Tiling started

14/08/2012

Got an update from the SS to say that all fixing is complete. Kitchen and bathroom ceaser stone have been measured and will be installed at a later date. He will notify us when they are installed so we can pickup the off cuts. No guarantee that they might be thrown out so it's our responsibility to pick them up ASAP. 

Tiling will start Thursday so hopefully by the weekend we will see some results. Very anxious to see the tiles since the tile choice was a last minute decision and not our first choice. I mentioned to our SS that we have sorted out the 2.1m tiling with Di Lorenzo so we don't need to meet up with the tiler this week.

18/08/2012

 Bathroom

 Bathroom shower

 Bathroom WC

Stack of tiles outside the ensuite

Ensuite with the concrete mix laid.

Ensuite shower and toilet 

Some of the tools of the trade

Grout and adhesive mix

Empty tile box

Sand in the Study room which is used to mix with the concrete base

Powder room prepared for the concrete mix

The P35 control joint between in the stairwell in lieu of the standard MDF cover board

    

Staircase photos. In an earlier post I mentioned that I might need to gyprock the staircase, well it's good to know this is already covered.

Aluminium bifold doors installed. Two reasons we chose aluminium, one it's much cheaper, two no maintenance compared wood.

Portico prepared for tiling, by the way that's the portable generator the contractor is using as there's no electricity onsite.

 Plumbing for the water tank installed

  

 Rainwater do not drink

Damaged water tank, not sure if this will cause integrity issues and if M will replace this. I will have to take this up with the SS.

Close up of the damage

Kitchen and vanity cabinetry installation started

04/08/2012

We were contacted by Di Lorenzo on the weekend about their concerns about tiling to 2.1m upstairs by our selves post hand over. This would cause some wastage and damage to the walls in the process and the tiling lines would probably be a bit weird. Anyway they would allow us to get the current 25% off sale price on the additional tiles needed upstairs. So we got an updated quote and paid today for the additional tiling. Luckily this was sorted out this week as we were told that tiling would start commencing Monday next week.

8/8/2012

Got a call from our SS with the following updates:

- The carpenter has finished all the fixing

- The kitchen, bathroom and laundry cabinetry will be installed today

- Tiling to start next week

12/08/2012

Yay the kitchen installation has been started!

L shaped island bench which will have water fall edges

The cupboard corner space in the top of the picture which will be unusable. We did consider putting a door opening on the other side but didn't like the look so we removed this option.

Decide to run cat6 to the kitchen island bench just in case. This is where we will have the Clark Razor 5940 stainless steel undermount sinks.

Kitchen sinks should look like this

Our kitchen doors are Natural White in gloss 2 pack polyurethane with vogue profile. All top cupboards are "push to open" touch catches. Microwave tower on the left is also an upgrade, and it's an extra $650 just for the inbuilt microwave! 

 Where the Baumatic Undermount Rangehood will be installed

 Cavity for the rangehood

Cupboard doors to the rangehood use different push to open touch catches, these lock in once closed and can only be opened by actually pushing the door, where as the others can be opened by pushing or pulling the door.

 As part of the Spoilt for Choice Promotional we get a 900W upright cooker here.

In the original floor plan there is a void to the right of the kitchen bench top, we got this deleted and extended the bench and put in extra cupboards. 

 The 3 pot drawers to the right of the upright cooker. The middle drawer is shorter in depth due to the tap.

 Butler's pantry will also use the same colour theme as the kitchen

  

 All top cupboards are "push to open" touch catches

 Butler's pantry will have a Clark Cellini round ERT overmount.

Butler's sink should look like this

    

Pantry cupboards, they are nice and deep so there will be lots of storage space. Since the Butler's pantry opens into the laundry, we decided to use the same colour theme as use in the kitchen. Natural white cupboards in gloss 2 pack polyurethane.

Laundry bench top will extend over the washing machine/dryer to give us more bench space.

  

Broom cupboard which will have a power point installed inside.

  

Powder room vanity and shower

Powder room vanity with Asian Night 7949 laminate from Wilsonart

  

Bathroom shower and tub water proofing

Bathroom vanity installed with the same theme as the powder room

 

Bath tub with an additional drain to catch any leaks which is plumbed directly outside the building.

 

WC water proofing

Ensuite water proofing and vanity

Ensuite mirror will extend past the vanity

   

Ensuite shower and WC

Our 7093 litre water tank, I still can't get over how much this is costing us.

They painted the wall before placing the water tank on the slab. I think the colour of the tank (Colorbond Dune) blends in quite well with the render colour (Dulux Dreyfus). I requested that they add an extra 100mm to all sides on the utility slabs for the installation of a screen, but in hindsight I should have doubled it to 200mm.