Moving In

12 th August 2009

After a few false starts w we are finally moved in and what a roller coaster of a ride it has been.
We ended up extending our rental at Rosserdale Crescent by another week as it was just impossible to live in the new house because of everything that was going on. At one stage we had no walls and no floor in all of the sunroom and half the loungeroom.

From the discovery that half the floor was eaten by termites we have been on a ride that has a million downs but these have been balanced by the highs. we are now starting to get a real house and one that will be beautiful when it is finished.

It all started when we took possession and as previously described pulled the carpet back and discovered that much of the floor make that all the floor in the sun-room and a portion of the lounge-room had been destroyed by termites. We then went on to discover that all the walls in the sun-room had also been eaten and were no good at all. The first call was to get someone in to check the stumps as the house seemed to be on quite a lean.You guessed it. All the stumps were rotted and the house needed a complete restump and re level... The cost was not as bad as we thought it would be and so we consequently engaged a man to do the work. Not a job I would want that is for sure. For our house it involved crawling under the floor and digging a path before you and then moving the dirt behind you. The guys doing it resembled moles and were constantly covered in dirt. They also had to cut holes in the study and the main bedroom to get access so there was just dirt through the whole house. Not to mention there was no floor in much of the lounge-room and none of the sun-room. Just bearers. At times brad and I would just stand there looking at tradesmen as they continued to destroy the house. We would look at each other and hope to hell that this would work out well in the end.... The whole time thinking can this get any worse. Should we just bulldoze the whole thing - or please, please don't wreck anything else - we have to move in here in a week....

Nothing could be really done until the re-stumping was done and that took a week. We couldn't even paint as the guys were in and out of their mole holes and would just put dirt on everything. It was very frustrating and dis-heartening. We had to keep telling ourselves that it would be ok and that we were lucky the re-stumping could be done so quickly as the contractor put off other jobs to do ours.
Of course during the job the contractor had to have knee reconstruction done so that slowed down things even more.