Wednesday 25 June 2014: Construction Day 6
Yesterday morning, Gary of Bryce O’Sullivan Earthmoving completed his final clean-up of his tyre and track impressions and left for his next contract job. Today Builder John and his men are scheduled to start on the timber shutter-work around the perimeter of the slab. The weather is overcast, cool and breezy and the TV forecast is not promising, but, hey, who believes television these days?
Whilst writing this, I hear this “Chirp Chirp” above me. Strange… I’m indoors, seated at the dining-room table. I look up to be greeted by a friendly chirping Fantail.
(Above): A male fan-tail. The fantail [or piwakawaka] (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is one of New Zealand’s best known birds, with its distinctive fanned tail and loud song, and particularly because it often approaches within a metre or two of people. This little insect-eater hover helicopter-like to catch the smallest of small gnats and other almost invisible creatures. He is quite at home in doors, and doesn’t seem bothered in the least by furniture, curtains or windows. It’s quite a job persuading him to get out, before the little bird droppings fall on upholstered furniture or curtains!
John, his son and three other workers arrived and set up site under cloudy skies, but the oilskins had to be brought out quite soon as the sky opened and let them have some of her best. Things started getting pretty wet…
(Above): The carpentry team start with the eastern boundary at the laundry door down to the dressing room corner at the secret garden, where John’s son (with the brown jacket) is standing.
(Above): The floor plan, showing the work being done in the photo above (marked in red), the remaining boxing of a similar nature to be done (marked in green), and the special work, involving steel ties to be bolted into the existing foundation (marked in purple).
(Above and below): John and his assistant working on the “green” section of the shuttering, while others get on with trench-trimming chores.
(Above): Aerial view of progress as seen from Tyler’s upstairs bedroom window.
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