Finish Line approaches

Well, we thought 2 months ago, it'd only be a month to go.  Well, we were wrong.

It took a while to get around to getting the south concrete apron done - includes 2 drains like the 4 on the north side - and then get things organised to drill the extra depth holes and start the fencing.  We had to wait for the builder of the south side house to finish up with their rendering so that they could move the temp fencing off our land and the apron works could commence.  Of course, as we're learning, co-ordinating tradies is aiken to herding cats. The weather affects different tradies differently.

The fencing should hopefully finish this week, and then I've got a little bit of landscaping to do myself - get some scoria in, then stones down the side and bark at the front.

Inside, all the furniture has been delivered and I've managed to sort out the garage 95% and it'll soon be ready for the intended purpose!  A car!  Yes, just one... standard garages here in Australia aren't as wide as in South Africa, so if you have shelves or anything other than a car stored in the garage, there's just not enough space.  Not quite like the good old SA garages that had space for 2 large cars, workbenches, fridge/freezers and then all the rafter space.


The lawn is amazing.  I have to say that the landscaper chose well.  It's an amazing green, and boy does it grow.  I have to mow it every two weeks or it becomes a little jungle for the girls. Will post some photos of that too.  Strathyr's RTF is the name. 

They've started building on the site behind us, so within 6 months or so we'll hopefully have all our neighbours in - possibly the first block in our stage to be completely surrounded by completed houses. We look forward to getting to know all our neighbours better once everyone's houses are complete and we can all get on with enjoying our estate/stage without worrying about or dealing with any building issues.

UEH is busy fixing various things around the house and we're waiting to hear what Beaumont Tiles finds out about our polished porcelain tiles - several appear to have absorbed water and become 'stained'.  Which from what I've been told and read, should never happen with polished porcelain tiles.  Let's wait and see.