With the exterior almost finished I’ve been giving some serious thought to the interior. The Drifting Drab is currently the feature wall in the Theatre Room and Entry/Living. There’s also another dark plum wall in the Master bedroom (only until I repaint it), but that’s the same colour that the now Drifting Drab walls were, […]
Sunday morning and I figured I need to have another go at fixing this annoying retic. Even though both of the solenoids had been tested down at the retic shop, they only test the top electrical part of the valve/solenoid contraption, and after a bit more reading I realise that there’s a possibility there could […]
I had managed to keep a pot of the creeper I had at Stockley Road alive for the entire time at Ascot (that’s a tough creeper), and put it and another cutting of it into the front planters. The old creeper was so root bound it was killing itself, and it wasnt a nice plant, […]
oh so close, I finished the whole house Barefoot Beach… except for a small section of the rear alcove before I finished the tin of paint. I had another tin on hand but I’m having a day or two break from Barefoot Beach before I either finish off that piece or start on the Drifting […]
Oooh, finally. The retic just stopped coming on, took me a couple of weeks to realise the grass was dying and I hadn’t heard the retic going! So then the troubleshooting began. Dug up the wiring and solenoids, pulled joins apart, no luck. Error message on the controller indicated the transformer had blown so I […]
Progress slowed a little as I have had other work to do and regular trips to Perth to help sort mum with appointments and things, but finished the top coat to the front, around to the down pipe on south wall, which included recoating the front that had the Texture coat. The texture coat was […]
Another bodgy repair on the fence. A corner had been damaged at some point and the previous owner filled it with, I’m guessing, No More Gaps, the universal repair kit in a tube (*insert sarcastic tone). Doesn’t match render but slap some paint over it and the new owner wont notice… pffft. Anyway, let’s fix […]
Today I started cutting in the top coat to the rest of the house and hope to hit those walls with the roller maybe this afternoon, otherwise tomorrow morning. The second level bits around the side and back of the house are a little tricky to get to (out of reach of the scaffold), but […]
Finished the Barefoot Beach coloured, under cover walls of the front portico and upper level balcony today, then ran out of paint. I was tempted to start on the Drifting Drab darker coloured walls but decided against that and did other things. Pulled the station control solenoid out of the retic to get it tested […]
