Our House is a Flamingo!

picture courtesy of Bronzi's Web Gift Store

 

Minus the pink, and the long neck and the beak and the feathers and perhaps the warm-blooded animal thing, that is what our house now reminds me of!


Want to know why?

The "stacks" have been removed! And now our house looks like this:

Once the concrete around all of our poles had set last week, the house raisers came to remove all of the stacks. Because we had only been able to hang fifteen (out of twenty) of the poles previously (mainly because the stacks were in the way), they had to prop up the unsupported areas with our trusty acrow props (for which the hire bill is getting ridiculous). But it didn't take long for Tom to get to work digging the remaining holes (with a hired auger piece since we somehow managed to break the other one) and starting to hang the last few poles.

While Allie checked that the levels were right from ground level.

Doesn't it look bare?! I hadn't realised how much shelter and privacy the stacks had given us. Although this is a view from the side of the house, you can see the effect. We now pretty much have a direct line of sight from the street to the very back of our backyard.

We then ordered another concrete truck, and Tom and Daniel worked like madmen to fill the last few holes.

We actually hadn't ordered enough concrete, so Tom had to go and buy some aggregate and cement and mix some up in the little concrete mixer we got from his grandmother's house after Christmas last year. He's a pro concrete-maker after all of the concreting we did at our last house (see here, here and here)!
 

Allie kept watch over the street from behind her plastic orange "caution" prison bars.

One small step for the renovations, but one giant leap towards us moving back into the house! Now to get the plumbing and electrical reconnected!