Only two jobs today. Calling on Kay and Tamryn at Trinity Glass, and moving the front door from the Pump House to the building site. I bought it a year ago and is waiting in a container. Because it has panels of glass I talked them into letting me leave it there. The boys have loaded it on a trailer which bangs and rattles as I drive over the corrugated roads of Linwood, squeezing through rows of road cones. Fingers crossed the glass will make it. I'm sure the boys have strapped the door securely but I'm crossing fingers and toes. Cam and Josh unload it and carry it through its future spot... the front entrance of the house. As I'm leaving Cam waves me down. He's measured it and the opening... it's too big. We'll deal with that later. I can't take it back now.
I meet Rue on site to plan positions for grills, ducts and other paraphenalia that go with the air transfer system. He's an honest, hard working man whose quote was half that of a large firm with a big office out at Hornby. When he leaves he tells me he'll have half an hour for dinner before going out to a volunteer fire fighting meeting, before returning home to finish off paperwork. I tell him he needs to charge more so he can have more down time.
I call Kahu cos it's his birthday today in Arkansas. Tammy wants my say on whether he can pierce his ears. I'd say yes to a lot of things right now. As long as I don't have to make any more building choices today.
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| Cleaning the leadlights at Trinity |
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| Laundry door glass |
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| Bruce at the Pump House |
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| The restored building- one of the few old brick buildings left in Christchurch |
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Rue prepping for the heat duct system
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| Kahu's birthday in El Dorado |
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