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Boxed the beam up and poured the whole lot with the help of my bro in law, 

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Made a jig to get the kerb angle right, 

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Came up pretty good, ended up having to finish it with my phone torch at about 1130 at night. Still too paranoid to take the gates down at that point after so long with them up. 

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In the mean time Rosie procured these farm style gates for the gap. And stained them in the same style as the front balustrade. 

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Put some hinges on the gate, 

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Pins in the post.. 

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 And voilà.. Painted and put back the original bit of fence that had been hanging around since 2016. This was also the point that I finally took down the security gates that had been there for 6 years, felt very exposed without them. 

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Since the posts are rimu I couldn't leave the tops exposed to water hence the bags. 

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Also while this was going on we had to repair every internal door that our friends the asbestos removal dicks destroyed in 2016 (cunts) this took a surprisingly large amount of time much to my annoyance as we could only do two at a time. Rosie also decided they should be white which shows up every fucking mark on the door. Lots of paint and rebogging went on. 

Coat, 

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Then recoat... 

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Also patched all the jambs and arcs while we were there, much cuntyness. 

More coat and recoat

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Rosie had decided she wanted a gold bathroom door, I persuaded her it had to be the inside only, 

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Got my mate to spray the metallic gold with a $50 fence sprayer, fuck he did a good job. 

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Actual looks pretty cool in the bathroom if I'm honest, but most people won't know till they shut the door. 

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Once I'd done the gate posts I sent about putting a drain in the center of the drive so no council Prick could accuse me of having runoff into the neighbours.. 

Took a while to find a small cast grate that would take 5 tons but finally got one suitable and plumbed a sump into the existing stormwater. 

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And marked out the drain. 

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With the drain done it meant I could put down the edging for the rest of the drive (which was a cunt in itself thanks to the ap60). Decided to go with amuri lime chip a) because its at a good price and b) because everyone always does the same shit, either exposed ag, asphalt or plain concrete. This stuff does pack down fucken hard, plus we also have it in the courtyard. 

Dug down 100mm and took away 23t of ap60/sand

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Got the first 15 of 43t delivered, should have really got the truck and trailer (30t) as they kept fucken me round with delivery's which was annoying. 

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Spread the first lot out, 

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Raked it out, this is just the base layer, will have a top layer. 

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Eldest was pretty keen to get on the compactor, let her lose on the 65kg while I packed it harder with a 350, also went over what was left of the ap and sand with the 350kg. 

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Just to mix things up a bit mother nature decided to drop 80mm of rain straight after the second 15t was delivered.. Filled up the front of the drive flooding into the neighbours, had previously bought a drain pump for when I did the driveway sump, came in handy for dealing with my new pond.. 

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This is just the clothes line base I had to extend.. Bought another tube from miter 10 and stuck it in the existing one, then cut the bottom of a bucket for some boxing.. 

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Then Christmas... Spent two weeks in the new (rental) house and came back on the 10th to finish all the touch ups and drive etc. 

The wardrobe looked extremely shit as we had done nothing to them from when the house was put down, they also smelled like the old house, spent a few days plastering in and around the existing shelves, taking them out would have made it easier. 

This is semi finished, 

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This is the main "drobe", had a huge crack right through the middle and had cracks in pretty much every corner, came up a lot better than I imagined, with two coats of paint also smells a shit tonne better. 

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Was also time to pull down the last tunnel house, 

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Loaded it half dismantled and took it down the road to mums place... Thanks mum! 

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Got an ex billboard tarp coming up from dunners as the "hd" ones from generic stores only last 18 months then they fall apart. 

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