https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/blog.php/1602-My-Leaky-Home-Blog Kiwi Biker - New Zealand motorcycle community en Wed, 06 May 2026 20:07:59 GMT vBulletin 20 https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/images/BP-Brown/misc/rss.jpg https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/blog.php/1602-My-Leaky-Home-Blog https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/23-My-Leaky-Home-Blog Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:44:26 GMT Back in the heady days of late 2000, the newly acquired SWMBO and I were driving past Pt Chevaleir and decided to check out some open homes on a whim. We looked at a few houses, then we hit on "the one". We had started planning our wedding but after checking with a mortgage broker, we found that we could indeed service a mortgage if we put the wedding back a year, so after some fierce negotiations and lots of too-ing and fro-ing, we made the deal and had a house.

Life was good. We had a nice house in a good area, we had a great wedding with the added bonus of finding out that we were pregnant 2 days before the big day. Life went on and the little one arrived in June 2001, but winter had brought another surprise.......


TBC ]]> kiwifruit https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/23-My-Leaky-Home-Blog https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/22-My-Leaky-Home-Blog Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:02:14 GMT Ahh, wouldn't it have been great to have a blog before the house renovations started?

Here we are, 4 and a bit months down the track with many fascinating tales of resource consents, building consents, outrageous fees and impending court cases that could have filled the entries here. I may do some retrospective blogging on the whole process to warn others what they are up against.

Still, theres only 2 weeks left of the build and the house is looking damn good. 2 new bedrooms, a new kitchen, a new ensuite and fully network cabled. Grrrr. At least I'll have a nice comfortable study to get back into and do some serious gaming and dev work. Must remember to put a lock on the door to keep her indoors, out :dodge:

Stay tuned for tales of woe, heroism in the face of local council bylaws and a shot at the front page of the Harold if we get $300k+ in leaky home related damages :first: ]]> Mr. Peanut https://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/entry.php/22-My-Leaky-Home-Blog