Is that container next to your house supposed to be burning?
…asked the neighbors when they called us today at 7 pm while we stayed at the motel in town. Hell, no, there shouldn’t be a…
Author: Kiwi
We’re making power now
To keep the power bills low, we decided to go for 6 kW grid-connected photovoltaic system from Solar Electric that should produce around 80% of…
Fit-out
Hundreds of details to work on during the very last week before we can finally move in.
Gold fish
When we have got our three little gold fish for the pond in early October, all of them were still grey. We couldn’t see them…
Tiles
Bathrooms, pantry and laundry are the last areas of the house that looked ‘raw’ so far. The tilers did an excellent job and managed to…
Wastewater treatment with a wetland
Almost all rural houses in this area are not connected to a wastewater disposal network, they have to find their own way to get rid…
The kitchen is in!
The guys from Bays Joinery did a great job with our kitchen. They didn’t fight my unusual design concept and managed to create maybe the…
Painting the walls
These guys kept us waiting a bit too long, so our move-in date was postponed by 11 days. But they did a great work!
Moving again…
We knew that it probably wouldn’t work out to finish the house until our neighbors come back for this summer season. But the day we…
The broody hen
“broody” definition: A hen that is committed to hatching chicks is known as a broody. The state of being broody is controlled by instinct, hormones…