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Builder Finally Found – He starts next Monday!

June 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Talk about being in the right place at the right time… There is a house behind my work that has been lifted and is the process of being built in under, like what we want to do with our place. At the same time a friend from work, who is also my boss, is having [...]

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Stairs Complete – Odd Tread Design

June 8th, 2007 · 8 Comments

The day finally came this week when the stairs were complete. In our original discussions with the contractor this was meant to be done back in July of last year, when we were down in Adelaide visiting Tamara’s Pop when he had a stroke. We are glad they are finally done, but they are interesting [...]

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The Stairs Might Finally Get Done

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

We just got back from nearly four-months overseas and on Monday got a phone call from our builder saying that he will be by this week to finally finish our stairs. When he has completed them we will get council out to approve them and then finally move on with finding a new builder to [...]

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Builder Calls it Quits

November 6th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I had previously written about our builderhaving his previous off-sider quit on him while working on our house. He had picked up a new apprentice and things seemed to be going well, until last week when he had to let his apprentice go. With this latest apprentice quitting he has come to us and told [...]

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