I arrived at the house before 8 AM to find Paul and Reg at the driveway. Reg moved on to let us get on with things and soon the 6 meter skip arrived and was placed at the top of the driveway close to the house.
While Paul waited for his men to show up I checked the telephone line and was surprised to find it working. I telephoned Exetel and while I waited on the line they checked with Telstra and learned that the fault had been rectified on Sunday. I then connected the "iConnectAccess621" modem that Stephen had configured and soon had the ADSL1 internet service working. The first thing I did was to check the speed of the service using the web site "speedtest.net" and got a download speed of 6.40 Mbps which according to Stephen is extremely fast. The upload speed was a slower 0.33 Mbps but it is after all an asymmetric service and the upload speed is not as important to me. So I am enjoying the pleasure of writing this blog entry from my Darlington home in a temporary office that I have set up in the small space next to the dining room.
Soon Paul, Peter, and a new man named Neil were on the roof removing tiles and throwing them directly into the skip below. Genuine clay tiles have a lot going for them and I hate to see them smashed up for recycling, but they put an enormous amount of weight on roofs and require too much expensive labor to reuse them on another house. It's an example of what the economist Jopseph Shumpeter dubbed "creative destruction", and our modern world is full of that. Paul told me that the roofing job will take about a week but I am sure that it will go into next week for the installation of the spinning roof vents and skylights. There will also be the little out building to be done
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"The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie” - Joseph Shumpeter
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