We’ve had a quote from a builder to make our laundry all nice, which has come in at $7,000 (even with us doing all the hard labour such as completely removing the walls).
So we’re going to change our plan a little and try doing this room ourselves (except for the plumbing).
On the weekend we pulled up the [...]

Tim ripped out to the tiles in the laundry on the weekend.

As I was carting all the debris outside I noticed that the sub-floor sheets that was used under the tiles (and installed on top of the floor boards so that  there was a flat area to tile on) had this printed on the underside:

So we sort of [...]

Yesterday I finally finished the paved step down to the sliding door of the shed. Before I made the step, the ground was right up against the wall of the shed. It wasn’t a great situation because when the sun beats down on those hot days the dirt that was up against the wall of [...]