tuesday 28 February 2012

photos - before


 here are some photos before we touched the place.

front door

hallway
old carpet
bedroom 1 with nice vinyl wallpaper
bedroom 1 ceiling rose
bedroom 2 - with stuff left at the house
wardrobe left in bedrrom 2 - kinda wobbles
some of the coat hangers left in the wardrobe
nice fireplace - brick surrounds

another ceiling rose and chandelier
fake fireplace
glass door to living room

yep another ceiling rose
bathroom
bathtub
kitchen
nice tiles

window in kitchen - flower sticker
window in kitchen - flower sticker
laundry
laundry door
toilet
outside laundry
back verandah

bungalow

There was quite a bit of asbestos, so the bungalow and garage are now gone. The internal walls of the laundry and toilet was also asbestos, also gone. The carpets were removed too. Definitely looks different now.

Sunday 29 January 2012

week 1

Well we picked up the keys to our new house. We underestimated the amount of work that needs to be done! Did a measure up and realised that our 'plan' by the real estate agent wasn't exactly accurate. So the original floor plan for are renovation has had a bit of tweaking.

Also managed to clear out some of the furniture left in the garage, but unfortunately the nice old cupboards are covered in holes, eaten by something. No wonder when the garage didn't really have a proper floor and they were sitting on dirt. yep. The garage floor has some bricks, timber sheeting and carpet sitting on dirt. nice work folks. Will be glad when it's all gone!

As the 'garage' and sheds in the back are covered is asbestos, we've organised asbestos removalists to come in next week to take it all away. the only problem may be that the carpets and sheeting behind tiles in the kitchen and bathroom also have asbestos. shit.

Had a look in the roof and we have insulation, yay! not laid perfectly, but the house feels very, very cool. and very hot in the roof! and found the hot water tank in the roof above the hallway. What the? So definitely getting new gas hot water.

That's it for now. exhausted! Will slowly fill in details and take some photos.