QF WP goes across Australia...a live TR adventure

[QF WP]

I'm going to get my wife to read your post - she needs some positive news at the moment - worrying about it all night (as well as coming down with the flu)

 

[get me outta here]

The good news is that once you are able to get onto the actual rebuilding, the better you all with feel. It's very gratifying to know that once it's finished, that it will be better than it has ever been.

i hope she feels better soon and enjoys the first days of school with your little person!

I'm going to get my wife to read your post - she needs some positive news at the moment - worrying about it all night (as well as coming down with the flu)

 

[RB]

Had read the PDS before I rang the hotline, so I was (and am) pretty certain of the outcome (not covered) - as it is expressly excluded. My background is insurance...

Also considering getting a structural engineer to report on it.

Sorry, I read your posts as asking for some advice. I spent 20 yrs in GI so I thought a "financial planner" may have appreciated some help

 

[Katie]

Waking up to my last day here in Perth - I know I've been away and I miss my kids and wife - the joy though of FaceTime. We have enjoyed catching up most nights but I am ready to go home and have some time playing Lego and Lala Loopsy -plus be involved in getting them prepared for school starting next week as my son is off to Prep. Tuesday is going to be a monumental day for him and us.

Ohh, momentous - two school kids in the house!

 

[Pushka]

The day my youngest started school I just walked around bereft. And this was even though I'd kept working part time.

Apparently if you have three kids and not just two, when the youngest starts schools you walk around doing cartwheels!

 

[QF WP]

The day my youngest started school I just walked around bereft. And this was even though I'd kept working part time.

Apparently if you have three kids and not just two, when the youngest starts schools you walk around doing cartwheels!

Our feeling is somwhere between the two - we're proud he's going to school and he has the same teacher as our daughter did 3 years ago - so they know one another already. Mrs WF WP continues to work part time - lucky she's upping her hours so we can put ourselves back into the position we were before Saturday.

 

[QF WP]

Sorry, I read your posts as asking for some advice. I spent 20 yrs in GI so I thought a "financial planner" may have appreciated some help

Whilst I may be a financial planner now, my background is life insurance and the business my father owned had a sizeable GI register they we agreed he sold to two other GI partners we had in the business. So yes, my knowledge of GI is basic and was partially asking for advice and guidance. Can never know enough about the "other" side

We've had the first builder and not all bad news. Remove and replace the upright beams and double post two of them - but we have two sections that need attention. The first one (previously pictured) they recommend to also go one post either side. In their opinion, poor water runoff procedures when house built, so they'll add weep holes and ag pipe behind the wall for better flow away from now.

 

[get me outta here]

I thought GI mean gastro-intestinal?

The builder's advice sounds pretty promising and can use existing materials with some augmentation by the sound of it. You must be quite relieved that it's reasonably straight forward. Where does the ag pipe end up flowing to?

this thread is seriously OT!

Whilst I may be a financial planner now, my background is life insurance and the business my father owned had a sizeable GI register they we agreed he sold to two other GI partners we had in the business. So yes, my knowledge of GI is basic and was partially asking for advice and guidance. Can never know enough about the "other" side

We've had the first builder and not all bad news. Remove and replace the upright beams and double post two of them - but we have two sections that need attention. The first one (previously pictured) they recommend to also go one post either side. In their opinion, poor water runoff procedures when house built, so they'll add weep holes and ag pipe behind the wall for better flow away from now.

 

[Princess Fiona]

The day my youngest started school I just walked around bereft. And this was even though I'd kept working part time.

Apparently if you have three kids and not just two, when the youngest starts schools you walk around doing cartwheels!

And if you have four you feel like you just won the lotto :mrgreen:

 

[QF WP]

I thought GI mean gastro-intestinal?

The builder's advice sounds pretty promising and can use existing materials with some augmentation by the sound of it. You must be quite relieved that it's reasonably straight forward. Where does the ag pipe end up flowing to?

this thread is seriously OT!

Nah, just general insurance. We industry types like to abbrievate

Just had the first quote back - $8,300 for the work (with hardwood posts and sleepers), but $6,500 if we want a "cash job". Sorry, no way I'm going there buddy, I want you to have builders insurance on this job and have to have it passed through the right certifications, so that I wont have s much grief when I go to sell. He also quoted $40K for full "concrete" replacement of the two "wood" retaining walls (one about 60m long and the other about 15m), there would be a lot of underpinning work. Both amounts in the price range my wife and I had discussed.

This is still a TR - a tradie report - and it's still live

Next builder is quoting at 1pm (retaining wall specialist) and another at 4pm. Thankfully no rain and hot humid conditions has lessened the weight of the earth against the existing (weakened) structure, so no movement.

Yes, relief (particularly for my wife). They'd probably run it to our existing rubble drain that we have (underground and across) our back yard. My f-i-l build that when my wife and I were away on holidays overseas - and I have complete faith in his abilities (being a former tradie, he can turn his hand to anything).

I'm sure the bobcat they bring in will rip up the back lawn, so we'll have a full makeover. The 1 palm that is left will now go and the 3 bamboo plants - I think we'll have nice low flowering plants so we can continue to assess the retaining wall much closer in the future.