Probably not much to report here for a while until spring comes and we start on the yard again.

Since the last entry we have finished off most of the interior work. Although there were only a few things left to do. The final trim/molding around the wooden ceilings in the bathrooms and laundry is up. We bought one 10x pack of wood trim of about 2.5m long which was almost exactly enough for all the ceilings. The architraving around the sauna door has been done as well which pretty much finished all those things. The only bit left is in the fireplace room and is a half round piece for the corner where the brick wall meets the gib-board. There is a gap there that needs to be covered. I will have to paint that piece the same colour as the wall though before putting it in place.

There were a couple of other small touch up jobs that are now done and as of last weekend all the curtain tracks are up as well. I think we probably need to put up something in front of the rail to hide the track and the hooks, but that can wait a while. We even have curtains in some rooms, which looks a little strange at first.

The one major thing left to do is the “technical” room where the heat pump and other such things live. Although that is undercoated now it needs to be touched up, the finishing painting done and skirting boards, etc put in place. Then once that is done the concrete floor can be painted as well. Hopefully that will be done during the next few weeks.

Now that most of the building work is done the storage room can have a proper rearrangement and some of the building materials thrown out. The guttering system and the roof ladder/walkway has still to be put up though, so those things are taking up quite a lot of room still. They will stay there until at least spring, so in the end it is probably nearly summer before everything can be sorted out fully.

Not much in the way of photos at the moment. I hope to do a full “virtual” tour of the house, but that will have to wait for a little while. In the meantime, here are a couple of pictures from New Years day.

Haven’t been very good at this lately :-(. Although not much to tell at the moment either. Things are going pretty smoothly with the house. Still things to do of course, but nothing major.

Most of the stuff now has more to do with cleaning things up and puting everything in its proper place. But that seems to be pretty slow going :-(.

On the actual finishing stuff off subject, there is a few bits and pieces been done now. The flashing under the laundry door entrance is in place now, that just leaves a bit to go on the roof. The front entrance door is now straight in its frame (it was rubbing against the frame). The bits of moulding along the ceiling in the kitchen are back in place now. Part of the trim there had been taken down when the hanging cupboards were put in place. Oh, almost forgot, the new kitchen table and chairs arrive a couple of weeks ago as well and they are all unpacked and in place as well. Makes a bit of a change eating at a 6 seat dining table now :-).

Pretty busy again all week with work, and Christmas is fast approaching, so Saturday was spent doing shopping, etc. But also some house shopping things as well. Got a few bits and pieces for the house and also ordered our dining table and chairs.

Sunday we managed to finish the pantry shelves and clean up the yard a bit more. For the shelves we bought mounting racks for the walls and brackets, then some white laminated chipboard for the shelves. It took a few hours, but it looks like the shelves will stay on the wall :-). That was one of the major parts still left to do and means that we can rearrange the kitchen a bit and get rid of some of the mess.

During last week Pia arranged glass for the interior doors and that has been installed as well, so now they are pretty much finished too. The fireplace room has been cleaned out and we got a nice mat for it (see the picture :-). Although some little bits still need to be done there as well (along with sorting out the furniture).

Outside everything is well and truely frozen now as well. The was a snow storm in the city centre last weekend, but we missed most of it, but there has been snow off and on here since then and a few days of -10 or so.

A busy week, so not much house work done. Although a few bursts of effort since the last entry.

Got the interior doors sorted out. Some were mould damaged because they were delivered far too early and had to be stored outside (because there wasn’t a house to put them in). We are still waiting on an answer from the house company, but it was cheaper to take a plainer model door and replace all of them than to replace the damaged ones with the same model as we had. At the same time we got the doors we also bought a shower wall and installed that last week. We also have a new rubbish bin as well. Now we just need to arrange the rubbish collection :-).

Last weekend got a bit of cleaning done and managed to sort out and throw out most of the building materials, leftovers, etc that had been sitting on the back porch and in the fireplace room. We have had a rubbish skip sitting in the yard for a couple of weeks now, so that is pretty much full. Probably just a bit more rubbish to get rid of and they can take the skip away as too.

The weather has definitely turned to winter now. We had our first real frosts last week and this week it snowed for the first time this season.

A couple of pictures since the last entry. The first frost, back porch before the clean up and our new shower wall.

We have been here over two weeks now and everything isn’t finished yet, but it is getting close.

It turned out things weren’t quite as finished as we hoped when we moved, but it was enough for us to be able to live here. Over the next few days things got into a bit better shape. The final council inspection was a couple of days after we moved. Luckily they agreed that we could stay :-).

A few hiccups along the way, but everything seems to be working okay now and most things are nearing completion. At least we shouldn’t have any workmen coming here any more.

At the moment all the cupboards are pretty much finished. Fitted all the door handles, etc during the weekend and fixed up the remaining bits and pieces for those. Just a couple of things left to do. The main one is to cover the supports for the bar cupboard that hangs between the living room and kitchen. A couple of sheets of gibboard should take care of that though. The installation of that cupboard took quite a while too, as it wasn’t quite so straight forward as we were lead to believe. Funnily enough, when you are ordering those sort of things they are “no trouble at all to install”.

The work still to be done is to finish off the sauna (which is all hand made and mostly done this weekend) and to clear out the fireplace room and finish off the skirting boards, etc. The next main thing is to put the shelves in the pantry. Then that is just about everything done. After that all we have to do is arrange everything so that we can actually find things!

A couple of pictures of the kitchen and sauna

And the mess to clean up…

And the joys of moving…