4th Week in and... Huston...We Have a Doorway!

Very exciting to finally have a seemingly impossible idea come into being and look great at the same time.
Well, I think it does anyways...and to add to my delight, the sun actually shone for a few hours this afternoon.  I sat out on the verandah and had a long overdue cuppa, enjoying the lovely afternoon in between running back and forth to check on the door cutting progress between coughs and splutters from the dust!

Just finished the last of the stewed plums I cooked in early August before leaving for 7 weeks in Australia with family....Yummo. Cooked in their own juice with no added sugar or anything else. Just plums...from my own trees.

I had no idea it could really be done, considering the sorry state of the end room a few months ago, but give Zoltan some cement and a trowel and he's a wizz! So focused.

Zoltan still creating heaps of dust as he saws away at the mud bricks...I stopped him belting and banging away at it with a hammer and axe and made him use my little wood saw...which surprised him that it actually worked!

This was the hole this morning...

This was the hole at lunch time...

This is the doorway at 3pm this afternoon, with the dust finally settled. Looking into the end room which contains the cellar entrance...you can just see a bit of the cellar door on the floor...(it lifts up to gain access)

Looking from the end room right into the other bedroom, plus a 2nd bedroom will be in the area where the timber is up against the wall. It's still too wet to complete digging the septic pit, so Zoltan will complete the walls and special waterproofing coat to the floor in this room, as we ran out of the correct sand before I went to Australia in August. this year.

Getting a quote for a plumber to sort out the bathroom tomorrow, but I'm thinking now he won't be needed as I'm going to leave well alone in that department and keep all the fittings as they are.

Removing "the back to the future shower" looks like a nightmare with all the intricate radio, lights, pulse jets wiring etc behind it,  so we'll sort out a way to cement all the floor around and under it. I'm thinking it can easily be lifted up, instead of moving it out. It seems that could work.

The loo pipes are already in, the wash basin(an old kitchen sink at the moment) works well, and that can easily be dismantled and another vanity installed, so it looks like a fairly easy job now I decided NOT to add the 2nd bathroom into the big bathroom space.

I kept looking at the shower and honestly, it needs a big room to show itself off in...so I'm letting it be. Plus, I like the big light and airy bathroom, so the other loo etc will just have to go in the new section next year. End of story!

We only have to run some water pipes to the kitchen, about 4 mtrs or so, plus a waste water pipe from the kitchen sink in the new kitchen area to connect to the vanity waste or whatever and that will sort out the plumbing...at long last.

Found a nice under-bench electric fan-forced oven at the gas store today...$250 AUSD, plus cooktops range from $120 for a 4 plate gas to $500 or more for top of the range glass tops. No hurry for the top cooker part as I have a hot plate, which I haven't used since I came back and the wood stove I cook on now, so no worries there. Just itching to get the jolly oven in though, so I can finally bake stuff!

Very excited to have the doorway cut through to match the height of the existing doorways now, as I try and create the one style throughout the entire place to tie it all together.

That's all for now...
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