Deck Cover Part 3

Day 6....

Day 7 (painting starts at 8am and finishes at about 1:30am!!!)

Tyrael and Tyryn came to lend a hand which was such a great help

About 9:30pm when I got home from the supermarket and Daddy Joe was about to start on his second coat by himself. The boys had konked out by then

 Day 8....Putting the ampalite roof on.

Once again it was a late night. The last screw was put in at 12:10am on Sunday morning. I was there to help for the last hour or so and it was cool to be there for the finale and congratulate my husband on a week of solid hard work (body and mind!!!)

He's done such an amazing job, so so so proud of him. And I can't believe how much more space we feel like we've got now that 's an all-weather deck....35 square metres more to be precise.

Pics to come from Dallin's blessing day.

Deck Cover Part 2

Day 4

Just what we didn't need! Faith was playing on one of the ladders (how many times have I told her not too?!?!?!). She tripped as she was getting off it and it fell into the window in the hallway. SO ANNOYING!

End of Day 4

Day 5....

I did a bit of painting on the fence by the trampoline so I had to take Dilly's baby monitor outside. This little thing gets carried around the house cause even though she's got a pretty intense scream, it's hard to hear through the closed door

 We all did the trip to Mitre 10 together yesterday afternoon.....not the best idea. I had 3 kids yahooing in the playground while I fed a baby and we waited for Daddy Joe to get more supplies (he always takes ages to get supplies)

Aunty Nae and Aunty Beezy, remember how we used to do abacus classes after school when we were little? I wonder what Mac and Faith would think if we put them into that extra curricular activity...lame probably!

Not today sorry Son

We got home from Mitre 10 Mega at 6pm and Daddy Joe went straight out onto the deck and said he'd work until 7:30....not cool with power tools at that hour aye Grandie, I tried to tell him!

Maybe 2 more days to go

Deck Cover Part 1

We've wanted to cover the deck for so long, but haven't gotten around to it (time and money, never enough of either!!!!).

The time has finally come and Joe the builder is 3 days in to getting it done. Still quite a bit to do but here's what's been done so far.

Day 1:

Day 2 (Emmanuel came to work for the day...one of Dad's concreting crew who lives down the road)

Lunch for the boys on Saturday

Emmanuel got put on fence duty. This fence has always bugged my husband because of the colour, can't say I ever think about it, but he's finally painting it black

Dilly slept most of the day away not worrying about the nail gun and saw right outside her window

Day 3:

Because the rafters will be easier to paint before the top goes on, we've had to start thinking about what colour our house will be when we finally get around to painting it

And that's where it's up to at the moment. Hopefully by the weekend it'll be all covered from the elements thanks to my clever DIY husband! And for a fraction of the $12K it would have cost to have someone else come in and do it.