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On site at the Murray project, it's
all coming down to the finishing touches.
What I need you to do is actually
just live with these for a good couple of weeks.
I want you to look in the morning, midday, night,
sunny day, rainy day.
Eric's rowing for gold at the world champs,
leaving Jackie to face an endurance test of her own.
It's definitely been harder since Eric's gone.
I've got to be a solo parent and make all the final decisions
of the house.
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So what's happening today on site
is we're starting to do a bit of prep work
for the exterior areas, the hard surfaces, and driveways,
and entertainment areas, etc.
So we're boxing them up, ready to pour some hard surfacing.
While Marcus preps outside for the concrete pour,
inside painting is underway.
It's taken a few weeks to finalize her choice because
by the litre, paint color has been Jackie's biggest decision
yet.
I'm going to be putting the first coat
of ceiling paint, which is Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen.
Going with the spray and back roll system.
I'm going to spray my borders, roll them, spray in the middle,
and then roll that out.
And I'll just do it in sections.
Well, I've sort of always said that I'll
pick all the pretty stuff when it
comes to the paint, the interior colors, and the design and all
that.
So if we left it up to Eric, god knows what we'd have.
Obviously, we're doing the exterior concrete areas, which
includes the driveway, and the living areas
that they've decided they wanted in color concrete,
it's actually 23.4 cubic meters of concrete, which probably
equates to around 250 to 270 square meters of actual surface
area.
Getting very close.
Painters are finishing inside.
That means depending on how things
flow, four weeks' time she should
have the trailer here backed up moving a bit of gear
in hopefully.
But Jackie will be moving in solo
while Eric focuses on bringing home
his sixth world championship win and a new gold medal.
Gidday.
Coming to you from France, the world
championships here in Lake Aiguebelette,
beautiful location.
It's been a good start to the world rowing champs.
We've won our heat.
We head into the quarterfinals and then into the semifinals
in a couple of days' time.
So we've got to focus on what we're
doing, making sure that we get into the final
so we can try and win another world championship title.
But yeah, it's been a long tour.
It's good to be here at the world champs
and just really counting down the days
until it's all finished, and I can get home.
And at the rate the Murray project is going,
Eric will be arriving back to a finished home.
So what am I actually going to be building, have
you got a style in mind?
I do.
I've seen online a few pictures.
What I want is sort of a wooden look,
but like a floating shelf.
I don't want it going to the ground.
I want to be able to see the pipes and the drainage
or whatever you call that area there.
So like the stainless waste?
Yes.
OK.
And you're going to have the sink, the vessel,
the bowl sitting on top?
Yes.
Sits on top.
OK.
And no hardware coming out from the wall or anything,
the taps--
No.
It's all coming up from the vanity.
OK.
Yeah.
That'll look really, really sharp.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
It's a very simple, modern style but with a bit
of a rustic twist to it.
That's sort of a bit heavier than what I was--
That's one whole unit, isn't it, that's
just sitting on the floor?
Yeah.
Which kind of looks pretty heavy, but--
Yeah.
OK.
Well, I'll do a couple of dimensions.
And we'll draw up a bit of a plan
and see if we're both on the same page.
And then we can talk about the type of timber that you want
and maybe the type of finish that you want a little bit
later down the track once we've started constructing on that.
OK.
The build's almost finished.
It's sort of just the last minute, interior, finer details
to be done, like the vanities.
It's getting closer and closer now.
But it still feels so far away too.
But yeah, it's very exciting with pretty much the outside
completely done.
Just some gardens and hedging and stuff
like that, doing the interior.
Painting's nearly all done.
And next thing's kitchen and bathroom.
So it's so close.
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