Thursday, 4 August 2016

We're Gonna Need a Montage...

Well haven't I been channelling Underworld and "dancing underneath the radar"?

So much for this blog chronicling the ins and outs of building a house on a country block in southern Tas.

Update! Breaking! Newsflash! Our house is built and we are in!

Now for the movie montage where we condense 4 months of trials, tribulations and finally victory into a super short blog post.

We moved to the valley in April and stayed in accommodation until the end of May. This is when we couldn't afford to keep paying for somewhere to sleep so we moved into the house. There was no bathroom. There was no hot and cold water in the house (hot water came straight from the tank, cold from the garden tap). There were no lights. There was electricity in one bedroom. We were basically camping in the back part of the house. The first night was freezing. Literally freezing. There was frost the next day. Molly had our only heater. She was nice and warm in her new bedroom.
We set up a kitchen in the back tv room. BBQ on the back porch. We ran a long extension lead to the front of the house to hook up the NBN. The NBN. Bliss. I had spent close to $300 extra on phone calls and data on my mobile.

Anyway. The house took longer to complete than anyone expected. I stayed calm and patient during the whole process. I am a saint. The run around I got from various trades was enough to send anyone to the asylum. Seriously. I should be crowned. Queen of Patience.

Slowly things started to be completed. We got our bathroom. Then we got the undertile heating hooked up. Boy was that a celebration. Then we got the front of the house tiled. The plastering was finished which meant a little less dust. Then we got electricity and lights pretty much throughout the house. Then paint, kitchen, laundry etc. etc. etc. The weeks were marked by small victories.

Technically, in August, the house is still not completed. I have the flue guy here today to finish the range hood installation and the cleaner is coming to clean the floor tiles of all the paint, building adhesive, grout and other crap. The electrician has one light and one power point to finish.
It's. So. Close.

But today the sun is shining and the grass is starting to poke back through the quagmire of mud that has surrounded the house since the rain came in April. We have three gorgeous little chickens and I'm starting to see how we will plan our little farm.

And our little farm has a name. Daffodil Hill.
Finally after 5 years we got there. Here.
Time to get to work!

Turn up the sound and enjoy the montage. I'll post finished house photos soon :-)




1 comment:

Carmel said...

Great video of the process and what seems a long journey!