week 8

well it seems i've been a bit slack over the past week weeks.
SOOO much has happened with our house, its almost at lock up!

Phil is our site supervisor and he is just brilliant! he even put up more noggins for us today in a number of places, for the toilet roll holders, towel rails, TV (mounted) and a giant mirror we have. So all will be very sturdy now :)

The brickies have had to stop as they ran our of bricks, but more were delivered today, so that shouldn't be too much longer now.

THe sparkies were there today and have roughed everything in, and next we will put all the cat 6 cable in. Plaster starts next week, and they reckon the kitchen will be done by mid Nov, with all painting done before Christmas. SO everything is looking on track.

Pillar for the alfresco

The garage was the first to be bricked, as they didnt need to worry about the sisilation

back of house, with laundry door, and 4th bedroom window

Extra noggins were put in today, rather handy

bath frame has been installed, as has shower base

woohoo!!! our lovely shower base in the ensuite, 900x1200mm with a shower dumper too! It will be such a decadent shower

week 6

woohoo the frame is almost finished!

I went to meet our site supervisior today, Phil. He is just lovely and is even letting us put in cabling prior to lock up :) He did tell me that one guys put 9km, yes 9000m, of cable into his 33sq single story house earlier this year! sheesh. We wont be putting that much in, but as we speak (or as i write) Nath is currently adding up how much we need, as we need to get onto it ASAP.

So the frame will finish shortly, the guttering etc goes up tomorrow and the roof start on Monday and should be finished on Tuesday. Bricks booked for 18th, so next week as well and by end of Oct we should be at lock up.

Had also noticed a few faults when looking through so far, not major and should be easy enough to fix. The sliding doors, dont actually meet up and close in the living room, nor the the other sliding door in the rumpus lock easily. There is also a scratch in the rice paper windows on the front door. But they should be easy to fix.

I've also started the curtain hunt today. Victory were not very accomodating, nor were spotlight, so hopefully a local place, Fenech, comes back with a decent quote. They were just lovely in both range and staff.

our lovely and big bedroom window. It's slight skewif, but the supervisor used a spirit level on it today and it was perfect. Once the bricks are around you wont be able to notice it

The sliding doors from the living area to the alfresco. The dont close properly, so this will need to be fixed, obviously

YAY! almost a full frame! the windows have black tape on them to prevent any damage, they are actualy a nice creamy colour, called 'White Birch'

week 5

Well its the end of week 5 and things are going along well. Photos will come shortly.

The frame is nearly complete, should be done by Tuesday of this week. They have had to put extra temporary bracing up due to the high winds we have had this week.

We also noticed that the window we had requested (and thus paid for for) in the theatre room was only the size of the standard window, we wanted a double size. This has also now be rectified. The thing i'm finding is that PD are VERY good at follow up. Sure some things are annoying whilst they are happening, but in the end it works out well.

We also got an email from PD asking when the payment for the slab stage invoice would be paid, Silly duffers haven't even sent us the invoice, and we replied stating that, give us the invoice and we will pay it.

So this week the frame gets finished, and then the following Monday the roof tile will start. We are also meeting the site supervisor at some stage this week. Should be good, he's been lovely so far.

We have also started checking out some garden and window furnishing ideas. I cant wait to set up house :)

anyhoo, i'll post pics later this week.