Next to our dismay we found that some of the original brick ties had come loose, referred to as 'wall tie failure', this meant that our South facing wall was 'bowed', especially around the large arched window. Sarah spent several hours researching the problem on the internet as our architect had no clue or inclination to help us solve the problem! Sarah found a product called Helifix in Australia. Helifix Australia then directed us to a specialist in Wellington. Contact was made and in December 2005, just a few days before christmas, two men flew down and pinned the whole brick work together with stainless steel ties.
The Garden is under way at last! Peter Salmond (Hokonui Alpines) is the fellow involved with this task. Mrs Susan Mort was the landscape architect who spent a whole day with us to get an idea of what Sarah & I wanted - her vision for us is breath taking.