8 Aug 2011: Started on site
9 Aug 2011: Site scrape
10 Aug 2011: Power & phone lead in installed
15 Aug 2011: Water tank & HSTP installed
17 Aug 2011: Footings poured
19 Aug 2011: External Plumbing installed
22 Aug 2011: Pad smoothed
24 Aug 2011: Slab boxed
26 Aug 2011: Slab poured
29 Aug 2011: Framing started
1 Sep 2011: Roof trusses installed
13 Sep 2011: Colorbond roof installed with anticon blanket
19 Sep 2011: Windows & Sliding doors installed
20 Sep 2011: Electrical & Plumbing first fix including PV & Solar HWS
20 Sep 2011: Building wrapped
26 Sep 2011: Brick work started
28 Sep 2011: Plastering started
3 Oct 2011: Skirting & Architrave started
18 Oct 2011: Joinery Installed & Wet area tiles started
Listening toAdrian has been kind enought to make a Google Earth file showing the location of Bremervale Arabian Stud in relation to townships of Fernvale and Lowood. You can get it here. Adrian has now updated the file with a route fly through from the Warrego Highway, at Blacksoil, to Bremervale Arabian Stud
If you need Google Earth, you can get it by clicking on the Google Pack button below. Looks like its not part of the Google Pack afterall.
I’ve set up tipping teams for the NRL & AFL, come and join us and invite anyone else who you think might be interested. There’s randoms cash prizes to win as well as weekly and season prizes. (It’s free to enter.)
Join the NRL Tipping Competition.
Team Number: 51973
Team Name: Titan Rap
Team Password: zoobombs
TO JOIN:
1. Go to http://nrlninemsn.oztips.com
2. Register for the Tipping Competition (or Sign In if you’ve already registered)
3. Click on “Your Team Ladder”
4. Enter the Team Number and Password details above
Join the AFL Tipping Competition.
Team Number: 51981
Team Name: Farmer’s Fingers
Team Password: eyes
TO JOIN:
1. Go to http://aflninemsn.oztips.com
2. Register for the Tipping Competition (or Sign In if you’ve already registered)
3. Click on “Your Team Ladder”
4. Enter the Team Number and Password details above
Wedding invitations have been made and will be sent out tonight. So if you’re one of the lucky ones you will receive an invitation in the mail in the next couple of days. We hope everyone can come and help us celebrate our marriage. You can R.S.V.P. by sending and email to rsvp@theburgess.net, phoning or old fashion post.
The floors are done, I tried to take a some photos last night but it’s really hard to focus in the dark. Note to self must get the lights installed soon.
The Hallway, no the first picture is not Black & White, that’s just the condition of the floor before it was sanded, the second picture is from Tuesday afternoon, first coat applied. Picture 3 is Wednesday Night, final coats applied.
  
 
The kitchen, dining & living area, first picture is from Sunday afternoon before the sanding got underway. Picture 2 shows the floor sanded and nails punched and filled. The third and fourth photo are from Tuesday afternoon and the fifth photo is the final result.
 
  
  
  
  
It looks pretty good, even the repairs blend fairly well, they match the filled nail hole colour anyway.
Leigh & I are having the floors in the main part of the house sanded and polished by Enviro Floors at the moment. So we’re practicing living out of a suitcase at Leigh’s parent’s place for a couple of nights, there just wasn’t enough room in the kitchen to get the bed horizontal.Â
We dropped in after the floors had been sanded and were surprised that they were actually a yellow colour! I suppose 130 years of ingrained dirt has a tendency to change the colour of things. It looks like the 3 days Leigh & I spent crawling around the floors replacing splinters and filling cracks and gaps will pay off.
We’ve finished painting all the walls, ceiling and cornice in the main part of the home as well, so the house is starting to feel livable, and once we have the kitchen in and a new bathroom we won’t want to move out.
 I’ll take some photos when I get home tonight, hopefully the final coat has gone on today, and post some before and after pictures.
We will be limiting everyone to 1 drink at the wedding reception.
