Well it’s been a couple of months in the making but we’re almost there with the laundry. Here’s what’s been done up until now:
Fixed up the rotting window. Removed the tiles. Installed new cement sheet tile underlay. Installed cement sheeting on one of the walls. Removed the old toilet and replaced with a new toilet. [...]

Well, Tim has installed a new toilet, a plumber has come in to move the taps in the laundry so that our laundry tub can now be flush against the wall in the corner of the room and Tim has removed part of the masonite panels and installed some of the dado boards.
This is the [...]

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 [...]