Thursday 28th April - Day 28

There was so many plans for today but yet again the weather had other ideas. I must have been mad to think that I could renovate with the roof of during Easter in Sydney. From all those years going to the Bathurst bike races at Easter, I should know that it ALWAYS rains at Easter. This year is no different with the possible exception that there is more rain than normal. With the last remaining sheet of flooring ready to go, this was the obvious starting place. Unfortunately I never even got up onto the 1st floor today and the tarp was nowhere near coming off. We did however achieve quiet a few things. As the 1st floor was off limits we set about to adding the kitchen ceiling joists in between the showers. It was 9:30 when Jo arrived with morning tea and very little had been done. Pete and Jo then planned to investigate the different types of hardwood flooring available when Clay arrived. So they left on their expedition and Clay and I stayed to do what we could. A bit of wiring here and a bit of flooring there. Jo and Pete returned at about midday with the very welcome news that Jo had decided that she wants Blackbutt flooring. I don't care what it is, so long as the decision has been made. Pete called it a day due to the rain and then Gaz turned up as we were getting stuck into the removal of the stairs and the dog tunnel under the house. Our dog Pippi had a "tunnel" to allow her to get from one side of the house to the other without going via the pool yard. As the new stairs will need to be built through her existing tunnel we will have to redo it when we have completed the renovation. In our attempts to remove the old stairs we discovered that the floor between Nichayla's old room and the old hallway was about 6mm different in height. So with Gaz's car jack we managed to lift the offending joists and pack them up with some leftover fibro, it was after 5pm when we finally got the flooring sheeted and actually level. I might make a start of the lower stairs tomorrow. Yet again thanks to both Gaz and Clay for their help and enthusiasm.