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

Furniture Lust

It has been no secret that my interior inspirations have been the french provincial, farmhouse and hamptons styles. I love neutral tones such as white and grey, and I love having wooden features around the home. Any piece of furniture that has a white distressed base with a wooden/oak top kills me! And I love linen upholstered furnishings they are so beautiful!

I also love industrial style lighting, which gets a little confused with our furniture choices - but I like what I like, and I'll try to make it work!

We've made a few purchases over the past couple of months for those big furniture items we'll be needing as soon as we are allowed to move into the house.

I have no idea how they will look in the house - I often wonder if our house may be too 'modern' for our furnishings, but I don't care because I'm in love with what we've got! I just can't wait to use them!

I think now we'll wait until we move in for any more big purchases, we'll have to deal with buying all new appliances too!! (I'm dying for a french library with a ladder, Mr Milburn is dying for a partner's desk with a leather top and a banker's lamp!)

Oh and when I say "i", I mean "we"... 

Cx

Two linen/cotton blend sofas 

Mongolian Lamb cushions (smallest size, in 'Amythest')

Crossback antique white cafe style chairs

Sweetest oak top table - extendable to huge!

Linen tufted coffee table

Linen tufted bed

Industrial style lamp with rose gold accents for bedside tables (such a good find this one)

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

Bricking Complete, Roof Tiling Begins

Last Friday we received an email from Wisdom Accounts with the invoice for Stage 4 - Bricking completed. We had a look yesterday when we got back, it doesn't look complete but we really don't know, and the FC Sheeting on part of the back of the house hasn't been installed, but I've been told that's not part of Stage 4.

Anyway, we were surprised that they hadn't started on the gutters and fascias until today - must have been some wet weather in Sydney whilst we were away!

I've got pictures from yesterday of the completed brickwork, roof tile delivery and the start of the guttering below.

They also fixed those weep holes above the garage. 

Everything seemed to be going up so fast, but now it's almost like its all slowing down again!

Cx

Gutters, fascia and roof tiles delivered

Completed brickwork of rear and fireplace

Main bedroom with feature wall in front of wardrobe

Second bedroom - No more missing windows yay

Second bedroom - completed bricking

Third bedroom - completed bricking (fourth bedroom as FC sheeting not yet completed)

Looking down into the leisure

And then the top floor gutter and fascia installation that began today on the first floor..

It's hard to distinguish between the scaffolding and gutter/fascia but if you squint...