Spur Wing Shed House

At last we begun the cladding today. Only 5% of the house covered today. We should have a fair whack done by the end of June. That would be so good to see, as the blue sarking is a bit of an eyesore on the side of the hill visible to about 4,000 of my fellow inhabitants living north of the municipal refuse facility. We are tackling the easist bit first, being on the ground floor and under the deck. Beautiful sunny winter day today, but the winds are picking up over the next few days, which may be a problem.

I know it has been a month since my last blog, but my excuse is that it has been a crazy busy month. I have been evicted from my little rental house in town on account of it being sold. This involved lots of moving stuff and several painful days cleaning which I am not particularly accustomed to doing. I was set to find elsewhere to rent, but several friends convinced me to move into the shed on site. So I have been very busy extending the shed mezzanine to accomodate my necessary furniture while the boys built me a bathroom and kitchen at the rear of the shed. Paul said I would be without a toilet for a week and a shower only takes "a couple of days" to build. Piss easy, he says. So three weeks later it is still not finished and I end up having to stay four nights at a friends place. It is all done now and I have been glamping in the shed for another four nights now. Meanwhile a friend from the sailing club has been doing a bit of work on the house for me, plugging ...

At long last we finally finished installing the windows. Myself and a couple of helpers installed the two triangular windows above the deck. It took a while to work out a suitable method, but between the three of us inexperienced window installers we nutted it out. The key was to haul them up with a block and tackle attached to some robust straps. There is still one final glass door to do, and that is the bi-folds out to the deck. We have to put in the frame, and fortunately the window company people are coming back to assemble the panels into place. Today at sunset, I took the drone for a spin. As you see, there is also another addition on the roof apex. My nerdy obsession with weather, and my nascent interest in sailing have come together in the colour of my favorite metal. ...and finally to wrap up this monster bonus blog entry I have finally made a decision about addressing my problematic and aging Subaru. I really would like a brand new electric car, but financial cau...

We did it today! The machine beast under Scotty's control lifted the windows into the frame. The more we did the smoother and quicker we all got. So we did the three big windows at the front, and manhandled the two smaller windows into place in the study, at the rear corner of the house. I'm quite relieved that all went well. I have been having nightmares dropping $10,000 windows from height, exploding into a million pieces... We started at 7am and knocked off at noon. Weather conditions perfect. Virtually no wind. Quite warm. We have one more big window to do, and the two trapezoidal windows in the attic level, SW end. They will be a challenge as we cannot use the beast. Block and tackle may be the way to go as we did for NE attic windows. Finally the multi-fold door out onto the deck, will need to be assembled, but that should be straightforward. The remaining windows and doors arrive tomorrow morning, all being well. Here are a few highlights of today's...