Yep, the plans have changed again.
The story that we are getting seems to be changing daily. Last week we would have to be out for one day this week, now we have to be out for four days next week. We had arranged a place to stay for this week, but then we had to change it to next week, which thankfully after about 24-hours of panick we were able to do.
We were wondering what normal people do when they go about lifing their house? Planning for this is proving to be quite a challenge.
Sorry that these are a bit late. We ended up having to spend a good chunk of Tuesday night at the hospital as my son Caleb was having problems breathing. The doctor was thinking that it was because of a cold that he had but that it could also indicate asthma, which would really suck. I had asthma as a kid and it’s not a fun thing to have to deal with…
Back to the house though.
When I first got home from work on Tuesday it didn’t look like there was much change from Monday besides the front stairs being removed. After taking a closer look at it though I could see that they had started to install the steel joists on the bottom of the house to strengthen it and start to level it a bit.
Below are the photos for this…
There are no more stairs up the front of our house anymore…
A view of under the house, there are a few new holes in the wall
Previous Posts in the House Lifting Series:
Northern House Raising showed up this morning to start the preperations for the house being lifted later in the week.
I’m going to be posting pictures of the raise and restump every day that they work on it. Below are the photos that I took tonight after I got home from work. It was dark already but the flash did a pretty good job.
It looks like now we will only need to be out of the house for one night, either Friday or Saturday. That is a lot better then when we thought we had to be out for the full week.
A few friends of mine have joked that I really should have purchased shares at Bunnings before I started doing all my renovations. Bunnings is pretty much the Australian version of Revy (for you Canadians) or Home Depot.
Although we did not purchase those shares, which I sort of wish I had now, we did get a credit card that gives us a point for every dollar that we spend. We can then transfer those points onto our frequent flier program with Qantas, which is a pretty good deal. By putting every expense that we can on our credit card, not only our renovations but also our every day expenses, we were able to fly Tamara and Caleb down to Adelaide for half price when I did the move from our old house to this one.
Now just to clarify things a little, we only use the credit card to spend money that we have and we pay it off every month so that we don’t have to pay interest on it. As long as we do that this credit card deal works pretty well for us.
I actually read about a pretty good little deal on a credit card in the US that is specifically designed for renovators. Basically it gives a refund of 1% on all your purchases, but if you use it at a home improvement store you get back 3%.
You can read more about that credit card deal here, houseblogs.net: A Credit Card with Home Improvement Rewards.