Ground floor roof tiling and electrical cabling complete

10/07/2012

Got a call from our SS today, roof tiling on the garage and rumpus should be complete now and the electrical cabling can start. By late next week council inspection of the frame should commence. We will also try to organise our own independent inspector as well.

15/07/2012

Garage roof tiling complete

Rumpus and grand outdoor room tiling complete

Main board installed

Back of the main board. The large orange tube is power from the street, and the smaller orange tube runs to the sub board under the stairs. We paid extra to have a sub board installed there so this should be more convenient for access.

Location of the sub board and where all the cat6 cables run under the stairs

Butler's pantry

Kitchen

Kitchen exhaust duct, we opted for an undermount rangehood hopefully it will have enough grunt to do the job

Speaker cables for post handover installation in Kitchen

Speaker cable runs will all terminate to the Rumpus room. 

Speaker cable at the back of the rumpus

Other speaker cable at the back of the rumpus

We also have two speaker cables run into the grand outdoor room

Aircon ducting in the first floor main bedroom

Bathroom toilet exhaust fan duct leading out to the eaves

Grill for the toilet exhaust fan

Grill for the powder room exhaust fan

Grill for the kitchen exhaust fan. Not sure what that little pipe that is sticking out on the left is used for? Anyone out there have any ideas? My guess it's an overflow pipe for the bathtub.

Visit from Ms Cockatoo

07/07/2012

Dropped by the house to check how things were going and Ms Cockatoo decided to fly by and visit us. When she (I'm just going to assume it's a she) soon realised we didn't have any food she flew away in disgust! I might have to grow some giant sun flowers in our big backyard once we move in.

Anyway back on topic, scaffolds have been removed, except for the scaffolding for the portico and preparations have been made for the roof tiling on the garage and rumpus room. House looks much cleaner and it feels like there is more room on the side.

In the photo above you can clearly see the colour difference between the painted render and the natural render colour. Drainage pipes will need to be completed before painting the ground floor.

First floor eaves and render painting complete

01/07/2012

The first floor eaves and render painting is now complete. The scaffolds will eventually be removed to allow for the ground floor roof tiles to be installed. Not sure when the portico will be rendered and when the ground floor render will be painted. Render colour is Dulux Dreyfus (same as the Riva display home at Kellyville), eaves and lining are painted in Dulux Taupe White, gutters and windows are Colorbond Woodland Grey, fascia and garage door are Colorbond Dune.

Drainpipes are painted the same colour as the external wall.

Cavity sliding doors delivered and waiting

Rendering almost complete

24/06/2012

We haven't been receiving any updates from our SS for the last 3 weeks which I assumed this was due to the rain, so I thought I should leave a SMS. Got a message back saying that he has been leaving voice mail messages for the past two weeks, which I find a bit hard to believe as:

1. I have visual voice mail service on my phone so it's really easy to see if anyone has left messages. 

2. I can easily see all my missed calls on my iphone

3. I don't have anyone else complaining about me not returning calls.

Anyway finally spoke to our SS and he said that they have almost finished the rendering. Only thing left is the portico.

Drain pipes complete on the first floor

Looking over the garage

We opted for privacy windows for bedrooms over the standard

Additional window we asked to be installed into bedroom 3, basically allows us to look over the backyard. Vision is limited due to the roof and tree but still an okay view.

The rumpus room roof

With the massive gum tree we have, it's expected that we'd have lots of leaves :(

Rumpus and grand outdoor room

From left to right, rainwater tap, hot water, cold water and gas

I'm guessing that the white strips on both sides of the wall are control joints to allow for expansion, contraction, foundation movement etc.

First floor gutters, fascia and roof tiles complete

It's been raining a lot in Sydney the past few weeks and we've been concerned about the massive soaking the house has been getting since there's no roof. Anyway to our surprise they have finished all the first floor gutters, fascia and roof tiles. Just as well, the rain just hasn't stopped. The ground floor still doesn't have any roof tiles but at least the main part of the building is covered. Most of the first floor hebel panels have been installed.

Picture of the back of the house. The garage, rumpus and outdoor room don't have roof tiles yet. I forgot to take a picture from the front, so this is the only external photo I have for now.

The roof tiles we chose, Boral French Terracotta (unglazed) in Eclipse colour.

The front door frame

Sarking on the first floor. This should keep most of the dust and dirt out of the roof and allow us to use some of the space for storage. 

The first floor is pretty dry considering the rain we've had prior to the roof installation

Some misguided screws which should be holding the yellow tongue boards down. This will need to be fixed otherwise we'll have creaking floors.

Some hebel in the garage not sure how much more will be needed to finish the walls, but I'll ask if we can keep any left overs.

Portico complete