A long weekend! Starting at 7.00am Saturday with a visit to Bunnings to get compressed cement sheet and pre-mix concrete before Ben (renderer dude)’s arrival. The day ticked along with the measuring, cutting and placement of the Hebel slab, followed by cutting and placement of the cement sheet. Whilst I swore like a sailor building the formwork, Ben (Grub) worked on the first coat of render for the oven stand. Finally at 2.00pm I’d finished one section of formwork and…
The week started with a day by day block laying challenge. I promised myself to stack a layer each day after work. Doesn’t sound like much – but with limited time and sunshine after work it was a good goal. By Thursday night I was done, next operation was core filling madness. Up early to visit my new friends at Kennards Hire at 7.00am to get myself a cement mixer for this morning’s efforts. Next stop was Forster’s to purchase…
At 7.50am I carted a tonne of bricks to Welland Waste Depot to say goodbye to the old bbq. An exchange of $48 to the dump man saw me first in line to the rubble pit to discard the old red bricks and dream of exciting things to come. Note to self, next time I decide to demolish something I will get a mini skip delivered directly to the house. Unloading and locking broken bricks isnt for me.
After measuring, inventing, sketching, measuring, walking around in circles and some more measuring and thinking I’d decided that it was all too hard and that the old BBQ had to go! I’d tried to save it to no avail, and with the entire area needing a re-model it was time to consult the sledgehammer of destiny. The kids were excited, an opportunity for parent sponsored destruction – bring it! The only rules were, don’t kill each other and you can…
