December 2023

          Another job which needed doing was installing the internal doors. We tried to source second-had doors but none of the ones that we came across were the right size for our door frames. Josh bought the doors from Bunnings and he also bought a barn door installation kit as we had decided on a sliding door for the bathroom. The benefit of a sliding door was that you didn't need to have the room to swing open a doo. This would have created a problem, either inside the bathroom which meant there was no room for anything within that swing zone, or outside the bathroom.

Here you can see the door in relation to the whole room and the bedrooms beyond.

2024 March - the next door was one of the bedroom doors. For a hinged door, first you have to install the door frame. This was a kit from Bunnings which came with all the pieces of wood needed, they just needed to be cut to the right length. The door frame needed to be square and plumb, and since the door frame was a little twisted, packers were inserted at intervals around the door to make it perfect,

Here is a close up of the gap between the door frames with the wooden packers. These packers were made from offcuts of marine ply cut to size.

Below you can see the details. There is one piece of wood against the frame, then another piece of wood which is the door stop.

Then the door needed the hole cut in the right place in the right size for the handle to fit in. This door handle was another kit from Bunnings.

2024 April - Another job that needed doing was installing stairs to the deck. First the mini concrete slab (which had been poured into a wooden mould as a way of using the left-over concrete from pouring our footings holes) had to be moved over and buried a little deeper.

Then we got a stair kit from Bunnings which is a black metal support which is exactly the right size for 2 stairs. We got 2 of these. We checked all the Australian building regulations to make sure that the top step and the bottom step were all correct. The metal frame was attached to the concrete slab and also attached to the meta frame of the deck. Then two pieces of wood from Bunnings were attached to make the stair treads. This made it super easy to create stairs, and was pretty cheap too.

Also happening at the same time was more painting of walls. Of course this involved filling screw holes, sanding, prepping, cutting in and primer before the final coats of paint.