We had the incident of the leaning tower of the water tank. It had been ever so slowly tilting away from the house. Our builder quickly righted it.
After living with 4 barstools since the start of 2018, we decided it was time to change the single bench support pole to a two legs to enable us to fit all the stools in. That went well until one of the replacement legs was accidentally knocked out. The kitchen guy returned and was amazed to find that the leg had snapped off at the top - we'd thought it was due to only 1 of the 6 holes having a screw! A new leg was installed with all the screws in and both feet were glued to the floor.
Next we came home on Sunday afternoon to discover the Grevillea Robusta in our back garden has sustained some damaged in the windy conditions. Worried that the two large branches that were still suspended half way up the tree could possible fall onto the next-door neighbours power line, we logged a call to the SES. The result was a visit from the fire department who decided a chainsaw wasn't necessary and simply roped the branches then pulled them to the ground destroying part of the veggie patch fence as well as snapping a limb from the nectarine tree.
Next we finally committed to purchasing awnings for the two east facing windows (kitchen and study) and Katy's west facing window. This job has only taken us 2.5 years to do (the old awnings were removed as part of the renovations!) The kitchen and study awnings were fairly simple. Katy's room however was complex for several reasons - the window abuts the eaves meaning there is no room to fix a blind above and its is a casement window. Our only option was to secure the awning to the fascia board beneath the gutter and fix brackets on to the fence which the awning would slot in.
Installation went smoothly however Katy's awning was only taut at one end as the fence was not parallel to the house and it also sloped downwards!! The installers offered no assistance to this problem wondering what we were going to do about it. Andy and I were both horrified with this attitude and quickly called the owner who had originally suggestion this method as an option. He was extremely apologetic and fantastic in sorting it out. The same installer returned and constructed on site, a cable. He even joked about this being the smallest cable he has ever made! Not sure why he couldn't have made it during the initial installation when the problem was highlighted. Anyway we are very happy with the result and so is Katy.
The only issue now remaining is the pitter patter of feet we hear late at night or early in the morning in our bedroom ceiling belonging to mice! Andy and I ventured up into the roof space to look for any evidence to support our theory. Unfortunately the roof space is extremely hard to manoeuvre around in and we saw little proof of mice existing however we were unable to really access where we thought they were. Initially we placed mice traps up there but they have done absolutely nothing. Our next option reluctantly was poison. After a two weeks of being in place, we felt like the mouse noises had reduced but were still around. Investigating the baits, we couldn't find two and the other was untouched. We left another two up there and hope that our house will return to silence in the night very soon. Both of us don't want to crawl around in the dusty, itchy cramped space of the roof so next time it will be a call to a pest company. Lets hope it doesn't come to that!
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