a whole lot of iron fitting
All the digging work is finished for now, the ground under the house has drainage and various other pipes and cables, and a layer of gravel. Today, and for the next few days Mr. B will be binding about 3 tons of iron together for the foundation base.
I have been doing my bit too, requests for quotations have been sent to get styrofoam & concrete blocks, water supply has been ordered (at grand price of 2767€ just to get connected to the mains water supply, here's one for Ireland how to collect more money...) and waiting to get quotes for windows and doors.
I have also been sorting out the registration of our cars to the Finnish system and tomorrow my car is going to get new headlights (or something to do with them) as they have to be adjusted to the "wrong" sided traffic here. It needs a few other bits fixed too but once all sorted we can apply for the Finnish registration plates.
Kids are doing fine, they enjoy the great outdoors, they spend hours and hours outside playing. Noah has adapted brilliantly into the day care, he's in a pre-school group there. Ruben is taking his time to adjust, but it seems to be getting a little easier each day, he's just doing couple of hours a morning and that's enough for him for now.
Hello to the Barretts. This is great - seeing all the progress. Ronan says fair play to Cyril for doing the steel fixing. Read about the new tax in Ireland for Water - probably amount of the same as your huge amount!! Hope things are going well. I think about you EVERY time I drivng past your house - so at least twice a day. Things seem quite over there - the occasional car outside the house - maybe the kids. Keep in touch. Lou n Ro xx
ReplyDeleteHi Lou & Ro, great to hear from you! All going well, we've been here 3 weeks now, feels longer though as I feel we have done so much! But still in a bit of a holiday mode as we are still in my parent's house, expecting to get the keys to our rental house within a week. Talk soon X
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