Well about 2 weeks ago the council building inspector came out and passed the house without any additional requirements. Yay so finally I can relax and today I received the certificate of completion in the mail. I still need to finish off things, I still need doors on the pantry and linen press, fences all round, and a bobcat in to level the area behind the house to the pizza oven. Not sure when I will get around to those job as I'm looking at 700 bucks for cupboard doors. Probably $400 for a bobcat and fences $4-5k I suspect. I have started the front fence and just need a few days off work to be able get the palings on and oiled. I have the palings but not the oil and be looking at 100 bucks for oil. Front fence may or may not be done this year, unless I can sell something. I have a few old Jeep parts that I'm trying to offload without success so far.
With the trip to Adelaide I need to not spend anything on the house until I get back as I may need money for ute parts if I can get a decent deal on the few bits I need from Adelaide wreckers that are just too hard to source down here. Plus I won't get back to SA in a while so the RD 400 needs a fair bit spent on it and I won't know how much until I get the bill. I'm hoping he can reshape the heads for under $500 but I need to allow $600 just in case.
Next stage though is to find a block of land near Launceston and get a big arse shed at least 12m x 9m erected so I can move my tools and equipment closer to town, which will make working on the ute a lot easier. Only issue is trying to find a decent 1000m2 block under $100k is proving to be a major challenge..
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