September 3: More Paving

Today I re-laid the pavers at the back of the house.  I still need to bed n the edges, fix garden beds and top-dress the lawn...

Saving the worms...

August 7: secondary glazing

Our magnetic secondary glazing for the original 100 year old windows arrived yesterday. I installed it today. Not as difficult as I'd feared. Certainly makes it obvious how out of square the windows are!

Here is the sheet, before installation. 

One window installed. 

Almost done

Now the test will be to see how well they stick. I've already has one 'slip'. I'll give them a few days before I attempt to remove the sheets. 

July 26: Paving Update

This week I had another 600 pavers delivered from Paddy's Bricks.  I've laid around 500 of them to almost complete the side path.   I just need to install edges and concrete them in.

The angled bricks are just there until I get the edges of the path bedded in...

June 15: paving

Yesterday I had 2 metres of sand delivered. I've since been fixing levels for the shed base and side path.  Just about ready to spread sand and start paving....

January 20: Our Window!

We salvaged the window from what was our dining room.
We sold it to a builder who was renovating the Star Hotel in South Melbourne.
Today we were in the area so had a bit of a pilgrimage to find it.

This is what it looked like after removal from our house: