Painting Plus

Week 1 with the new SS is a success :)

Firstly, we saw a whole heap of mortar has been patched up around the house. The brick that was on the wrong way around has been replaced as well.

Visiting today we saw that all the painting, internal as well as external, has been completed. Finally we have eaves and downpipes painted! The sheeting at the back of the house blends really well now that it's painted too. 

Luckily the front door was left open so we could get inside. We had a couple of surprises! Our air conditioning vents are in - we are sooo glad we changed to the square ones! The mirrors have been installed in the powder room and bathrooms. We have showers now! They look really nice.

We are very happy with our paint colour inside - glad it turned out, it was a very confusing choice back in the colour consultation days!

Oh another surprise - our rangehood has been installed. Looks really sleek with the glass :)

One last small surprise, we stepped out into the balcony for the first time in daylight, and between some trees looking north...we can see a very tiny Centrepoint Tower hahaha crazy!

Enjoy the pics from this week. Looking forward to the rush of next week - we saw all the door handles, bathroom fit offs and door dampeners ready for next week. 

Cx

Wherefore Art Thou Roof?

And still no progress since my last post! Officially the slowest month - even looking at other blogs from slab poured to having roof tiles completed, it looks like our build is about a month behind - how did that happen?

So...this month has been extremely frustrating in terms of our build - and no clue as to why. All we have had done is the roof, which started last month and still hasn't been completed.

Tomorrow we are supposed to be having the eaves done and fireplace box put in, but they haven't even started the roof tiling for the lower floor yet - which is such a small surface area in comparison to the main roof. We've been waiting weeks to see it finish.

We are really not happy about the bricking either. We've been taking closer looks and it's very uneven, holes in the mortar, chipped bricks, inconsistent spacing - you name it, we've got it. And that dislodged roof tile - who knows when they will fix that. If we try to talk to our SS about it, he makes us feel almost like we have no idea what we are talking about. I'm waiting for our next onsite meeting to go through these issues in person and point out specific areas where these problems are.

So we've been updated with the following schedule, lets see how that goes:

28th Apr: Electrical rough-in, incl. speaker wiring

1st May: Gyprock installation ETA 10 days

16th: Stairs and fit out (?)

23rd: Kitchen fit out

Meanwhile, our SS left us some spray paint and we decided to mark out all the places we want our frame 'blocked' so that we can hang heavy objects such as TVs. We decided to do the fireplace (so we don't drill into the flue by accident!), leisure room, upper lounge and main bedroom. Now that was a fun exercise!

Cx

PS I think they've sent out all their tradesmen to work on their new display homes in Gregory Hill, that's why I we've seen absolutely nobody on site each time we've been there during the day over the past few weeks!

Cavity units for theatre and en-suite have arrived

Wherefore art thou roof?

Fireplace

Leisure

Media alcove in upper lounge

Main bedroom

Upper eaves and downpipes painted

Last week we saw the upper eaves and downpipes have been painted.

The scaff for the first floor has come down, however that roof tile has not been fixed which is really annoying!!

They've started on the gutter and fascia of the ground floor also - you can see it above the garage in the photos.

There are more marks on the bricks, which our SS told us is the salt coming from the bricks (or mortar?) - it's called effervescence. He said he'll need the brick cleaners to do another clean, and put a treatment on it (some type of acid treatment) to stop it from happening. Fun!

Cx

Upper Eaves and Downpipes

To end what has possibly been the slowest week, we finally have upper floor eaves and downpipes installed. 

They've also managed to do a clean of the upper floor bricks.

Some issues (pictures below): chipped roof tile, holes in mortar, and poor cleanup on bricks on some places.

This month is going to kill me. This is the current timeline our SS gave us on Friday:

Mon 7th - eaves painted

Wed 9th - upper scaff comes down

Fri 11th - lower gutter/fascia installed

Tue 22nd - lower eaves and fireplace installed

I honestly can't believe it is going to take a whole month to do all that! 

Cx

There's still mortar on bricks everywhere

Downpipe

Chipped roof tile (there's possibly more we can't see, and the displaced on we found last week still has not been fixed)

Gutter, fascia, eave 

Bad mortar job, or bad clean?

Holes in the mortar

Just looks like a mess right now!

Upper Roof Completed

Upper roof has now been completed, and the downpipes and eaves have been delivered onto site.

I feel like everything was going so fast, and now we're back to the slow stage of the build...I thought the roof and downpipes would already be done by the time we had come back from holiday.

They need to install eaves and downpipes, clean the first floor bricks, paint the eaves and downpipes and dismantle the top level of the scaffolding - I was hoping that would all be done by the end of the week, I'm not really sure why it's taking so long. After that, then they can start tiling the small sections of lower floor roof...

Cx

Downpipes and eaves delivery

A piece out of place

 

Gutters: Monument, Fascia: Paperbark

View out the back

Raise The Roof!

Despite the horribly wet weather this week, and especially today, we've managed to get most of our roof up already.

It's crazy seeing the tiles go on, we love them I love the smooth flat profile of them and the colour looks great. It looks funny at the moment as we matched the fascia to our eaves which aren't up or painted yet. 

Next week should see the top floor roof completed, eaves installed and painted, downpipes installed, first floor brick clean and disassembling of the top level of scaffolding. Can't wait to see what the bricks will look like after their bath!

Enjoy the pics

Cx

Bristile Prestige Range - Tungsten

Mr Milburn getting a closer look

What the roof looks like inside at the moment