Plaster Ahoy

Plasterers have been insanely busy on site, getting all the sheets up on the wall within 2 days and seeming to finish off their work. Some of our neighbours let us know that they had been waking them up in the morning (which is impressive, as quite a few of them are tradies themselves) and … Continue reading →

Lock up stage complete

On Monday we did a site inspection with our independent inspectors and with our temporary construction supervisor. We’d made it known that we wouldn’t accept the stage as complete until all outstanding frame stage issues were dealt with. Much to my great surprise, they were all resolved. It had been a really unpleasant week of … Continue reading →

This morning I contacted our builder in regards to a number of issues which were visible to me, a non builder. Over the course of the day our neighbour advised he had seen a supervisor on site, and then this afternoon I received a phone call from our site supervisor. I, personally, found the call … Continue reading →

Brickies are theoretically getting to the end of their work. I tried hard to look after the brickies – given they were onsite longer than any other trade I ensured I dropped them off a slab one week and then dropped them off a few trays of lamingtons after that to keep them happy. The … Continue reading →

Busy brickies

The busy brickies are plowing through the work on site and the scaffolding has been delivered again and is sitting in the backyard. Most of the ground storey has been completed brick wise, and so the scaff will go up, the upstairs will be wrapped and then bricked. Instantly after that our lock up stage … Continue reading →

Pictorial progress

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Rocketing along

Things are rocketing along on site. Roof is now on Evap cooling has been installed Heating is in Ducting is in Solar panel for water heater is on the roof Plumbing has been roughed in (and we were able to tip of the plumbers as to a minor issue, as once again, they had been … Continue reading →

Timelapse Video Stage 2 – Grass, Slab and Frame

The second timelapse video is up and on the youtubes here: Missing critical bits of the video unfortunately as the timelapse camera and the rechargeable batteries didn’t seem to get along, so we don’t have the footage of the slab construction/pour or the start of framing 😦 Roof trusses are on and framing is pretty … Continue reading →

Shot, Framed and hung… well, framed

So we are now most of the way through the framing, with estimated framing completion on Friday afternoon. PD uses different supervisors for the slab and construction stages. Our slab supervisor was an excellent communicator and made us feel a little more confident that something of quality could be delivered. He tipped us off to … Continue reading →

Cement mixer apocalypse

This week we’ve had a few minor delays getting to what feels to us as the real starting line – the slab. The pour was scheduled for Thursday, which was then pushed to Friday which then became Saturday – apparently one of the trucks needed for the guys setting out the slab and doing the … Continue reading →