2013年、初日は快晴

今年もよろしくお願いします。

サマープロジェクト 其の1

完璧な製作には不可欠な設計図。
8割はここで決まると言っても過言ではありません。
今日はお義父さんも手伝いに来てくれているので、大きな失敗は無いとおもいますが。




古い手摺りを取り外すのに思いのほか手こずりましたが…
先ずは1本1本、ポストを立てていきます。




お義父さん、かなり頭イイですからね。
作業総てが合理的で、カンペキです。




みんな忙しいので遊んで貰えないコイツ。
一人でジャンプ台作って練習していました。




お義父さんは何か大切なミーティングがあるらしく、お昼を食べて帰られました。ありがとうございました。ホント助かりました。
その後も1人で黙々と続けます。

ニュージーランドにも建築法のようなものがありまして、手摺の高さ、格子の間隔など、細かく規定があります。
設計図と電卓片手に間違えないように進めます。




午後6時半にようやく完成。
まる2日で出来上がり。思ったより早かったです。
明日はこれにオイル塗ります。
雨が降る前に…

Finally winter has come...

It has been quite chilly the last few mornings, finally snow has appeared on the mountains and Kaimanawa Ranges.
Alpine Meadow at Turoa ski field seems to be opening tomorrow, hopefully the weather stays nice and cool for a while for other facilities to open.
I've been water blasting the roof and fixing a few plug points, keeping myself busy to get more browny points to go fishing soon :p 

Previously on plumbing...

 I was busy doing other bits and pecies, this plumbing job was left alone. However I got the parts for it this morning from a local shop and finally I'm on to it!

What I did was simply took off the broken mixture valve and installed a 100mm brass pipe instead. There was no need for the mixture valve to be there!!! Shower and the hot water tap in the sink in this particular unit have their own mixture systems.

?????

So......What kind of SPECIALIST put it on to start with???

Anyway it's all fixed and this unit is now ready to sell.

Cheers.

Sometimes I'm a plumber...

This is a photo of the top of the hot water cylinder in one of the units.
Our cleaning ladies told me this morning, the hot water tap is not quite hot enough.

The tank is positively producing hot water, but the 3 way junction temperature controller (what's the name of it?? The silver part in the photo, which seems to be responsible to mix hot and cold to produce the right temperature water) seems to be the problem.

I fiddled with it for a while and I'm now very positive that this is busted!!!!!

The plumbing shops here in Taupo are all shut for weekend, this mission has to be waived for Monday...

We have over 50 taps on the property, we would be bankrupt if we called a plumber for every occasion.

But tell you what..

When I'm stuck with a problem, there is always............. GOOGLE.