Demolition - Day 6

The skeleton is slowly disappearing. The pile of timber to be taken away, in one form or another, grows steadily.




South side of house where bedrooms used to be.



The back verandah once had railings too.

Demolition - Day 5

Well as Megan and Dave's house gets a roof, the old house lost hers. The zincalume has been removed. It looks very forlorn now.

It was too dark by the time I got home to take pics, but I will do so in the morning.

Bit of panic stations when BCC trucks turned up at 7am and started drilling on the newly laid road surface (of course). I went and spoke to the Stop/Go Man to make sure it wasn't the water pipes being dug. It wasn't. Phew! That probably involves actually having the plumber lined up ready to connect new house to new meter and is supposed to happen on 30th October.

Demolition - Day 4

Changes weren't very noticeable from outside on Friday. More removal of VJ inside and all the ceilings and cornices were down and stacked ready to move. One of the demolition men said that he thought it would be another week before it's finished!

Today they removed the weatherboards and most of the windows. There are still some VJ walls inside and I can only assume they have left them for strength.




Southside of the house where the bedrooms used to be.

Demolition - Day 2

It doesn't look very different from outside today. Inside they have removed some of the VJ walls in the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. They have also taken down most of the pressed metal ceilings. They hose in the roof to settle the dust, so the floors now have a coating of dust and/or sludge. It smells awful. I blame the possums for that!




The 'attic' - wonder if there were any flowers up there? It doesn't look as high as it really is. You can easily stand up; it's like a whole other storey.



Floor pic for Darryl

Going, going ....

Today is Demolition Day ... the demolition man looks nothing like Sly Stallone, which could be a good thing, and he is coherent.

Early this morning .....

End of the day .......





The old house is being demolished because it has to be either moved onto its own block (currently straddles two) or demolished before finalisation of sub division. We tried to sell it for removal but the company reneged at the last minute. I now have no choice but to get it demolished. At least the 'bits' will be used for fixing other old Queenslanders.

Empire Zoysia

This was a year ago.



Not a spectacular picture. Bear had to be in on the act but there are no Bearmines in it.

As the wheel turns ...

Wow! It's been ages since I updated.

As it turned out, I wasn't sole turfer (thanks the gods for that). I had sprinkled lawn starter and raked it in. The Empire Zoysia came on two pallets - 40 metres on each. I had only laid a few rows, when Stephen dropped in after helping Richard lay his turf, complete with the lil machine. He did a quick run around with it and flattened it all out better than we had been able to do; course the lawn starter all ended up where my driveway is gonna go - and doesn't the nutgrass love it! It took a couple of hours to do the lot. I was extremely grateful for his help. I slept well that night!

So a month or so on, the lawn is settled in and had it's first mow awwwwwww. We could also take down the fence keeping Bear off and he can now happily crap on it.

The sub division crawls on. The sewer and storm water are finally done, and all blood money paid to the Qld Govt via Dept Housing. $10,000 bond for a year, $2,000 to step foot on their property and an insurance policy costing $1,250 for a day's work - and the tenants don't see a cent of it. The electrical work was completed last week and I now have 3 green boxes out the front. Water is scheduled for 30 October.

And tomorrow ... they start to demolish the old house.

Sometimes the Kanga couldn't cope ....

Oops!