Electrical Rough-in

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't updated in a while...there just hasn't been much to update.

However, I think we're on the move again this week. But still, we are behind on what and when we've been told things are happening.

Since my last post, this is how far we've gotten:

• Air conditioning ducting
• Electrical rough-in
• Speaker pre-wiring
• Noggins for my spray painted areas (woohoo!)
• Half lower floor roof tiling completed (alfresco/leisure out back)
• Fireplace and flue installed
• Cavity units for sliding doors installed (theatre and ensuite)
• Gyprock delivered onto site

Our SS called us today to tell us that our lower roof tiles would be finished today, but alas they have not.

Schedule: roof to be completed, gyprock to begin Monday for 10 days, doors/cornices to be installed, staircase install, then lockup

I think that will take us at least to the end of the month. It's really starting to drag on now.

I hope everyone else is getting things moving along on their sites!!!

Cx

Noggins put in above the fireplace

Cavity unit for ensuite

Lower roof tiling finally starting, silver thing is for the fireplace

Electrical rough-in, two speaker points; and air con ducting

Gyprock delivery

Looks like cornices?

Theatre room wiring

Theatre room podium provisions for step lights

Powerpoints, data and phone points for office

Scary ducting action in the roof

More ducting at back of house, duct on right is in the WIR

Gyprock delivery in our bedroom

The fireplace!

Speaker cabling in alfresco

Electrical rough-in for kitchen, and duct put in for range hood

FC sheeting put in finally sealing up the house walls

Closeup of the fireplace - so tempted to rip off the cardboard to have a looksie!

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 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

 

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