To do list

I tell you what, moving into a new house on it's own needs a project manager! So far I have organised to put up the temporary redi shades and front window blinds the Tuesday (handover day). On the Wednesday I am moving and have scheduled the fly screens to be installed that afternoon. Thursday/Friday/Saturday hopefully my concrete for the driveway and alfresco is done, two days is needed - fingers crossed for good weather. I also need to organise a day for the security doors to be installed and I need to organise the cleaning of my current place and I need to clean up the backyard! Gawd I have soooooooo much to do that it's not funny! Also as already mentioned I still don't know when I will get a phone line AND I need to get my tv antenna connected in the roof! I'm trying not to watch my recorded tv and downloads just incase I wont have tv recception or internet - my gawd, could you imagine no TV and no internet?!?! The mind boggles!

Quotes ahoy!

I am getting organised now and feeling a lot more in control!

I have a concreter, a fencer and a security door company all coming to site on Thursday after work to give me quotes! Noice! I'm also waiting to hear back from another concreter and I probably should get another security door quote too. I've also spoken to my window supplier and they are going to send me a proper quote for my fly screens.

I'm still not sure what colour to do the driveway and if to stencil it or not. I was originally going to go charcoal/black but my house is all based on browns so now I'm thinking a brown colour? Although I'm a bit worried about how that might turn out.

My cornices went up yesterday! I got some photo's but haven't had time to load them up.... I'm not going to get out there tonight but hopefully tomorrow!

Starting to panic

I'm starting to go into a bit of a mild panic about everything! Ignore the whole fact I need to pack as I really don't think it will take me that long to do, but I still need to organise all of the following:

• Fencing quote and then work out when to get it done (before or after I move in?)
  
• Driveway quotes and what kind of driveway do I want? Due to all the mud I'm leaning towards black/charcoal or a brown coloured one maybe
  
• Alfresco area - paved or concreted? Do I spend the extra money and get it paved or not?
  
• Fly screens and security doors need to be ordered
  
• I need to look at couches and get an idea of price and how long till they are delivered etc
  
• I need to buy redi shades for all my windows as blinds will be a while off
  
• Speak to removalists
  

Of course a lot of this stuff depends on what kind of bonus I get from work this year and I may not know that for another 2-3 weeks! ARGH!

Fly screens and security doors

I just called my window supplier (A&L windows) to get a quote on fly screens and I am wondering if anyone can comment on the prices:

Awning (full length) = $45ech
Sliding (any size) = $30 each

So I have 3 full length awning and 10 sliders so that's a total of $435

I also asked about the sliding doors and they range from $445 for a basic one with diamond mesh and key lock through to $800 for a marine grade steel mesh slider with a key lock.

So say I get a $800 door for the meals slider, a basic $445 one for my laundry, that's $2115 $1680 and that doesn't include my front flyscreen/security door!

Thinking about it, I'm wondering how dark/thick the steel mesh screen will be, I may actually prefer the diamond pattern one on my meals slider door to let my light in.

Also, I'm thinking that I might just get a diamond pattern one for my front door too. It will match my garage door and window frames and will give the front of the house more colour - I spose I might be better off waiting to see my garage door before deciding on that one. It would be nice to get a steel grade mesh security door on the front, but I'm not that concerned about my main front door being hidden as it's not like I deliberately upgraded to a nicer looking one or anything