00:00Off they go, bags in tow, Matt and Chrissy hit the road.
00:05Maps unfold, stories told, adventures never getting old.
00:10Matt and Chrissy roam so free, through the city, past the sea.
00:15Finding joy in every mile.
00:20There you go, that's how you know we've started.
00:24Hi guys, we're back again.
00:27What a day.
00:28This has been a big day.
00:29So, what, maybe four hours, five hours?
00:34Yep.
00:35I reckon we're probably close to you.
00:37And as an update, as you probably recall, Matt said that we had an obscene amount of lining.
00:47What do you think about it?
00:48Well, okay.
00:50I didn't rely on my mathematic capabilities, which are nothing to brag about.
00:56I use ChatGPT.
00:57Look, there's nothing wrong with taking some help from time to time.
01:04Not at all.
01:05Not at all.
01:05But I suppose, words of the wise, there's two factors to consider this.
01:09Number one, don't trust AI implicitly.
01:11But number two, I didn't really take into consideration just how much more aware we would be of spaces down behind the panels.
01:22Like, we've gone down to the point that we're a good forearms length down in between the panel work here to really apply the sound editor and the insulation.
01:34So, it's interesting sitting in here now talking and the...
01:38It's echoing.
01:38Well, it's echoing a little bit, but it's not echoing like it did before.
01:43I suppose, given that the timber's off the sides...
01:45True.
01:46...they would have almost acted like soft furnishings, I suppose.
01:49True.
01:50But now it's just a metal shell, pretty much.
01:53And there's one bit there and some lovely maroon fine foil.
01:57For those conspiracy theorists out there, we're net tinfoiled.
02:02Yeah.
02:02I don't have to go to bed with a tinfoil hat on anymore.
02:06It's like our own little Faraday cage.
02:08Oh, okay.
02:12So, Matt's ordered another roll of sound deadener.
02:17One more.
02:17Same deal.
02:18And whatever this insulation is.
02:20We've got three panels at the top here that still need to be filled.
02:24A few gaps in the front areas and the door and the back door as well.
02:30So, eight metres we're hoping will be enough.
02:33I think if we're slightly short, it's not the end of the world.
02:38We have got a tiny bit of sound deadener still there.
02:43Maybe, what, a metre?
02:45About a metre.
02:46Yeah.
02:47So, yeah.
02:48I don't have a square metre because it's about half a metre wide.
02:50So, yeah, we'll probably get that stripped down above the door with that.
02:55And that'll be that.
02:57Here's that.
02:59So, while we're waiting for the rest of the sound deadener,
03:03we're going to start cutting the rest of the floor bits, I think.
03:07Yep.
03:08Last time they were quite quick at delivering, which was fantastic.
03:12What was it, maybe three days, four days?
03:14No, it was closer to a week.
03:16Was it?
03:16Yeah, closer to a week.
03:17But it was still pretty good.
03:19It came up in Victoria, so this will be coming up again, same sell-off.
03:23Yep.
03:23So, if you are ordering, make sure you allow time.
03:27In my experience, or our experience, doing renovations, subdivisions, and property stuff,
03:36Oh, time.
03:38It always takes twice as long as what you anticipate.
03:41So, if they say nine months, double it.
03:43Yeah, the gestation period for a house is not nine months.
03:47Yeah, that's a pregnancy.
03:51So, I think we're tracking pretty well.
03:56I'm happy.
03:57We met with a couple, well, a guy, actually, when we picked up the freight cage, and they
04:06had been working on their conversion, and it had been two years of work.
04:12Now, I'm pretty sure that was in between their day jobs, and all the rest of it, and he mentioned
04:19that they had engineered everything, and...
04:22Well, they're both engineers, so they've re-engineered it.
04:24Engineered everything.
04:26I don't know that we will be that pedantic.
04:29No, no.
04:31More functional, get it ready.
04:33Because we want to get up to early beach in about five weeks tomorrow.
04:36So, in the next five weeks, ideally, I'd like to have the floor down, the solar installed,
04:43the last of the deadener done, and the bed frame least built, so we can get a bed in here.
04:48Yes.
04:49That will then pretty much just be a carcass underneath for us to be able to build the
04:53drawer assembly that we're after.
04:55Yes.
04:55And the cage fitted, which, I mean, it's probably going to be close to, like, more over the halfway mark.
05:02I think we'll be well past the halfway mark.
05:05We met with Marson from Stagbit, and he had said that when he does his fit-outs, it takes
05:15about three to four weeks.
05:18The extra week is to allow for unforeseen things, so if there's rust and so forth.
05:24We don't have any rust.
05:25We made sure when we bought the van that there was no rust.
05:28That was high priority for us.
05:30And I don't know.
05:34I think for us, we don't have a template.
05:37We're making the template as we go.
05:40We've never done this before.
05:40We've got an idea.
05:42We know what we mean.
05:42And we're seeing how things fit.
05:46So I think the fact that we are looking at this from an ultra-practical perspective is
05:52probably going to be what helps us get across the line that a little bit quicker.
05:56The soft furnishings and finishing touches, all those sorts of things, still happen in
06:00time.
06:01We're not in a rush.
06:02Yeah.
06:03Keeping in mind that Marcin is doing this full-time.
06:07That's his gig.
06:08That's his business.
06:09They're good-looking outfits.
06:11They look fantastic.
06:12And he's got a template, as I say.
06:14But this is something we're doing in our spare time.
06:17So I'm anticipating it will take longer.
06:21And look, as long as we've got a platform that we can put a mattress on and we can chuck
06:27our bags underneath, that's good for me to go.
06:29Yeah, we won't be plumbing in anything.
06:33The closest we'll have to anything that's permanently installed will be the solar with
06:38a couple of GPOs, which once we've got the floor down, we'll map out where we want, what
06:42we want, and we'll just drop the van off with the solar mob and they can do their work.
06:47There is still quite a bit of work that needs to be done as far as identifying who we're
06:53going to work with for the solar and there are local people.
07:00It has been probably a little bit more challenging than we expected finding someone to do the work.
07:07But in saying that, the people we have spoken with have been very helpful and referred us.
07:13So we just need to make the time to reach out to those businesses and we will keep you posted on that.
07:20Yeah, we'll see you in a couple of bottles of wine later.
07:25We're having wine tonight, okay.
07:27Tomorrow.
07:28Tomorrow.
07:29Okay, so next up we're going to go on the floor.
07:33Go on the floor.
07:34So...
07:36Keep your posted.
07:38Go on the floor.
07:40Go on the floor.
07:42Full on the floor.
08:03Go Nuts!
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