Heimic

Part of Sydney just got slammed by a nice storm. In fact this storm when it hit our area caused a good deal of rain. I checked out water tank before the storm hit and it was below the level required to pull tank water.

During the storm I monitored the flow into the tank and was surprised to see it overflow. The rain was coming down that quick that the tank couldn’t overflow quick enough. So it managed to overflow some what.

It’s crazy the amount of rain that can be collected in a short period of time when you have a decent roof area to collect from.

Our 4200 Litre tank is now full. So that down pour contributed atleast 4100 Litres to it. Guess our flushing of toilets for the next week in addition to our washing loads next week are all taken care of.

Happy Easter.

It doesn’t feel like Easter for a change. I guess that’s a good thing and probably a bad thing. In any case, hope everyone has an enjoyable Easter period.

Our Holiday is over, infact it was over as of last Friday when we got home. Over the weekend I managed to upload a good selection of photos from the trip, then can be found here.

The trip was good, the Australian Open matches we saw on the last few days of the trip were fantastic.

From last count it looks like the Golf did about 5030km for the entire trip. I’ll tally up the approx litres of diesel, but at this stage it was about 5.5 tanks (each tank about 45-48 litres each) of diesel.

Had the House warming last night and it seemed to go really well. Managed to show a number of people the new house all in one go.

The food was great. Got to love BBQ food. My mum made some of her famous sausage rolls and other stuff. It was all so nice.

I noticed today that a certain ship cruised into Sydney, and I thought to myself it seemed somewhat like a ship we saw last year while we cruised from Alaska to Canada. The more I thought about the more I am certain it’s the same ship.

The following photo was taken from the cruise ship Sapphire Princess. As you can see our ship we were on was a lot bigger, 2970 passengers I believe from the princess cruises website. The ship docked behind us in this photo is the same ship that just sailed into Sydney today. Very impressive nonetheless compared to the Sapphire Princess.

House has been completed, we picked up the keys yesterday and paid the final amount.

Removal’s are coming tomorrow, appliances are being installed tomorrow too. Hope it don’t rain while we are trying to move.

We’ve booked in to move on Thursday, so as the day fast approaches we still have to pack up a number of rooms. Namely the kitchen. Will be alot happier once the move is completed. Although the house still has a few things needing to be fixed, hopefully that is all done tomorrow.

On Thursday we have booked in a number of things to happen, so it’s going to be very busy. A/C is going to be finished off, appliances have to be installed, Telstra is doing phone service and Antenna guy will install antennas and booster/amp for all the tv points.

Soon as I have a phone line, I’ll apply for ADSL. Will schedule a bit of time to then setup of the new desks in the office and unpack the computer gear. I also need to make time to do the various network ports in some rooms. Looks like it’s going to be a busy few weeks going forward.

Yesterday our concrete for the driveway was laid, along with the concrete for the patio area out the back.

Previous to this the main living areas had tiles laid a few days ago, and the pictures below show how those areas look with the tiles. The colours certainly came up well.

Just when I thought we’d sorted out things, along comes another problem. My wife and I are seriously starting to get very annoyed.

It would appear the cleaners went through the house and removed the coating from the glass on each of the windows. In certain places the glass had concrete on them which the film hadn’t protected too well. So the cleaners in the attempt to remove it, managed to seriously scratch the glass in a few windows. So far my wife has counted at least two, however didn’t check every other one. We’ve since pointed out to site manager the issue.

No way should we be expected to just keep it as is, it should in my opinion be replaced and resolved for windows which show serious signs of the issue at hand. If the builder has an issue they can take it up with the people who work on site and continue to cause problems like this.

Further more the tilers were on site, and apparently had no power. Oddly enough the  conduit out the front for the phone that needed fixing had been done, so the only thing I can imagine is that while fixing it power coming from street was damaged (or turned off from somewhere and not turned back on). Soon find out, as I am going to go past tonight and have a look. Surely they checked the power box on the wall where the circuit breaker is, but who knows.

Like I said, it appears to be one issue followed by another, and most times it’s caused by people who are doing work and damaging things in the process (or not doing something correctly in the first place).

Just like yesterday, I could seriously choke someone, as I am so annoyed. Especially since I am stuck at work when most of these screw ups take place.

Mildly annoyed today, as I spoke with Site Manager about house and got completely different story about the supposed final inspection day and when it will take place. So this makes things a little difficult. Who do I believe, as either story means varied finish date.

Had hoped to give notice about ending lease, but it appears we won’t do that until we can confirm with both parties as to which story is correct. I am not really concerned too much if ones a little later then other, but of course we need to know and determine our last day at rental house correctly, to allow for a few days overlap.

Awaiting call back from both parties, so really could choke someone about now.