A Happy New Year to all

First work day of 2009, and the electrics of the old house really need disconnecting by a pro.  A call to Rene ( a local electrician, and soon to be neighbor) and he promptly turned up and made all safe.  

Today was the day of removing the debris from the broken down walls and starting on removing the wooden tongue and groove ceiling in the lounge room.  Guido Schelker supplied the trailer and some labour and the 360 kg of material was soon loaded ready for offloading at the local recycling center (actually a very expensive exercise).  

As more and more panels were removed the lovely old ceiling comprising wooden boards and beading was exposed.  The fact that we want to keep the ceiling will require us to add insulation beneath the floors in the bedrooms.

As the pine ceiling material mounted up on the lounge room floor, my mind quickly turned to what could be done with this material.  The obvious thing is to cut it into useable lengths and burn it. It really is beyond reuse. 

Guido Schelker (the father of Reggie) has a band saw in his garage which he would like to see located in our barn, so a new plan has been made to locate the bandsaw.  This will require some heavy lifting, and a supply of 380 volts.

On Tuesday I will hire a builders power board which will be attached to the main electrical supply.  From there we can run 230 volt machines and 380 volt machines.

Tomorrow Saturday is a road trip day to pick up  the trailer that we won in an auction today, so little will get done on the house until Tuesday.