McWhirter's

Finally got a very nice photo of our apartment building... been wanting to get one for ages, as it's a beautiful old building that has been converted into apartments. Can't believe I took such a great photo thru the car's windscreen at the red light out the front.

We Have a Deck!!!!

Yay!!!! we have a deck again... apart from the waterproofing issues, you can tell the old deck (top) really needed a makeover. It looks so much better now that its finished, all we have to do now it put all our furniture back out there.... and that is today's job... not the funnest way to spend days off. :(

Deck Up-date

Hmmmm.... still not finished, was supposed to be yesterday, that's why we got outta the house for the day. They have laid most of the deck, however, the builders discovered that the deck wasn't built very well the first time. All the joists had warped, and nothing was square anymore, so they had to measure and cut every length of timber.... a pain in the ass when you've got 40 square meters to lay. Hopefully we'll have our deck back and finished by Monday afternoon *crosses fingers*

Deckless

They've ripped up our deck... hopefully it won't stay this way

Renting.....

can be such a pain in the ass at times. We are just about to have our deck ripped up, as they didn't waterproof under it properly when they built our apartments on the roof level. So the poor guy who owns the apartment underneath has alot of water leaking through his ceiling every time it rains. To actually be able to waterproof the area properly, ripping up our decking is the only option. This would be all good if the building manager could organise things properly. For example, work is due to start tomorrow, but she rang us Monday to tell us the workman should be here to start work soon. Bit hard for them to start when we hadn't cleared the deck yet. So the last 2 days has consisted of clearing everything from the deck... lotsa fun when we have so much stuff out there like a BBQ, outdoor furniture and my rather large bonsai collection.

I got my one surviving goldfish Toby in an ice-bucket upstairs, our funiture in a storeroom on our level and my plants inside next to me on the floor. Watch this space for further updates....