February 17, 2010
16th Week Lock Up Pics
Looking from the front door to the back of the house
The sarking under the colorbond roof and the whirlybird
Our beautiful bath tub
Laundry
The sarking under the colorbond roof and the whirlybird
Our beautiful bath tub
Laundry
16th Week LOCK UP Pics
The kitchen and dining room area
Looking at the kitchen from the family room
Family room
Door way to Bedrooms/Bathroom/WC and Laundry
Looking at the kitchen from the family room
Family room
Door way to Bedrooms/Bathroom/WC and Laundry
February 9, 2010
15th Week Final Touch Ups Before Lock Up
Since my last post, there has been a fair bit of work been done to the house.
- Plumbers come and connected most of the down pipes using the wrong colour pipes, they are getting changed over to correct colour.
- Front Portico Wall fixed and extended to right length
- Cladding has been installed to the front of house
- Quality Assessor has been through and errors corrected
- Had my own electrician come in and run all my extra cables for after handover, this has saved us thousands by doing this now and not after handover or having Metricon doing it (lights, powerpoints, alarm, tv points.....).
- Acoustic Sound Batts around all internal walls of bedroom 2,3 and 4
SS informed me today that our project goes full stream ahead as there was not much work done since Xmas.
My next Post should be of our walls covered in Plaster as they start plastering next friday.
- Plumbers come and connected most of the down pipes using the wrong colour pipes, they are getting changed over to correct colour.
- Front Portico Wall fixed and extended to right length
- Cladding has been installed to the front of house
- Quality Assessor has been through and errors corrected
- Had my own electrician come in and run all my extra cables for after handover, this has saved us thousands by doing this now and not after handover or having Metricon doing it (lights, powerpoints, alarm, tv points.....).
- Acoustic Sound Batts around all internal walls of bedroom 2,3 and 4
SS informed me today that our project goes full stream ahead as there was not much work done since Xmas.
My next Post should be of our walls covered in Plaster as they start plastering next friday.
January 27, 2010
13th Week Still no sign of Lock Up
Happy New Year 2010
It’s been awhile since my last post and that’s due to not much work has really happened on the house.
What has happened since my last post?
• Work has started on the Portico
• Site Cleaned
• Bricks Cleaned
• Telstra cable installed
• Wall studs marked on the slab
• Inspector spray painting the house with Fluro Pink paint (lots of mistakes inside and outside)
The most frustrating thing I’m finding is our roof still looks the same from the 6th week as we are now in the 13th week and roof still not completed.
Now that the bricks have been cleaned with the acid, they have changed colour and look nothing like the way they did before. We are still waiting for the bricks to be neutralised and I hope that fixes the colour up a bit.
We’ve been informed that the plans are hard to read, this is why there have been a few structural errors on the house. If the tradies are struggeling to read the plans, ring the builder to confirm measurments, can't be that hard!!!
List of some errors
• House slab was built around 120mm to short right where the front door goes, error fixed with an engineer’s certificate.
• Front portico wall was built short about 120mm; SS informed us that this will be fixed and according to plan, this should be completed by the first week of February.
• Wrong colour downpipes, contract states Colorbond Dune and they installed Woodland Grey.
• Bricks have lost their coating and mortar gone missing since cleaning
Take away all the errors and the frustration our build is going well, our relationship with our SS is good, and he also has allowed me to do extra work before the plaster goes up, which is going to save us heaps of money after hand over. He has allowed me to install Acoustic batts in some of the internal walls and also run some extra electrical cables with the condition that they cannot be poked through until after handover, I can live with that.
Hopefully on my next post I can say we have Lock Up and at Fixing Stage
It’s been awhile since my last post and that’s due to not much work has really happened on the house.
What has happened since my last post?
• Work has started on the Portico
• Site Cleaned
• Bricks Cleaned
• Telstra cable installed
• Wall studs marked on the slab
• Inspector spray painting the house with Fluro Pink paint (lots of mistakes inside and outside)
The most frustrating thing I’m finding is our roof still looks the same from the 6th week as we are now in the 13th week and roof still not completed.
Now that the bricks have been cleaned with the acid, they have changed colour and look nothing like the way they did before. We are still waiting for the bricks to be neutralised and I hope that fixes the colour up a bit.
We’ve been informed that the plans are hard to read, this is why there have been a few structural errors on the house. If the tradies are struggeling to read the plans, ring the builder to confirm measurments, can't be that hard!!!
List of some errors
• House slab was built around 120mm to short right where the front door goes, error fixed with an engineer’s certificate.
• Front portico wall was built short about 120mm; SS informed us that this will be fixed and according to plan, this should be completed by the first week of February.
• Wrong colour downpipes, contract states Colorbond Dune and they installed Woodland Grey.
• Bricks have lost their coating and mortar gone missing since cleaning
Take away all the errors and the frustration our build is going well, our relationship with our SS is good, and he also has allowed me to do extra work before the plaster goes up, which is going to save us heaps of money after hand over. He has allowed me to install Acoustic batts in some of the internal walls and also run some extra electrical cables with the condition that they cannot be poked through until after handover, I can live with that.
Hopefully on my next post I can say we have Lock Up and at Fixing Stage
December 23, 2009
8th Week Brick work completed
We had our meeting with our SS yesterday and we were told that brickwork would be completed by the end of the day.
We have to wait until the portico is built before the roof can be completed, but still confused on why there are still two sheets still missing on the roof; and what affected this will have on the portico not being completed?
I went to the block earlier today to move unused bricks to the back of the block, as our SS had informed us that at some stage before New Years a bobcat will be coming in to clean up the block.
As my next blog will not be until the New Year, I wish everyone a Merry Xmas and safe holiday period.
AUSTRAL NOUGAT BRICKS
We have to wait until the portico is built before the roof can be completed, but still confused on why there are still two sheets still missing on the roof; and what affected this will have on the portico not being completed?
I went to the block earlier today to move unused bricks to the back of the block, as our SS had informed us that at some stage before New Years a bobcat will be coming in to clean up the block.
As my next blog will not be until the New Year, I wish everyone a Merry Xmas and safe holiday period.
AUSTRAL NOUGAT BRICKS
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