Ready to go?

Well, i can't fault Jemena.  Once Origin actually passed on the paperwork, the electricity was gone within a week.  So we're all ready to demolish. Andre (the demolisher) is all ready to go.  Now we're just waiting on the bank who are being a bit slow with the paperwork, and have asked for us to wait for them.  We're asking for less than they pre-approved, and they've had the contract for three weeks now, so it really shouldn't take much longer.  I'd really like to have the house gone, and Simonds' resurvey done by the end of October.

Surprise...

Well, it's been an interesting week.  Thursday was supposed to be time up on the electrical abolishment, but of course, it hadn't been done.  So I called up Origin only to discover that they hadn't forwarded the paperwork to Jemena, and it will now be another 2-4 weeks before it can be done.  Seriously, how long does it take to forward an email?  It only took him 2 minutes while I was on the phone.  Grrr.
So I was all prepared to sit around for the next couple of weeks with no progress, and we went around to the house Sunday morning to continue pulling down some of the external timber structure we want to keep.  We were rather surprised to find that the front door broken open and bits stripped off the house.  Looks like they've already sent the asbestos removalists around, without telling us, and without waiting for the electricity to be abolished. On further inspection, they also seem to be ladder removalists, as ours is now missing!  We had left it locked in the house, as we were expecting to do more work there this weekend.
So I'm sitting here today a little bit perplexed, as I'm not sure if I should be feeling happy about progress happening, or irritated that they have started without informing us, and stolen our ladder.

Anyway, here's some pics of the work done so far.

External asbestos stripped from the studio...

... and from under the eaves.

This was the back door.