Nelson -Tosswill Road Rental Renovations 90 Days / Covid 19 - Level 1 - 21 Days

Winter Solstice 2020 on Paddy's Knob

Life is pretty much the same when living on a renovation site - lots of small jobs going on in the back ground while waiting on the bigger jobs to come together.

Toilet window out

New window size

Bill finished off the plumbing in the new bathroom with young Jayden (the plumber) and has finished relining the walls and ceiling after packing them all with insulation. 

Checking new 
shower out

Now ready for the tiling. Luckily we have a good tiling shop near by that had an excellent special on. With it being a small room we have gone light to hopefully make it look bigger! 

An additional gadget Bill had bought on our way back to Nelson was a set of stilts to help him with plastering the ceilings. When I first saw him in them - I thought here we go....... two broken legs! But he has managed to master them and finds them really helpful. I still don't like to watch him on them - just a quick photo was enough for me. But if they help with the work then that is great.  

Bathroom all lined & water
proofed ready for tiling

Matt has been in and helped Bill with tanking the tile shower and have started laying the tiles- the tricky bit on the shower floor now done. 👌

We are still waiting to hear back from the Engineer which hopefully will be soon so we can make a plan for a remedy to our limited vehicle access into the basement.

With removing the window in what was the old toilet - now new bathroom where we require a smaller window - this has given Bill an idea of what the challenge is going to be like to remove all our old joinery once the new joinery is ready in about 3 months! Big job!! But he's up to the challenge I'm sure. (I hope).

He's finished gibbing two of the bedrooms and the hallway and now has the horrible job of plastering. Thankfully with my returning to work next week - I'll be away for the worst of it and then help once the surfaces are ready for painting. I'm returning to my previous place of work where I was 5 and a half  years ago to cover Tamara for 6 months maternity leave - thankfully not too much has changed in the systems in that time and I haven't lost too many brain cells as most of the job came back to me after my second day of refresher training. Will see how we get on next week.

Sunrise over Tahunanui Beach

With Winter Solstice last weekend - we are looking forward to the days getting longer (but unfortunately it usually means colder too). Vicki joined us on our walk last weekend to watch the sunrise up over Tahunanui Beach (Trevor using the excuse of going rowing instead), and then we all caught up at the end of the day to watch the sun set behind the Western Ranges with Pippa, John and Annabelle too at our "new" local park at Paddy's Knob with it's newly renovated grounds. I'm sure more families are visiting there now which is lovely to see.

Not quite Blade Runner 😊

Half way to Christmas now, and Spring on the horizon (gotta keep positive) the year is flying by. It's lovely having winter back in Nelson with mostly calm crispy days making our early morning walks almost pleasant. With early starts when I resume work, we will move our walks to the end of the day. Well that's the plan at this stage. Will update next blog!  

Planting grasses

Bedroom 2 - Bill's been sorting window frames.