Not a Chippy

Not a Chippy

Another day has gone and again we achieved our goal of building some shelves in the next cupboard, for those who are not Australian and don't know what I mean by a chippy. A chippy is a carpenter and by no means are we carpenters but as usual we gave it our best... First thing was removing the old shelves.

Every shelf / cupboard is build differently in this house like in the kitchen they had glued and nailed the shelves in. In the bedroom they just used a lot of massive nails and in this room they used massive nails and toggle bolts. They used about 2 to 3 toggle bolts per shelf with nails and normally 1 toggle bolt can hold 10kgs. Unless they had planned to put 30kgs minimum it was completely over kill. It took nearly 2 hours to take them off the walls. You have to be carful when removing toggle bolts as they can put massive holes in the walls. 

 

Constructing them is the easy part as we went to the local hardware store with the measurements and got all the timber cut to size. Then all you have to do is put it in place and screw together. The project took a about 4 hours.

We installed rails to hang clothes off but the total cost for today was  just under $60 to do.

Have you ever tried to install shelves? Now we have to patch and paint.

Thanks for reading.

Kind E-gards

Dale

Life In The Fast Lane

Life In The Fast Lane

I have been at my job now for just over two months and it has been crazy, at my last job I had a couple of hours a day to do what I want. I would be able to do Youtube, Ebay and blog but now I have not much time even though I spend less time traveling I have struggled to find time to do this blog. Over the last few weekends we have been renovating again and replacing furniture to make the house look less cluttered. We have been looking for a T.V Unit for nearly 2 years and we finally found the right one. We got the unit from Holy Funk Furniture in Moorabbin. I also added an I.r Extender so I can turn the amp on and off with out opening the sliding doors.

 I hated the wall mount that the other T.V was so I replaced it with a $20 bracket that sits a few centimeters off the wall.

Last weekend we installed adjustable shelves into a  cupboard and readjusted the rail because whoever built it was a Muppet and it gives us more flexibility with storage.

I hated my modem sitting out in the open so I got a Cube frame and ran all my cables up the wall and into the cube. We need to print a picture off  to cover the front but it will look good when completed but we have not had time to print off the pic so hopefully we will do that in the next few days.

Those who know me know that I love doing Latte art but I have upgraded my coffee machine and sad to say no more art but I got my new machine at an amazing price and could not refuse it. The coffee is pretty close to a fully manual machine but makes coffee from start to finish in 60 seconds.

I hope the terrible weather passes so we can go take photos, until then we have two more cupboards to fix and a lot of painting.
What do you think?
Kind E-gards
Dale