Week Twenty-three – there’s almost a roof, air-conditioning and 17 gets its own sewer

With regard to the roof, nothing happened on Monday. We’re getting some new roofers. Tuesday comes and everything is quiet. There is rain forecast but surely it won’t be that much? Try 26.8 mm in a period of about 1 hour which was very localised, 0.5 mm at the airport. So we now have some soggy ceilings, insulation and of course more water in the cellar and a unique water feature in the light of the ceiling fan in one of the bedrooms. Fortunately, power is restricted to the one power point.

The roof can’t be completed until the carport and front veranda go up. The veranda cannot be poured until the sewer goes in. SA Water estimated the sewer would happen mid-April. Guessing we’re lucky it was done a bit earlier. Third time lucky, they marked the correct spot and on Wednesday they close the street off and put in their bit.

At the weekly site meeting, a bulkhead over the shower is planned to fix the problem of access for the air-conditioning of the back of 17.

Meanwhile we have the roofers and the air-conditioning guys competing for space with the carpenters back Thursday adding some bracing and completing the ceiling joists in the stairwell.

The roofing guys complete what they can and will be back to finish off some flashing and downpipes once the Spandek panels and Alucobond work is underway.

Much of the ducting is now in place with the head units where they should be.

Friday sees the arrival of a crane to get the compressors in place onto the back of the roof. The builders toilet is moved out of the way so that work can commence on the carport.

Hopefully for the last time, water is vacuumed out of the cellar, with company from SA Water surprising again by sealing the hole over the new sewer connection on a Saturday.