Power to the people

We have power!! And a whole three days early. The electricians came up on the weekend to wire up the shed and put in the temporary power box at the house site. The electricity company were supposed to come on Thursday to hook us into the network, but they were getting full and decided to come and connect us on Monday. Oh the bliss of having e.l.e.c.t.r.i.c.i.t.y after eleven months of doing without it!! Had to turn the tele down now that we don't have the noise of the generator. It was lovely to not have to go outside in the dark and the cold to turn the genny off when we wanted to go to bed. Light goes on, light goes off, light goes on, light goes off!! Now that we have proper lights, we've discovered parts of the shed that we'd never seen before by torch or lamp light.

Last week, the building set out surveyor came out and marked out the house, garage and stables. This Friday, the backhoe guy is coming to dig the footings and we'll have our first inspection by the council next week. After the first inspection has been completed (and hopefully passed), we need to get a brickie in to put down a layer of bricks to lift the house up a bit and then the slabs will be poured. We're hoping to get the slabs down by Christmas time. With the Christmas/New Year break coming up we're starting to order the windows and external doors and the frame and roof trusses so that they can be delivered early February. Then the work will really start in earnest.