MasterCard Takes a Holiday

While I was building the house in Martinborough NZ, somehow at the same time my Gold MasterCard had taken a short break in Rome staying at some nice hotels and flying Easyjet around the EU.
A warning to those using the Internet, your credit card details can be siphoned off and used without your knowledge.
Luckily the users only got to take a few $$$ what they didn't know, is I hardly use it and it was no where near its limit.
The card is now officially stolen, so now I don't have a working MasterCard.
Very hard to catch the crooks, from what I can see on my statement all the bookings and purchases were done on line.
Rome is one place we haven't been, I would really like to see it, maybe next time we go to see our 'children' xcxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx, good grief, that makes me feel old!.

Truss Me

The trusses are now all in place, it was all achieved with a lot of 'instruction' combined with lots of pushing and lifting but Mrs DIY and I did it!

The next thing to happen is the purlins will be fixed to the trusses, that's the things that the roof is connected to.

The last pic is of MrsDIY fitting the last fixing of the end gable truss.

Rain Day

After a day of high wind it's now pouring with rain!

I was able to put most of the trusses up despite the high winds, an interesting experience but it was made easier by having a movable scaffold so I didn't need to climb up and down a ladder every time a small adjustment was required.

I used to feel I had been doing a 'step aerobic' class all day.

As it's an inside day I will be in the container (workshop) finishing the legs of the island bench, these are out of an old Totara telegraph pole that I bought from the next door auction (see May 27).

Framed Building

The frames are all in position and bolted to the concrete foundation the only bit of the build which is not classed as ecco friendly.

The next step is to put the roof trusses in place, I will hire the crane from Mitre 10, the local hardware supplier to lift the truss frames on to the top plate.
These will be fixed in place using some over specified brackets, when they are in place it won't be going anyware.
Then its the roof...

I will be glad when the NZ and US elections are over, all we hear on the news is financial gloom and will National or Labour be the new government and will the Democrats be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?

Construction Starts and Stops

The build has started with the frames going up and now it has come to a grinding halt as the lower half of New Zealand is being buffeted by winds of up to 150Km/hr really a great time to be pushing around big lumps of timber, so its time to bunker down for a day or so till it passes over.
The met service tells us that it will be fine again soon like the news from Bush and Wall Street!
Watch this space...