#2096 Saturday 5th June 2021

It's a long weekend..... and unfortunately the Monday on the calendar has (in very small print) "Queens Birthday NZ).  Of course Kaylia doesn't notice the NZ bit and she latches onto the birthday bit. " PRESENT" says she. .... and it's on.... she obsessed on the possibility of presents for her.  It doesn't matter what the present is..... she just wants a present.

And because it's a public holiday, the op shops are all closed..... so this morning she was happy to have a purchase of dvds that I put aside for Monday.

It's a beautiful afternoon and I'm sitting in my favorite place...... the new balcony.

#2095 Tuesday 1st June 2021

 It's been more than a month since the previous post ..... I was about to write "since the last post" ..... and I thought that statement might be prophetic!   

Yesterday was the funeral of Ian Moyses .... and as always happens at these family gatherings, people ask "What are you up to?  How about some photos?"  I put a few on Facebook but this is probably a better way to do it.  I can summarise the history of this project.

What has the project been?  When we bought this property in 2002, there was a side room about 7 metres away from the house ..... and this room was only one metre from the property boundary.  This was always a problem as it made access to the rear of the property very difficult.  

In October to December 2017, steel foundations were built to one side of the room (code name "the bungalow") and then in February 2018, the whole bungalow was lifted and slid sideways onto the new steel foundations.  This meant that the room is now about four metres from the boundary and only three metres from the house.

The next step was to  extend the roof of the house so that the bungalow  became part of the house.

Here the  roof extension has begun with a steel truss spanning the gap between the buildings. 

This view is of the main house on the right and the bungalow on the left.

Now the first stage of the roof extension has been completed.

This was completed 3rd May 2020.

Then the steel frame for the upstairs deck  was constructed. This joined the two buildings and allowed the roof extension to be completed.  The roof was finished 14 June 2020.

The upper deck sitting area  can be accessed from both buildings.  The deck was finished July 2020

 Here  the deck can be seen with the roof beams in place.

Further work on extending the roof.

 Here is a view of the building showing the original bungalow in blue below the added room in cream.

This is an aerial view of the house.  The roof part outlined in yellow is the extension.