As it turns out, I leapt to action a little too enthusiastically, since they didn't actually end up switching off our water in the end. Oh well.
Along with the news that our water would be cut off, we were told that when the bobcat arrived, he would be removing our stairs. Given that we had been expecting to have the whole weekend available to remove our essential belongings from the house, the prospect of removing everything without stairs was not an attractive one. We therefore sprang into action again, and immediately started loading up our respective cars with clothes and kitchen equipment. This was accomplished in record time, although unfortunately this too turned out to be slightly premature because no stairs were actually removed that day. I'm not entirely sure what lesson we should be learning here. Is it to not pay attention to anything a tradesman says? Or to simply expect most of our efforts to be slightly futile when they're involved?
After all that frantic activity, it was time for a well-deserved break for breakfast.
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| Tom looking guilty at being caught at leisure |
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| Equally guilty? |
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| Tom couldn't waste the opportunity of having a ready and waiting audience, so proceeded to explain the process of raising the house to us, using an empty 'Up & Go' poppa. |
Our giant steel beams had arrived the previous day, and we were interested to see how they would be fitted, given that they weighed 25 kilos per metre, and were about 10 metres long! A bobcat is very useful, it seems.
First step though, was assembling the 'stacks' to hold up the beams (and consequently the house), during the raising process.
And then the steel beams go up.
And of course, naturally, Tom was sitting at his leisure observing proceedings...
Just kidding, he was working very hard making phone calls.
While Daniel (brother) contemplated the world and life in general.
And so the process has begun!
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