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Gutter Damage

Inspected my gutter yesterday and found a few defects. Here, it is slightly buckled and dented near where the downpipe is.

Home Network Plans

Just realised I have not posted my home network plans, so here it is. I've purchased the 8 port pack because the 24 pack was overly pricey ($3897 for 24 pack vs $1402 for 8 pack!) and there was no sane number in between (you can not just add 1 or 2 more ports to the 8 port pack). Ground Floor:

Barramudi Traditional Roof

Tuesday September 16 - Finally our roof is on! In the time the frames and chipboards were laid bare, they had been exposed to all sorts of wild weather, from sunny days to flash floods, hail and thunderstorm. Finally, I can feel at ease that the internals are now protected. Here's the Marriot 48 finally taking shape!

Extreme Scaffolding

After a couple months of waiting, the day finally came for scaffolding to be erected. That day was Tuesday Sept 9. Week 13 of my build Here, you can see the panel of boards they had to put for protection against accidental electrocution. The power company has also put some sort of wrapper insulation around the closest power line. As the power had to be shut off for this work, the tradies had to get all this done by 3pm which was all pretty good timing because around 3:30pm, a mini flash flood and hail swept through Melbourne.