John, one of our friends, has given us some free door handles for our new
home. John is a locksmith and has told us that these handles would have
most likely been thrown out.
These handles have come of some doors where the builders installed the wrong type of handles on the internal doors on a large new building. The business where John works was employed to remove this handles from the doors and install the correct handles.
Believe it or not, as this handles already had been installed once, they couldn't be sold as new and were just sitting in a corner in a box taking up space and were about to be thrown out, when John offered us these.
Of course we were only to happy to receive all the handles for our doors for free and we certainly don't mind that they have been installed once before. In fact they do look brand new and have hardly been used ever.
Later on we also found some handles for our front doors on eBay. They were
very reasonably priced at \$68 inclusive postage, so we are quite happy
about those as well.
So now we already have all internal doors, the main entrance doors, all the door handles we need and some of the windows.
On the planning side of things we are now waiting on some engineers drawings before we can submit the plans to the local council for building approval. It's quite exciting and Rosalba can't wait to actually start doing stuff on building our new home.
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