Fixing almost complete (Week-18)

Went to the house yesterday and was quite surprised to find the carpenter working on the weekend (with heavy rain outside)...He was fixing the BIRs and skirting...Kitchen, ensuite and remaining cabinets are all fixed during the week...so not long before the Fixing stage is complete. Project seems to be on schedule and maybe even delivered prior to scheduled date...will have to ask Supervisor on Tuesday about the dates...
Remaining major work:
- Painting
- Garage frames & roof
- Front Rendering
- Electrical fittings
- Plumbing finishing & taps etc
- Tiling
- Mirrors and Shower screens

Kitchen (Above & below) - Burnished wood cabinets below bench top and oyster linea overhead cupboards...stone benchtop still to be installed...Pantry door in the middle in below pic.

Ensuite - Oyster linea for the whole lot...

Decorative columns..

Stairs & Doors are fitted :) Mid week (18) update

Last nite when we went home for our usual rounds (after 3 days) we were quite surprised to find stairs and downstair doors are all fitted...Stairs have come up really well..better than what we were anticipating and just as good as we hoped that we will get...Took lots of pics and spent over an hour there...feel like going back and checking them out again... :) :)




Media Room Doors

Room Under Stairs : Looks quite big now :)

Week-17 update

All the scafolding is taken off and all plaster work is completed now.

LOCKUP complete (week-15 & 16)

All the brickwork is now complete and home is at lockup...A big fat invoice to be paid now...almost 1/3rd of total building cost.

Home Theatre Pre-wiring by Rod

Pre-wiring was completed last week and as promised here is the seperate post..
gr8 work done by Rod (& Matt). We are quite happy with all the wiring and excited about all the new gear that will be installed after we move in.

The only sad thing on the day (other than fixing the sound insulation) was Rod jumping off a wobbling ladder and landing his foot on the half brick where he almost dislocated his ankle. Hi ankle bone almost came off but lucky that he could pull it back in place before the ambos came. I am sure that would have been like hell...I am glad that it was not a serious accident....and it didn't happen at my place...also he has to come back to finish my part-2 :)

GET WELL SOON ROD.

Wiring completed for
7.1 setup in theatre
2 wall mounts with central control for all the boxes (foxtel, dvd etc) in the theatre room ... a lot of cables run for this ...
5 x 2 speakers for different rooms (incld alfresco) with volume control knobs and the main control back to the theatre room hub... will buy marantz 7002 which can do a second zone as well.
HDMI cable from study to theatre to stream PC contents + More..

Rod with initial setup..
Media room hub ... all the required gear for HT and other rooms will go here.

Matt taking pics after the final work.

A lot happened .. in Weeks 11-14

So much happened in the last 4 week and I didnt have much time to update the blog.
We had bricking almost completed, garage built, some doors installed, ducts for cooling and heating, home theatre pre-wiring by Rod & Matt (seperate post on that soon..) , security system pre-wiring, all electricals pre-wiring.
The insulation & plasters will go next week... Can't wait...
Media room pre-wiring for cieling mount speakers and projector... Sound insulation - Bradford R2.5 for whole of media room including cieling.

Cables..Cables...Cables... So many coz we are installing home audio - cieling mounted speakers in formal lounge, family, dining, kitchen, upstairs and alfresco. I will draw up our setup on our floor plan soon.

This pic taken from across the park (to be built by March 09) from the next street.

Double Update (Week-9 & 10)

Roof tiles were laid early this month (around 2nd oct) and today they wrapped up the ground floor...but Garage is still missing (will be up soon where the brick are in the below pic)

Bricks are here... (Austral Homestead mushroom)
Kitchen wrapped up & alfresco area on left
below pic has clear view of alfresco (i.e. outdoor living area) with sliding door entry into family living area... also find the large kitchen window for easy access to/from alfresco area.

Fascia Gutters and Plumbing (Week-8)

Plumbing work near solar hot water panel...
Roof tiles are delivered...black colour...they should be up in the next... :)

Roof frames & Windows are up...(Week-7)

Full front view (taken from the park)


Main entrance frame fixed...a double door to be added soon...


Regular photo angle update ..


View from inside out at main entrance..


One problem though is our site supervisor has changed...the previous one accepted for home theatre & security pre-wiring and he was pretty cool to deal with..I haven't yet spoken to the new one... I hope he is as good or better...now I have to again ask the new one about pre-wiring etc...

More frame work on 1st floor..incld Balcony (Week-6)

Guys are getting ready to add the roof frames and tiles..hence the extra protruding frame bits added..

Windows and Door Frames are delivered so they should be up during next week..

Top Floor frame added quite quickly.. (Week-5)

(PS : Note that the house is built on a good height - quite impressed with the work so far)

View from Backyard

Frame construction started.. 3 days after slab (Week-4)

Foundation Slab is laid .. :) :) (Week - 3)