Sunday, 30 March 2025

Vilagrad Winery

 Last Sunday, a beautiful sunny day, a group of us went to Vilagrad Winery, just a short drive from our place, we'd forgotten it was there.

We were looking for an excuse to wear our posh frocks, where better than Vilagrads for Sunday lunch.

It opens at 12pm and lunch is from 1pm, a smorgasbord of some very tasty food, followed by a very indulgent dessert.

We might make it a regular thing.

Mike, Kevin and Joe 

Me, Helen and Linda 





















Sue xx

Friday, 28 March 2025

And it's all wrapped

Over the last 2 days the rest of the cladding has been removed, frame changes made and the whole house is wrapped.

Garage side wall 


Garage back wall 


Opening for a door in the back wall 


Our bedroom window out

Garage wrapped 

The last section, garage & our bedroom wrapped 



The new craft room still needs to be done, but the main house has more pressing things needing doing at the moment.

A couple of pics I missed....

Michael's desk 😉


This is the window in the kitchen which has been made smaller, it's going to be a servery/sliding window to the outside bbq area

The new entrance door space, it will have a side window panel 

Site dogs


Will try and add some other stuff over the weekend

Have a good one


Sue x

Saturday, 22 March 2025

Another section done

Today, Michael and Joe removed the cladding from the outside of the 2nd bedroom around to the bathroom.


The room Michael is in is the 2nd bedroom


The 2nd bedroom window 


The rectangle, centre, is where we're putting in another window


Inside bedroom 2

From the pink batts to the old cladding is the bathroom 

Inside the bathroom, all wrapped

Bedroom 2 wrapped

Making steady progress 👍 

Sue xx

Friday, 21 March 2025

Cladding coming off

On Thursday work started on removing the outside cladding. They're doing it in sections, making any framing changes and wrapping as they go.

I took something up to Michael around 9am, before I headed out for the day, and this is what they'd done already

Outside looking in


Inside, looking out

When I got home, around 4ish, I went to see how they were getting on. 


Where's my house? 😆 

A couple of hours later, it was all wrapped 



Today, they started on the next section




Some of the new exterior ply and battens were delivered



I think we're at the stage where things look worse before they get better!

Oh and yesterday, work started on  manufacturing our new windows.

That's it for today 

Sue x


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