About Me

Lots of people are aware of the funny idiosyncrasies of the Australian language...... a common tip for visitors keen to sound like a local, add an “o” to the end of each word, a ‘servo’ is a service station, rego is the car registration, the bottle-o is the bottle shop and reno is renovation. We are renovating our home, in other words, “we’re doing some reno’s”! This is our attempt at a blog, a way to describe the journey of the reno’s, an extended tale that's taken us from our little flat near a beach in Sydney, to our little miners cottage in Melbourne, come to think of it... we might call it the “reno blogo”.

Friday, February 11, 2011

When Barry Met Joyce

After the floorboards came up, we could see what was happening underneath.. it looked like we needed to clear out some dirt, buy some new timber and re-stump the house.

It was a sand pit.... for a while... and then Awesome Dan and Awesome Trent came in and introduced us to Barry & Joyce (that's bearers and joists for anyone wanting to get personal & technical) I've only just met them, so I'll call them Barry & Joyce.

Here's a pic of the sandpit plus the beginnings of Barry & Joyce:


The guys worked so fast, I think they had new Barry's & Joyce's down in less than 2 days (don't ask me which one is Barry and which one is Joyce) I have no clue!
Compared to the old ones, you can actually see that the old ones were in pretty bad condition:

Old:


New:


Old:


New:


Old Hallway:


New Hallway:


Meanwhile... this guy seems to know which one's Barry & which one's Joyce.. or he just misses his sand pit.


So the next stage in this exciting game is plumbing.. whilst the floors don't exist, Stu needs to lay all the pipes for the new bathroom, plus all the pipes for the new Hydronic Heating we're planning to install, plus lay some cables and any other stuff that needs to happen under the floors...
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