Fresh Stuff Occasionally
Today we had some nice weather and I had an opportunity to get down to the house with the camera and take a few new shots. Ceilings have been painted and the undercoat is on. The next week will see the painting continue and then we should see the floor installed. The kitchen people are…
Things are moving along well after a bit of a slow down over the Christmas/New Year period. Plastering is almost done as is the tiling. The electrician and Telstra were on site today getting the power and phone line from the gate to the house. Once we get a break in the weather we can…
I haven’t had a chance to take a photograph, but there has been a lot of progress in the last fews days. All of the roof sheets are on for the house, they just need to put the ridge capping in place and the roof sheets for the verandahs. Hopefully this will be done by…
I got a start on the cabling today. I spent about 6 hours on site and got the catenary cables installed in the roof and the Cat-5E C-Bus cabling installed in the main house. This photo shows the cables that I will install: Cat-5e for C-Bus and Alarm keypads Cat-6 for Data 4 Core and…
The power pole has been installed – The electricians should be coming back next week to connect the small pole to the big pole!
The brickies have started thanks to a cancellation on another job. After two days they have bricks to the wall height for about 2/3 of the house. By the end of tomorrow they should have completed the first half of the brickwork.
The framing continues. We took these photos on the weekend – about two-thirds of the roof trusses are up. By the end of this week we should have all the roof trusses up and we will be ready to start putting the roof sheets on and getting the bricks laid – all 19,000 of them…
After several weeks in council, we finally got approval to start building and things have started moving ahead. The first thing we had to do was prepare the building platform. Unfortunately the lovely gum tree that first sold us on the block ended up being right in the middle of the platform, so it had…
We have received our final plan pack from PAAL. I have uploaded a scan of the floorplan in pdf format:Floorplan.pdf We have a meeting with our builder on site this Saturday to start the next step in the process