Photos from the inside!!!!

Finally I have had a chance to walk in the house!

• The plaster is mostly finished - just a few cornices and architraves to finish off in the ensuite and kitchen.
• The kitchen cabinets and benchtops have been installed - the sink still needs to go in (and appliances too but that's not until after handover)
• The bathroom vanities are done and the bath and shower bases have been installed.

SS tells me that the painter is booked to start on Wednesday next week and the tiler should start about a week after that. All going well he says that the house should be finished in about 5 weeks from now!! (That would be great if it happens but I'm not holding my breath just in case something doesn't go right).

Anyway, as pormised... some internal photos...

The kitchen...






Bathroom...




Built in robe...


Laundry...


Garage...


Solar panel for hot water...

Tiles...

I've just realised that I didn't put up the photos of our tile selections so here goes....

We've chosen two different floor tiles - we'll use one for the living, dining, kitchen and entry... and the other is for the bathroom, laundry and ensuite. We originally wanted one tile throughout but couldn't find one that would go with the laminates and benchtops of both the bathrooms and kitchen. Hopefully it works like we have planned (you should only see one tile at a time).

This is the selection for living, dining, kitchen and entry...

The white glass squares are a feature tile for the kitchen and will be a line along the wall of the kitchen. The mushroom one beside it is the wall tile. The grout in the walls will be white to blend with the white glass tiles. The floor tile will have an off-white grout.

The laundry...

We've used the same mushroom wall tile (only needed for the small area behind the sink) and the same floor tile as the bathrooms.

The main bathroom...


The feature tile will run down the wall of the shower and down the side of the bath (I think..)

The ensuite...

The colours are the same as the main bathroom but with this feature tile instead - I really love this tile!!

When I spoke with the SS this morning he expects the tiler to start about a week from Wednesday (after the painter is finished).

Fixing stage complete?...

I received an email last night telling me that the fixing stage is now complete! I haven't seen the inside of the house since the bricking started so I'm going to book an appointment with the SS to do a walkthrough ASAP.

If fixing is complete that means that construction is finished and the following should be done:

• the plaster, cornices and architraves have been installed (I did drop by last night but all I could see was the plaster and cornices in the garage and office - the car's headlights wouldn't show me anything else.);
• bathroom vanities;
• kitchen cabinets and benches
• doors hung.

All of this in only 2 months! I need to go in and take photos!!! I'm off to make that phone call now......

Plastering has started!!!

We had our tile selection appointment on Friday. I did take photos of our selection but I haven't downloaded them yet. We're both happy with what we chose and we came in under budget so that's a win on both accounts! I'd try to explain but I don't think I'd do it justice so you will have to wait for the photos.... Hopefully later today.

And when we stopped by on Friday the plasterers were busy putting up the plaster.

Our house number...

I've just found out that our house number is 35...

Not very exciting for most, but up until now I've known our address as lot# and had no idea of the number. Actually that's not totally true, I did look it up on the lands website and that's the number I got, but I wasn't too sure as they had the street name as something completely different.

Last night on the way home from work I had a bit of a prowl around with my torch (because the end of daylight savings means no light by the time I get there). I discovered:

• insulation bats have been installed into the walls;
• electrical rough-in has been done;
• some plumbing work has been done;
• the plasterboard has arrived!

Not much to tell...

I haven't been out to the house for almost a week and whilst I'm itching to see what's happening, I'm not sure that there's much to see. Now that all the work that's happening is on the inside, we can't see what's going on until our next site meeting with the SS.

We had an independent inspection done last Wednesday and it seems money well spent and I haven't even seen the report. The SS really tried to talk us out of getting it done which only made us more determined.

Bryan had a meeting onsite with the SS last Thursday and said that the electrician was there doing some electrical work - the rough in. The bath had been installed and the shower bases were going in. Apparently the plasterer is due to start on Thursday...

Oh and Bryan mentioned that site had been cleaned on Thursday - the piles of rubble had been removed and rubbish cage had been emptied. Unfortunately all the left over bricks that we were hoping to keep were also removed - much to our discust!

I'll post again when I have more to update.

Locked up...

Apparently...

It seems that "lock up" refers to the fact that the house now has all doors and windows installed with the potential to lock up. Apparently it doesn't actually mean you need to lock them... (is that a tad cynical?...)

I got a text message today telling me that our house is now at lock up stage. When I dropped in tonight on mey way home from work I did discover that the temporary front door is on but the temp fencing was wide open with several panels laying on the neighbours block and the laundry door open. I'd have taken pictures but now that daylight savings is over, it's too dark by the time I get there to take photo's. It won't matter now as the outside won't really change much and we're not allowed on-site without the SS.

Oh and we have another broken window!! The front bedroom window has two gaping holes - about brick size - one in each panel. I really do hope that this is not indicative of what we have to look forward to when we're living there?...

We expect the next invoice to arrive any day now. Yay!!!!!!!!