2009 Demolition Derby

Monday 23rd Shopping day today. Off to Bathroom warehouse, electrical warehouse & Bunnings for plumbing and electrical bits. Mark needs to leave holes in the brick work for the plumbing to go through the wall so we needed to know what we are using. We both fell in love with a 900 x 1200 glass shower with a rounded corner - it will fit perfectly. Well nearly, Mark just needs to move the window over a brick & a half. Luckily he's only laid 2 courses of bricks above the window sill! Tuesday 24th I went back & fro between the computer and the bricks... Mark pulled out the front window bricks to move the window further over. Then he worked out where all the plumbing was going and welded the copper pipe for the shower fixtures. I knocked off at 3.30pm as I had our first TADA event tonight. Wednesday 25th We didn't do much today...just another course or two before we got rained out. Thursday 26th Mark pulled the external bricks out from around the front door and I stacked...

Monday 16th No work on the house today as Mark went up to Gin Gin to do some work for Robbie Ryan's brother-in-law). I paid bills, ordered the new doors and did ECU work. Tuesday 17th I cleaned bricks for an hour, then took Joyce to the Doctor and did ECU work in the afternoon. Mark laid more external bricks - we are now up to window height. He also pulled more old bricks out of the wall and setup the profiles ready to lay internal bricks. Luisa & I went to see the Grand Ballet du Geneve at His Majesty's Theatre. It was great, we both really enjoyed it. Wednesday 18th I had a big brick cleaning day - 9am til 3pm and by then my wrists gave out. Mark pulled another 100 bricks out of the wall and started laying the maxi bricks for the internal wall between the bathroom and the study. At 3pm I helped him lay bricks - I just cleaned up the excess cement on my side of the wall (hey every little bit helps). Tara, Nick & Bree came over for a BBQ dinner. Thursday 19th I went t...

Sunday 8th So much for a day off - Mark ended up taking the entire roof off and I carted timber from the front yard to the back & stacked it ready to reuse. Monday 9th 5 packs of bricks delivered. 2 packs moved inside the new front rooms. Tuesday 10th I didn't do any work this morning as I took Joyce to the doctor about her leg. Mark started pulling down the outside leaf of bricks from our bedroom wall as we need more old bricks for the external wall. I cleaned bricks when I got home. Wednesday 11th I cleaned bricks and Mark laid a couple of courses of bricks. We knocked off at 10am and got cleaned up as we took Joyce to the Lyons Eye Institute for her eye injection. Amazing the last visit and we finally sorted out the system and got through in only 2hrs. Back to the bricks in the early evening once it had cooled down a little! Thursday 12th I cleaned bricks & Mark laid a couple of courses of bricks before heading off to do some Cobra work. I went and did the grocery sh...