Back home after helping our older daughter move from Skye to her new home in Botanic Ridge. Loading up was OK but unloading at the new place and the trudge up the ‘mountain goat’ driveway pretty much drained the last of our physical reserves, in particular two items – fridge and mattress.
Had to go out today past Pakenham to Nar Nar Goon to pick up our younger daughter Natalie who’s car is in for service and then back to Cranbourne for a farrier appointment. This gave us the opportunity to see our girl Dusty again, and ET to give her hugs and kisses. Then return trip to Gooney to drop off the kid and finally on the way home again.
It’s good to see her again.
Installed one of the $25 units we bought at the market last week into my sister’s Mercedes Kompressor. This is the first time the power lead has been long enough to reach from the camera all the way around behind trim and along under the drivers dash to the cigarette lighter so thankfully no need for any USB extension cable.
Started at the centre console where there is cigarette lighter socket.
Then under the dash where the cable is hidden behind the kick cover panel.
Across to the right side.
Then up and around the end of the dash.
Towards the windscreen the up the pillar.
Home turn is in sight 
Across the top of the windscreen pushing the cable in behind the trim with a old school ruler.
The cable length is perfect to just plug into camera.
Thankfully no operator knowledge is required, camera turns on with ignition ACC and turns off about 30 seconds after key is removed.
Continuing on with making the spa cover I’ve reinforced the corners with paling off-cuts.
The whole thing now holds it’s shape quite well when picked up and moved around.
Next job is to clean up the spa area and for me to make a new cover. I’ve already been working in that area to cut down and remove the spa pergola and the main reason for doing that job at that time was to have some more timber available to build the spa box – which was the last job.
The spa was never used, all that’s left of the cover is deteriorating Styrofoam panels.
Moving on from the sides last stage with this job is the front.
Like the top it needs to be removable to access the spa equipment. I’m down to the last of the palings including a few warped ones.
Having completed the spa top cover we can move onto boarding in the sides. About to add a couple of back supports for the palings to screw onto.
Not everything is square here so decided to play safe and ‘screw tack’ the palings on to get the spacing and other stuff right, then run a pencil line down each front pine support for cutting to length.
After some planning and trial layouts we now have a very sturdy frame.
Next job on the list after demolishing the spa pergola is to hide the spa equipment itself to make it more presentable for sale.
Had some thoughts about using fence lattice but we need to do better than that. Just trying to keep the costs down, what else do we have on hand?
