Archive for January, 2011

The Slab gets Prepped!

Although looking at the pictures below, it may seem hard to believe, apparently the new place will be finished ready to move in about 4-5 weeks from now! These guys work fast!!

Below is the toilet/bathroom area showing the new plumbing and bathroom extension on the right. Tricky stuff! The bath sits over the shingle pile on the right. The 3 lots of upright pipes from the left are shower, toilet vanity and bathroom vanity.

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The 4x short pipes below on the right (behind the rubble) are under the hot water cylinder in the hall cupboard.

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Below shows the tweaks to the edges of the slab. To meet the new Fraemohs design style, they had to remove all the inset edges.

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Crash! There goes our house!

As some of you may know, our house was written off through damage caused by the Sept 4th Christchurch earthquake. Thanks to our awesome insurer, Westpac (Lumley), a new house is being built over the next 2 months.

Here’s some good destruction action!

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More rebuild pics to come!

Awesome Fiordland Trip!

I was lucky and blessed enough to be given the opportunity to go tramping with Gavin and some old mates on the Milford Track in Fiordland in Jan.

I went with Gavin, Darren, Gareth, Leigh, Simon and Annette. Awesome bunch of people who have all played a part in my life at some point. It was a great trip, and although the legs are a little sore, I’m glad I made the effort. Looking forward to another trip again in the near future!

It just drove home to me that life is too short to pass up opportunities and we need to get out there and experience things while we can!

Here’s some pics!

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The biker gang!

Jack and his two biker babes getting ready to cruise the mean streets of West Melton. Nice to see Jack starting young on the bikes!

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