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

Mixed Emotions

Mixed Emotions

December has been a busy and semi-stressful month as we have new owners for the company i work for but my job is safe so that's all i care about. My hours at work have changed so i now work 7:30am until 3:30pm which is amazing as less traffic to deal with and so it takes less time to get to work and home again. December is that time of over indulging, we had Kim's work party at the Melbourne aquarium and i had way too much to drink and we had our friends birthday the 24th so again i over did it, then Christmas as you do you go crazy again. Christmas is not always my favourite day but this year we had my family and Kim's family at our place so it was good. I have a feeling it might become the new tradition.
Our 2016 resolutions we will try to eat at home a lot more so i will be doing a lot less food blogs and maybe focus more on my photography and my coffee. We bought an exercise bike on the weekend so I am trying to get back to 70Kgs and i have been doing roughly 15kms a night which is huge as i would sit there and just watch t.v so now i feel like i am achieving something.  Since Sunday i have ridden 78kms which i am ecstatic about. I have a lot of photos that i need to edit but my spare room is a mess at the moment.

Do you have any resolutions ?
Thank you for reading.
Kind E-gards
Dale Stewart