Welcome to a Modest Manor.
(if I was being really tricky, I'd link that to one with an open door and have a slideshow of the inside of the house...)
Woo hoo! A new house blog! This blog is for us, to see how far we've come, and for you to laugh at the things we've done.
Today was an interesting day. It rained, a lot. It rained more today than it has for the rest of the year. This rain fell because Nathan pulled the cladding off the southern and western garage walls over the last few days.
As the rain fell, we loaded up the trailer with old vinyl cladding (I keep typing that as clagging) and weatherboards.
$50 to tip the blasted stuff! We only had $55 between us! On a scale of 1-10 of good tips, this one rated about a negative five. No signs, no indication of where to dump stuff - you just drive out over everyone else's (non-perishable) rubbish, pray the tyres don't find something sharp and then get bogged in a soggy patch.
Yep, we got bogged. We had to lay the old cladding and weatherboards out around the back wheels of the car, after taking the trailer off. Not taking the trailer off would've been disastrous - going backwards would've jack-knifed the thing and if we were pushing the car from behind to get it out, the trailer would've run us over....
So Nathan and I pushed the car and D reversed it, and all this smoke rose up from the back wheels, scaring the crap out of us, as they burned rubber and paint on the vinyl cladding, but we got it unbogged!
I am still covered in tip muck.
We cleaned the rotten bits out of the hardwood frame (chisels are wonderful things!) and Nathan treated the areas with an antifungal copper solution. Now we can put the sisalation on and then put the polystyrene cladding on and render it.
Simple eh? LOL
anon!
1 comment:
Was that my car being talked about there?
Dad.
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