LB I think you confuse me as much as I probably confuse you. LOL. ;-) I noticed I had some crazy auto correct word in my last post which I think was supposed to say "able" (I can't remember now what it even said) ;-) Oldroo I think the builder said something like sticking the old roof bats under the floor. The rain, yes we had it here more then a week straight!! It was great because 1) I was on the sunny coast in Qland that week! And 2) we are on tank water which we have been running off empty for about 6 months now and we just got a second tank connected a few weeks ago as well as guttering on our shed and guess what.... Our tanks were overflowing for days!! We could of filled 3 or 4 tanks at that rate!! So I am very happy about the rain!! :-D

Hey Everyone!! Good News!! I have just been texted by a friend (they say many hands make light work!) who was trawling through Amazon.com and found exactly what I was looking for! http://www.amazon.com/Spectrum-Diversified-89375CAT-Single-Ironing/dp/B002YSLCJO/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1440244690&sr=8-4&keywords=iron+organizer&refinements=p_n_shipping_option-bin%3A3242350011 The cost AUD$70 including postage! and will be here in 14days tops!! Hurrah!! Thank-you to everyone who has been keeping an eye open, it has been very very much appreciated! Alison

I hated the wasted space of a laundry so much, we opted to put the washing machine in the bathroom. Washing is sorted and folded in the family room, whilst watching TV. Makes the task less dull and from there it can go to the correct side of the house, as the family room is the hub. Ironing is done in front of the TV, where necessary, although the clean washing is removed to each person's room first. Each person does their own ironing as they prefer. I stopped doing it for everybody years ago. If the can cook and clean, they can iron. Linen has specified storage centrally. Each bathroom has storage for towels etc. It was designed around how we like to live, when we built.

disappointing that your landlord is not more responsible and more difficult if you're at work and your partner is not well: if there's no legal agreement about who owns what and you've been told to "deal with it" disposing of anything that you can't use or is not obviously valuable...it's not safe to raise the washing machine without a specialised washing machine stand and it will be more comfortable left on the floor to use the top of the machine as work space... try the simplest cheapest options and keep only the essentials on a shallow lower shelf and hopefully the top shelf may have room for some of the culled boxes from the bedroom...check out the various shelf options in the on line Bunnings etc catalogues ..unfortunately the paint can't go in the bin so make sure the lid is secure and with the help of some hefty friends carefully enclose the paint can in plastic garbage bags (in case of spills), load it in the boot of the car (supported by something to keep it upright) and take it to the nearest recycling garbage tip...hopefully the worst that will happen is the owner will need it replaced if/when she wants to do more painting.. if you need an oven it could be worth finding out the cost of a repair but it could also be no more costly to consider buying your own convection microwave and use the old cleaned out unworking oven for storage of some of the stuff out of those boxes...for the rotting kitchen bench there's a product called "builders bog" that can fill in all sorts of horrible problems and then (carefully covering all the other surfaces use a cheap can of (red?) spray paint to at least make the bench look a bit better and, one box at a time you can take control of the situation, best of luck to you