Wow, we’ve been in the house for six weeks now, and when I actually sit back and look at what is happening it’s quite amazing.
You might remember my posts about the garden shed, some hard landscaping, and lawn. Well, I’ve been busy! Firstly, I built a workbench for the garden shed, copying the design of one I made previously for the garage (details below).
I gave the new Palmetto lawn it’s first cut with the new Bosch Rotak cordless mower (which is pretty awesome)
I’ve put the first coat of paint on the front garden beds, and installed the new letterbox facia, and as usual, have been moving sand around the place. It’s keeping me super fit!
Let me start with the lawn. I cleared out all the rocks and rubble, levelled and backfilled with some ‘landscape mix’, then compacted with a plate compactor. Rolled the Palmetto down, and compacted again. Not before installing some irrigation (MP Rotator pop-ups).
It’s been in for two weeks now, and had it’s first cut with the new mower. I sold my old Scott Bonnar ’45 and bought a new cordless mower. I wasn’t really sure at first, because I love my petrol powered gear, but took the plunge and went for it anyway. No regrets as yet. Super easy to move around, light, fast charging, quiet.
How about the workbench in the garden shed. It’s 1500w, 500d, and 900h. 6x legs at 900, four lengths at 1500, four lengths at 420, one laminex 16mm top, 18x 100mm bolts. Build it upside-down on a flat surface and the benchtop slots in nice and flush resting on the leg-tops. A design that works well for me. My garage has a 3 meter long version of this. I’m still yet to build a shelf in the bottom of this one.
What’s happening out the front? I’ve rolled the first coat of duraguard on to the rendered brick walls for the garden beds, it’s coming along amazingly. Second coat will probably go on this weekend once the new driveway has time to cure (is being poured today! more on this later)
Inside, I’ve also been busy, wall-mounting a mini-clothes line in the laundry, fitting sliding shelves under the sink, and getting started on the home network (computer wiring).
Today the driveway is being poured by Nugget Concrete, the same guys that did our liquid limestone out the back. We’re doing an exposed aggregate out front, so will have some info and photo’s up in the next few days!
If you haven’t already, check out some more Q&A videos we did with DAH a while ago right here
