so much to do...so little time

For months now we've had a white board listing all of the jobs we need to a) get through to subdivision stage and b) onto the market to sell. Every week I take great joy in crossing one or two of these off (or four when dad's around), making the list look smaller and smaller. The only frustrating thing is the big jobs (like painting the house) that take weeks of work to finally cross them off. There's no satisfaction from the whiteboard until it's finally done.

Here's what we've crossed off in the last 2-3 weeks:

A small win from council (these are like hen's teeth) meant that we didn't need to get the (overkill) termite protection on our 81 steel piers - the ant capping and steel piers was enough. This saved us close to $2000. Ok, ok, so this is an easy job to cross of the whiteboard but in the mean time council have asked for further information on the carport - setting us back time to have drawings made up. It's swings and roundabouts, I guess.

We installed the orifice plate and trash screen into the stormwater pit, ready for completion. For those of you who didn't know (or care) what a stormwater pit was until I started banging on about them in this blog, an orifice pit restricts the the flow of water into the main stormwater pipe (so it isn't bombarded by everyone's stormwater run-off in a large storm) and pushes it back up into our O.S.D causing it to flood like a small grassy pool until it slowly retreats. The trash screen ensures no leaves / sticks / rubbish flows into the mains. The only thing left to go is the ladder debate with council and I should have news next week on the outcome.

Our dining room is now a dining room (and not a room full of boxes / sporting equipment / christmas decorations / etc.). We re-claimed the space and packed everything into storage with lots or room to spare for our extra furniture while we move the minimal amount when building our new house.

The slats around the bottom of the house (so you can't see in under the house) are now completed all the way around the house. Unfortunately the rain this weekend is preventing us from staining the slats and deck (maybe next weekend I'll have something else to cross off).

Jobs still to cross off include:

Occupancy certificate with council
Surveyors drawings for subdivision
Lodgement to council and final inspection on all works.
Paint house

This doesn't include the million other little jobs to get the house finished like: attach the kickboard in the laundry, hang the mirror, get rid of building material, repair that crack in the wall, put up a gate, etc, etc, etc.

Go away rain, we've got work to do!