I am about 90% sure I know who your retic quote was from ;o We got a quote recently too lol. (Although of course I could be wrong).
That is one massive fungus!
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Here we go- quotes, gyprock and fungus 522Apr 16, 2010 11:46 pm So I've looked through the fungi book. It could be dog poo fungus (Pisolithus sp.) Google "fungi field book". You can print it off yourself which allows you to remove and add pages when necessary not too many people know about fungi and even they have so much more to know! Re: Here we go- quotes, gyprock and fungus 523Apr 17, 2010 12:02 am Thanks Gone Ducky. I just gave up on "puffball" fungi. Today we had 2 more retic quotes. Both done professionally. Looking forward to hearing the costings early next week. We also had someone come and put in 3 more downipes ( Builders decision) and fix part of the guttering. Now we just have to hope when the painter returns to repaint the ceiling he'll be prepared to do the new downpipes at the same time.\ Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 524Apr 17, 2010 1:56 pm It's frustrating that everything takes so long to organise... I can see why some people just pay their builder extortionate prices to get everything included. It's exhausting running around getting quotes and trying to organise people to come and do the work in the right order. kexkez .....i spotted an odd fungus in the back yard area. At first I couldn't tell what it was. I couldn't resist pushing it over with a rock. I've taken a shot with my mug next to it for size. nasty looking orange colour underneath. I didn't think I should drink the remaining coffee after placing it that close to it. The bright orange/yellow colour underneath makes it look pretty nasty. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I would have drunk the coffee. Never waste a good coffee .....unless it was instant, in which case *bleurgh!* I'd rather eat the fungus. Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 525Apr 17, 2010 3:01 pm oh I dunno kek. Bigred suggested it was a "Dog poo" fungus. lol the name is a bit off putting. Not sure what sort it was but better safe than sorry after i'd broken it open and possible spores had been released. We are hoping our quotes will be in by Monday. ( we were told poss Sun by the last lot and Tues by the first lot to come on Friday) ATM we are favouring the last lot but it depends on their final price. argh still have painting to come for the 3 new downpipes and inside the house. we'll see. bl00dy maintenance crew takes forever. Also need a few fine days so the fire guy can get his work backlog finished and then we'll have a real fire going too which will be nice. hmm all we need now is to win lotto and/or find a cheap licensed trayback ute and we are set... <dreaming> Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 526Apr 17, 2010 3:15 pm Huh. I think all builders are the same when it comes to maintenance. I'm sick of looking at the big patches of bare plaster everywhere.... the plasterer came two months ago. Painters and various other trades are booked for next Friday, so hopefully the end is in sight. 17 months from handover, but who's counting? You need the patience of a Buddhist monk. Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 527Apr 17, 2010 3:51 pm yup hubby does a Monday morning phone call every week. ticks it off when he's done it and writes notes on what is said etc etc immediately he gets off the phone. Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 528Apr 17, 2010 9:08 pm Kez the retic guys sounds like d*odgy bobs... don't go with him for anything lol.. Your house and gardens are looking fantastic Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 529Apr 17, 2010 9:38 pm HI Yup we've actually had 3 retic quotes and will be picking from the 2nd or the 3rd at this stage. Def not the 1st one. Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 530Apr 30, 2010 7:07 pm 1. Only 1 Retic /landscape quote came back and it was Over priced. need new quotes. 2. bought a ute. woohoo 3. New downpipes work beautifully. 4. Painter was here again today attempting to repair the ceiling work. He told Dh it's the worst ceiling he's ever had to deal with. They've even put a few more pieces of timber in our ceiling! At the end of the day he's hoping that the final coat he's done in the office will be ok. Fingers crossed when it dries as atm it still isn't brilliant. There is now talk of either tinting the ceiling paint so it's not a standard white colour or of using textured paint which I'm not keen on at all. ( over my dead body could have been the phrase that went through my head)The painter is also going to talk to his boss about suggesting they offer us downlights in place of the standard batten lights as these would mean the flaws would not show up. Sorry I'm not interested! 2 lights are in the office, one in the lounge ( our pretend home theatre) 2 in the main living area ( hmm nope, don't want downlights there as we have feature downlights in our kitchen in the same area) and one in the kids playroom. downlights are not appropriate for any of those areas except maybe if they swapped the 1 light in the lounge for 4 downlights. ( like that is going to happen. Plus more patching? I think not) Once we have the $ to put in proper oyster lights the shadowing that really shows up the flaws in the ceiling might not be there. We'll have to wait. I doubt they will pay us to put oyster lights in. Our painter went across the road to check out the build by the same company which is currently at paint stage. He wanted to see what the ceilings were like over there. DH went with him to "check it out" and said he came back muttering that although they were better than ours they still were not great. The problem it seems ( this is being relayed 2nd hand so how much is exactly what was said...) ****** with the original ceiling fixers and then the painters who didn't stop when they must have/should have realised that the ceiling wasn't good enough to do a good paint job. He can only come fridays to work on the house. grrrr Blog http://wherethehearthis.blogspot.com/ Build https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=6634: Yard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27687&p=378401#p378401 Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 531Apr 30, 2010 10:02 pm How frustrating!! Hope it gets sorted for you soon, and yep def steer clear of the textured ceiling paint. My parents made that mistake - they thought it would turn out nice! *shudder* Re: Here we go- irrigation and some more repairs 532May 05, 2010 10:44 pm Still waiting to hear the outcome on the ceilings. It's with " the boss" atm. One person at work said we should insist on new ceilings but... Imagine the mess. I don't want textured ceilings ( same person pointed out that especially in the country and with a wood fire to be installed the dust would be horrendous) Don't want tinted ceiling instead of white. I dislike the "chalk dust" colour of our door frames being a not white white. I hate it against the beautiful wall colour as it is. It looks dirty even though it's not. No way to I want to lose the white contrast of the ceilings against the walls by having the ceiling paint tinted. Don't want more downlights. I want oyster lights of our choosing. The trouble is it would be 8 lights and there are 4 others that I would want to match so they would need to be purchased at the same time even if not fitted. ****************************************************************************************** Our retaining wall man came today and attempted to dig 8 tree holes and to spread the organic soil for the lawn. Soil area looks great although I need to get some more soil. BUT he had a slight problem with a couple of the tree holes. oops. Seems we will not be able to go for the super large sized trees as he wasn't able to dig down far enough to get the holes started for us. ROCK! 2 of the tree holes in our "avenue " of 5 trees are now out of line as it was the only way he could dig down to at least 600mm. we were hoping he could get down a bit further) 2 of the holes out in the front garden area are also a bit more shallow that we would have hoped for so it means smaller specimens than originally planned. We'll just have to wait for their roots to grow and find their own way between the rocky sections of ground. Not looking forward to the fencing man appearing as he might have some fun digging the post holes which means additional $ for us. Our man today charged us $180 for 3 hours work. about 1 1/2-2 hours of it was spreading the dirt. The retic quote we had quoted us $800 to do the same job. You see why I was so disappointed with their quote. I figure if they over charge that much for that part of the job what amount were they planning on over charging us for the retic section. Plus their quote didn't include the plumber or the sparkie they'd originally said they'd organise. So that would be on top again. If it had included that we would have been happy for them to do the work even with a 2nd day of bobcat work at $800 ( well maybe) Their lawn laying price wasn't too different to what we'd been quoted from the lawn place anyway but they knew we knew the price on that. Photos tomorrow when there's some daylight. ***************************************************************88 another retic quote booked in to be done on Monday. Fingers crossed. Re: Here we go- garden rollercoaster ride 533May 06, 2010 9:06 pm Re: Here we go- garden soil photos 534May 08, 2010 8:05 am everything looks wonderful! how exciting you get to go and get trees!!!! I love going to buy plants its one of the best feelings in the world to accomplish establishing a garden from scratch! Goodluck on your plant adventures! Kylie handover happened 15/6/09...love living on an acre but still so much to do! Re: Here we go- garden soil photos 535May 08, 2010 8:36 am Thanks Kylie. I've been awake since 3.30 am . How silly is that. So have been researching different trees. Now I'm wishing we'd got our man to do 3 more holes as I've changed my mind about where I want my flowering plum. Arghh. ground is too tough to dig by hand. I'm just wondering if we'll need to put a protective barrier around the trees to keep the bunnies away. Best place for us to buy most of the trees ( 5 silver birches) doesn't sell until July I just read as they do bare rooted trees. I thought it was May for some reason. So Now I have to decide if we wait or... Bare rooted might be good because then we might be able to get larger trees. So hard to decide. I could get the flowering plum now except that I haven't got a hole for it. Re: Here we go- garden soil photos 536May 09, 2010 11:23 am 4 trees! Bunch of 10 jarrah garden stakes and some stretchy tree tie stuff on a roll to wrap around the stakes. 2 of our eventual 5 silver birches purchased and 1 Manchurian Pear and 1 Tallow Wood Tree. Manchurian Pear Tallow Wood Tree Leaf Makes the house look very different. We placed the 4 trees in their holes in their bags just to see what they looked like So different with trees at the front. Re: Here we go- garden soil photos 537May 22, 2010 7:07 pm I love the ornamental pears! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Here we go- garden soil photos 538May 23, 2010 10:18 am Just about all the leaves have blown off the ornamental pear and the silver birches atm. Need to keep the watering up as they get a fair bit of wind where they are. DH has been watering them. Although not yesterday as it was raining heaps. Hope they are ok. We have news on the ceiling front. Personally I think the ceiling looks worse than it did before they started. Anyway not going to be getting the ceiling replaced. It wasn't even suggested but then we didn't push for it as a suggestion as it wasn't something we wanted. We have approval to select 10 light fittings which will now be supplied and fitted by the builder. Woohoo. The light fitting that at the moment we are considering was $94 dollars per fitting last year retail. Our budget allowance is $!,000 so these come in at the right price. So next weekend we will be going light fitting shopping for serial numbers. Hopefully they haven't gone up in price since we saw them. They also do a smaller version which we will be considering for 2 of the positions. If these are a bit cheaper it will give us a few more $ to play with for the light in the lounge room. We might get something slightly different for one of the office lights and for the lounge. We'll see. Re: Here we go- and go and go and go 539Jun 05, 2010 8:07 am It's a long weekend here and while I hope to get a little bit of gardening done most of the weekend will be filled with report writing as it's "that" time of the year for teachers. I was talking to a Canadian teacher I know and it's reporting time for them right now as well. Updates: The Developer appeared on Wednesday and planted some"substantial trees" as per the council request. NOT! He's planted two rows of a shrub that grows eventually to 2-3 m. Right now they are on average 40cm tall. Hmmm All that waiting and delaying fencing for this. What was most amusing is he just appeared and started fiddling around. Not knock on the door. No hello I'm here. It would have been pretty obvious someone was home too. Hubby just happened to look out the door and see him on our property preparing to dig some holes. Kunzea baxteri: is a member of the Myrtaceae family and is known as the Crimson Kunzea. Kunzea baxteri is a small to medium shrub with spreading, sometimes erect branches. The leaves are linear, densely crowded, mid-green and about 15 by 3 wide. The spectacular, bottlebrush shaped flower heads are 10 centimetres long by 8 centimetres wide, deep red, scattered to profuse and very conspicuous. Blooms usually appear between March and September with sporadic flowering at other times. The Crimson Kunzea is one of the showiest species of the genus. Tip pruning will improve foliage density and flowering. Kunzea baxteri is a native of Western Australia and was first cultivated in England in 1838. Plants growing in colder areas are best grown in sheltered shrubberies as they may be damaged by frost. hmm We have frost! Somehow these don't sound like the significantly substantial tree he was meant to plant. He used a post and dug tiny little holes. Plus he is supposed to water them. He had been meaning to install some sort of reticulation and had discussions with us in December about doing this. Well he hasn't and it hasn't rained since he planted them so Dh was down the back yesterday giving them all a water. We were expecting a bobcat or other digger type because the trees were meant to be huge ones. I'm guessing he wanted to save lots of $ as he would have found loads of rock and it would have been hard and expensive work. Drats! as we had a cunning plan to replace some of these trees with things of our own choice later down the track knowing that the holes had been dug and the rocks removed. These will be hard to remove. They will find there way through the rock and make it difficult to replace with established trees of our own choosing later. DAMN! Still at least we are rid of him. But given the size of these trees he's now planted we didn't need to delay fencing at all. So I'm really not happy. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Lighting: Another disappointment as it seems the lights we wanted to buy are discontinued. It seems a similar light is made by a couple of other lighting companies so hopefully we'll be able to find something. But we did find a spotlight track we really liked and possibly a large light for the lounge room although the price from the lighting shop for the 3 light version is a bit higher than the same light in the 5 Light version from an online store....hmmm Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Ute: fuel gauge fixed Temp gauge fixed ( we think) We'll test it out this weekend, But we may need a thermostat as well yet.The workshop have warned us that if the thermostat is missing it might be an indicator that the car has an issue with overheating in summer. blah! We'll see. Fuel tank has a leak along the seam and the workshop are hunting us down a replacement one. ( 2nd hand) So as long as we can keep the fuel tank below half full we shouldn't lose too much fuel in the meantime. Of course we filled the tank to the brim just before we discovered the leak. It seems the best way to know we had fuel given that the gauge wasn't working. At the moment the bill is sitting at around $100 for replacement bits and repairs including new wipers. A replacement 2nd hand tank is another 100 or so and all up labour around 150 so for the work done hopefully it will cost us around $350. phew. I was worried it might have been much higher. That of course depends on whether they can find a 2nd hand tank in good condition.A bit of a relief as getting the ute was "my project" as Hubby keeps pointing out when I worry about things going wrong with it. Finally a win Yet another block down the road has been cleared for building and they had scraped back all the top soil. I couldn't help but admire the lovely rich colour and it seemed such a shame that they were going to truck it away so mentioned to Hubby that I wondered if we could get them to dump some of it at our place. usually Hubby wouldn't be willing to go and talk to the guys but by the time I got to work yesterday not only had he been and had a chat to them but he'd talked them into giving us 6 big scoops of lovely soil delivered by dozer. They actually asked if we wanted any more. If I'd been there I would have said yes please. Anyway we now have enough soil to complete the front garden ready for planting. woohoo. I just need to even it out and spread it to a few areas. AT NO COST!. I had mentioned to Hubby that he could offer to pay them but no money was required. I guess they were able to save on dumping costs as Hubby said they spread was left out on the block. Re: Here we go- and go and go and go 540Jun 05, 2010 9:06 am I'd be calling the council and complaining about the "trees". Talk about cheap shortcuts! Bummer about the lights too.... But woohoo for the free soil! I recently went through a similar renovation and move scenario when updating our family home. We also swapped some rooms around and tackled a major… 2 10655 |