Hi Brenton



 BV> Roy would be proud, I got them to stick two lights in the roof cavity

 BV> with a switch right next to the man-hole. I've got a double GPO up

 BV> there too.

 RM> Yay!! You won't regret it, trust me 



 BV>  I do...The double GPO is full already.

 BV> I'll have to replace it with a quad once they hand over.



Do be careful. An electrician I once knew died from an overdose of

electrons while working in a roof.



I read an article on safety in a woodworking magazine the other

day. The author said that one of his biggest embarrassments was to

come home from giving a series of lectures on safe operation of

power tools, and open his finger up with a Stanley knife.



 RM> Which reminds me - did you consider a built in vacuum cleaner?



 BV> Yeah. For about 2 seconds. There's nothing to them. They are basically

 BV> one of those VAX or drum type cleaners that they stick in the garage.



advantage #1: it's stuck in place, you don't have to continually

find somewhere to put it



 BV> We simply made sure that there were power points to cover it. We've

 BV> got power points everywhere. Two singles were put in the hallway,

 BV> one at each end, specifically for the vacuum cleaner.



advantage #2: you don't have the heavy vacuum cleaner to drag

around behind you, where it gets stuck going round corners, or its

wheels jam on rugs, toys, its own cord, the baby, etc...



advantage #3: you're not breathing the exhaust of the cleaner, with

the ultrafine dust that gets through its filters (unless, of

course, you're in the carport...)



disadvantage: it's harder to rummage through the grot if you

suck up a lego or a ring or a pet frog or whatever.



 RM> I saw a buy-me on tv the other day that nearly converted me. There

 RM> are two main pluses: (a) the hose connected to the bits you push

 RM> around is big, 9 metres long (according to them...)(and I dunno

 RM> where it gets stored when not in use)



 BV> ROFL...Obviously you haven't seen many of the late night commercials.

 BV> EVERYTHING folds up and packs away neatly for storage in a cupboard

 BV> or under the bed. The cupboard must be empty, and your bed might need

 BV> to be 4' from the ground, but if you try hard enough... :)



 I'm half thinking of rebuilding the base of our waterbed.

That's a couple of square metres of storage that's denied to us. It

wouldn't be very efficient, and the drawers can't be very wide,

because a lot of the wall space would have to be actual support

structure, but it may still be worth the effort. Hmmm... yet

another ten year project...



Cheers



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