And the Other project is ...

I am so glad our Garden looked a treat in January for DS#2s Engagement afternoon.

Today you would not recognise it!
A chance comment to a Tradesman at the Home Show gave us hope that a 50 year old problem could be solved.

From the day we moved in we have not been able to put anything on the floor of our Garage without it causing the underground water to leach up, drawing the Lime out of the concrete with it.
It is a mess.


To fix it, they can treat the concrete floor with special paint to reverse the process - but of course in order to do that they actually have to have access to the floor!

It is only a little garage, which I park my car in.  But it also has 38 years of Stuff plus DH#2s Fiance's excess bulky items stored in the back of it.

Time to empty it all out - onto the back deck and waterproof it for the next 6 weeks while the restoration is completed. (The actual job will only take a week - give or take the weather) but they tell me IF anything is going to go wrong it will happen in the first 6 weeks, so we are not keen to repack too soon.

Keeping everything dry on a 'Fair Weather Only' back deck involved pulling out a recollection and tracking down the store that sold "Rare Earth Magnets" which were perfect to attach some black polythene to our Steel Posts.

This Polythene is Industrial strength and I defy any raindrops to get through it!

So all we have to do now is wait - and watch a perfectly dry/sunny week pass us by.


While we waited we cleaned up, and repaired the rusted parts of the garage walls.
It is amazing just how much we found around the place to do the job -
We actually used some of that "One day it will be useful" stuff you don't throw out.

We patched the Corrugated Iron with leftover steel that came with our verandah roof.
Laid pavers, that were here when we moved in, on their side to protect the Steel.

And found stepping pavers that were the right size to go between the fence and garage to keep the weeds down.

In the process of cleaning and levelling the small area between the Garage and the Fence we uncovered  FOUR KILOS (8 lb 13 oz) of broken Glass.

And many, many Rocks, Bricks, Stones, broken crock.... and assorted bits of rubbish

We always hope to find something interesting but usually it is just glass and rubble.

This time we found an Essence bottle, several pens, a ring pull from a drink can, a couple of Spark plugs an old bone and a tin of Gloss Paint.

It was one of those jobs that we were 'always going to do' 

but never made it to the To Do List....

The tradesmen finally turned up yesterday - and so did the rain!