Nearly Finished

This last week has been a rush of various trades to get things finished on time for Christmas. It looks as if we will move in on the 16th December as planned but won't have all of the features completed until early in January.

This week the LED lights were finished, the painting completed and plumbing installed. Kitchen partially finished waiting for a replacement bench top (the original is still on the Rena stuck on Astrolabe Reef).

Outside the driveway and paths are in, the deck is nearly ready to have its decking laid, the mowing strips are in and over the weekend with Jason's help I have installed the irrigation system which is connected to the water lillee system (see page on this system).

Here you can see the piping that is used, it is laid in a pattern to give maximum coverage under the lawn and every time we use the showers, bath or basins then the water goes out into the pump system and irrigates the lawn.

Here you can see the deck joists nearly finished and the front fence area starting to be installed.

By the end of the weekend I had installed the raised gardens and topsoil for the gardens and the lawn mix was starting to go down in preparation for the lawn seed to be sprayed on later this week. Here the front fence is partially up, just the gate and final corner to go in.

Looking back along the front you can see the final shape of the deck. The glass balustrade should be installed over this weekend along the front of the deck.

Things happening this week and weekend are, installation of the hot water system (but not the solar panels which will need to wait), downpipes finally to arrive, side fences and gates, catflap installed, carpets laid, kitchen finished, front door installed and painted, letter box, clothesline, deck finished, lawn mix down and gardens installed.  The house will get clean throughout in the next few days.Plants are being delivered this weekend and we will move in Friday afternoon...... Still plenty to do before Christmas.....