Dad is helping me move everything on Thursday and Friday; and the carpet layer is booked for Friday morning. That means we could be spending our first night in our new home on Friday night.
Yesterday Dad helped me organise a bobcat / excavator guy to help prepare the front of the house for driveway and landscaping. It was a massive job as you can see from these photos:
This is the front of the house before we started work.
This is the front after the excavator dug up a lot of dirt and moved the wall back a few metres from the front door. Old mate used his bobcat to drill the holes for the retaining wall posts. Dad (and the bobcat operator) helped me put the posts in place. Well actually, I carted water because the tank pump didn't work properly and carted bags of cement while those more practical than I made sure everything was straight.
This is the wall at the side of the garage before we started working.
We moved it right back so that we can retain on the boundary. We'll fill the neighbour's block back in after we put agpipe and gravel and whatnot in behind the retaining wall.
This is the front of the house after all our work. It's taken from the same spot as many previous photos. You may notice that it's much more open. Next weekend (14-15 March 2009) the bobcat/excavator will be back to do lots of digging etc around the back and to spread all the dirt that got dug up from the front.
Am sure this blog will now be updated more regularly. Hopefully some of the pics are going to better show what we do than these.
3 comments:
I can't believe it! You're almost there. Your scenario with handover reminds me of our experience too. They told us it would be one week, then it got pushed back - twice!
In the meantime, the flooring guys we booked hadn't confirmed our date (we didn't know they had to) so when we finally got the go ahead for handover, they told us they couldn't come.
That pushed us back from moving in a few more days. In the meantime we got the chance to install all our roller blinds by ourselves. But just make sure you confirm your booking date with the carpet guys - to be sure they confirm your appointment.
I love the landscaping work to date. An excellent improvement and it's already starting to have your own handprint on it. I remember when we finally got to move in, we couldn't wait to put our own stamp on it either.
Enjoy the rest of the ride until the last packing box is removed from the truck! :)
Wow Andy!
It's all happening now.
Good luck with the moving in.
Hey Herbman the house is looking amazing!
Happy unpacking! :)
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