Work Continues

 

But it’s important to take a break and get out of the house, especially when the sun is shining! This is Breaker Bay in Wellington. 

We (by we I mean mostly Eric) has been working hard. 

The plumber was scheduled to come decommission the 27yr old water cylinder in our upstairs linen closet and install the new one in our basement room. 

This gave us(Eric) about 10 days at most to get the safe step to the room (shared in the last blog) finished and build a new platform for the cylinder and the washer and dryer to sit on. Needed to be 500mm/half a meter off the ground for draining. 

All was completed and installed successfully. We also removed the old toilet and painted the wall behind it, as we got a new toilet too!

There is still more painting and work to do in that bathroom but it is coming along. We were not big fans of the polka dot bathroom. 😁

The electrician followed and got it all working along with a few additional improvements to existing switches and outlets. He will be back again soon to install an extraction/vent fan in the upstairs bathroom. 

What else? We managed to unpack and inspect all the hanging artwork. Only one damaged frame- not too bad but disappointing non the less. We will get it fixed/replaced when we can. 

But getting rid of all those boxes was very helpful. Freed up more space. 

Current project is the linen closet. With the water cylinder gone we have more space to use. Yay!

Carpet for the rest of the floor- where we had originally hoped to restore the wood, has now been selected and ordered. And we hope to have it all installed in the next 3-4 weeks🤞🏻

It will be great to finally have all the flooring done and not have to keep shifting the remaining boxes around. 

Work is going well. Each week I’m getting a little busier. Still meeting new people, and learning more. 

Hard to believe that May is here. Time is moving at a very rapid pace. We have now been in NZ a bit over 7 months. It still feels like we just got here. And we are planning our first visit back to the states at the end of June. It will be a quick trip. Hoping to squeeze in seeing as many friends and family as possible. As well as some In-n-Out burgers and Mexican food!