Yard Secure

Gates and block offs are finished, so happy with them and glad I paid an extra $200 for the black powdercoating!

Now I have to let it weather for a while and oil up the Merbau slats

First feature wall

Well my son is crazy about Orange and has been telling us for months he wants his new room to have an Orange wall......

So off to Masters today and grab a whole heap or orange samples, we worked it to 6 colours we would like. I think it is Toffee Orange

Gates and block off install

Had a call mid way through the day, my fencer Peter (Macarthur Fencing and Glass) is back out and finishing off the block offs so went past to check out the progress

 

Driveway process begins

The process for the driveway has started, even though the pour is at least a week away my concreter (Aaron's Aussie Concrete) is doing the excavation of the site today to save some time as he is also excavating the other job too. He has told me he will come back each afternoon to do little piece's of form work to make sure mine is done ASAP.

He is taking his kids away for a few days from Friday so will hopefully have the other place done by next Thursday and have mine read to pour early the week after

More soil, got a helper

Day 2 of the great soil spread and I got there early, there was a helper coming today (my father-in-law) so would hopefully get through it quicker...

I moved the soil and he spread it, worked pretty well and we got it done in a decent time. Wet it in a few times

Managed to have just enough to spread down to the edge of the dinning room slider so worked out well with plenty of room for the conreter to come in for the slab outside that area.

Today = Hardwork

Well I have moved a whole mound of soil today and my god it was harder than I thought...... was cracking along early in the morning but had some visitors around 11:30am and after they left it was tough to get going again....

I managed to move a whole pile!!

 

But it did not cover as far as I thought it would have....... maybe I did not order enough

 

Soil Delvered

With the gates and block off being done soon I have had soil delivered this arvo, 8.5 cubic metres for me to move around.....