This week, I saw the site supervisor for the lock-up stage review. He was a little late, but being a busy Monday morning the only surprise was that he tried to fit me in at all.
When we were there on Saturday, there was a big mud splatter on the bedroom wall that we were going to ask about. But by the Monday the brick cleaner had been through and done his thing (by all accounts he was very happy with the brick layer)... one less thing to bug the SS about.
I was right, the bricks were to fill in the gable (pictured above), 400 is the minimum order. I don't think they forgot so much as changed the standards, but either way I'm happy, bricks all the way up and plenty left over for a letterbox.
The plasterers finished on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday saw the carpenters come and start their work. Not sure when the brickie returned to do the gable, but it was done by Saturday. Here's the progress in pictures:
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Here are the doors and other bits and pieces that were delivered on Monday.
More stuff for the carpenters - taking up space in the hallway.
The shower has it's vilaboard... as far as I know it's still waiting for the waterproofing. The downpipes should be happening shortly too.
The en-suite toilet has it's door and architraves.
Now the doors have been hung in the bedrooms (this is Bed4)
This is the main bedroom looking towards the WIR... doors but not much else.
So does the door to the en-suite - and to the left you can see they also started the skirting boards.
We also have the external door to the en-suite! (Don't worry we plan to put some sort of frosting / curtain on it!)
We also have an internal access door from the garage... they had fully plastered over it for lock-up stage! 8-)
And last but not least - the front door! Yay - looks so much better than the temporary one!
All in all, we are very happy with the progress.
Carpentry continues for another week or so, then painting and tiles, little by little every day...
5 comments:
Great stuff!!! Now I shall follow your progress and hope I catch up :)
An external door to the ensuite? Now that's different!
Hope to meet you soon, we drive past every time we are down and haven't run into you yet. Wonder what this week will bring.
Gorgeous ensuite door. Completely decadent, like a Thai resort!
Your build has been so nice and steady. Fingers crossed for you that it continued :)
Your build seems to just keep moving along nicely, and its all starting to come together now, love the external door in the ensuit :)
Progressing nice and steady, no real dramas? Exciting stuff happening inside....all your dreams coming to life and with better weather so much nicer to visit.
Hey JK, looking forward to meeting you too, we drop past occasionally to see if anything is happening with you or LouNa, one day it will happen - ever if it's only when one of us moves in - there's no guarantee who will be first either!
Yes Reinsey & Tash, the en-suite door is a bit different. Another couple who built it in the Hunt Club put a spa outside next to it... we think we would like to do the same one day, now that would be resort-like.
Hey Debra, no, no dramas really... some missing insulation that was quickly added, and temporary down pipes that fell off are about the worst of it so far. Though I noticed John working on the front porch the other week - and no post other than some cryptic comment... you know I'm waiting for it!
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