{"id":470,"date":"2016-08-30T01:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2016-08-30T01:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:14:39","slug":"floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Floor surfacing, trenches and horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend is the one scheduled for the floor surfacing. This has quite a saga attached to it. We were originally quoted $6000 for the job, by a Robe bloke. This came down to $1200 plus shipping to get a 3-phase machine down from Adelaide. After some calls we located a small business in the Mount which let us have a 240v machine for four days, $300 plus shipping $100. Amazing! So that&#8217;s what has happened and Gary has been doing the machine (which he loves, and is now looking to buy the model himself) for the last couple of days. It&#8217;s a single pass but with a diamond disc set at an angle to take a fair bit off.\u00a0 It&#8217;s come out very nicely, with the aggregate making a nice pattern, and will now be sealed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-485\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC01417-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"DSC01417\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC01417-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC01417-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DSC01417-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We dug the trench for the water line from the bore up to the tank: it was connected but needed to be buried so a tractor, for example, could drive over it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/30\\\/floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-square\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses\/imag0010\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"475\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0010.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1836,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HTC 2PST1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1472382716&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.097&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0011037527593819&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMAG0010\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0010-169x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0010-576x1024.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0010-415x415.jpg\" width=415 height=415 title=\"IMAG0010\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery-item\"><a border=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses\/imag0013\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"476\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1836,3264\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HTC 2PST1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1472386589&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.097&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015673981191223&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMAG0013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0013-169x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0013-576x1024.jpg\" style=\"margin: 2px\" src=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMAG0013-415x415.jpg\" width=415 height=415 title=\"IMAG0013\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, there is always this: Lesley and Bertram (Bertie)&#8211;Pat said he had an &#8216;honest head&#8217;&#8211;right. . .!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"http:\\\/\\\/house.geoffwells.com\\\/index.php\\\/2016\\\/08\\\/30\\\/floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-width=\"840\"><div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 835px; 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This has quite a saga attached to it. We were originally quoted $6000 for the job, by a Robe bloke. This came down to $1200 plus shipping to get a 3-phase machine down from Adelaide. After some calls we located a small business in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/floor-surfacing-trenches-and-horses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Floor surfacing, trenches and horses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/house.geoffwells.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}