The brickwork was finished on Monday when the brickies put the window sills in and stacked up the leftovers. There's about two pallets left over.
The cornices still aren't done.
The tiles have all been delivered.
On Friday, they cleared away the rubbish and scraped around the house.
It doesn't look like it will be finished by Christmas now. The electrician finishes up on 10 December for his holidays. There's just not enough time left to get it all done :( and everyone else is pushing for their work to be finished too; the tradies will all be flat out for the next month or so.
I'm a tad disappointed (!!) especially since I have holidays from Christmas eve onwards for a few weeks, and now I can't spend it organising the new place.
As far as I can figure out:
*Cornices
*Internal joinery and front door
*Garage door
*Cabinetry (I haven't even seen the cabinetmaker yet!)
*Painting
*Tiling
*Plumbing fit out
*Electrical fit out
*Shelving in wardrobes and pantry (still trying to decide if I should get the Elfa system for my walk in)
*Eaves and al fresco ceiling
*Connections for gas, electricity, phone, water, sewer and stormwater
*Tank (including the slab for it)
*Concreting Al and the entry (can't do driveway yet because of sub division work so I guess the garage will be a storeroom for the rugrats' furniture)
Somewhere in amongst all that, I have to arrange for the cooktop, oven and dishwasher to be delivered; buy a rangehood; and fit the data/phone points and buy the hub thingo. I'll have no phone and no net without it ! eeekkk!!
I also have the new fridge to organise and apparently my lounges are waiting for me at Hardly Normals. It figures that the one time furniture arrives within a fortnight, it's when it can't go to its new home lol. And I need a new bed desperately and I'm trying to wait until the house is finished to get it. Then I have to stop spending money!
The council came back quicker than expected with the changes they require for the sub division. The driveway for the other back lot (Zoe's) has to be moved, they've put some angles on the easement driveways (we expected that) and they require stormwater proposal by 17th !! Luckily the hydraulics engineer is happy to do it quickly.
Al with walls
Bricks finished.
I like the way the ironstone roof changes all the time - sometimes it's very blue, others it's grey and when I took this photo, with the sun shining on it, very silver.
The bricks have the sandstoney appearance that I was after. So I'm happy with that choice.
In retrospect, I think I probably should have chosen the dark window frames; it looks a bit bland with the beige ones. It would also have been nice to have the front pointy bit to define the entrance, but the cost just wasn't worth it when no one will see it eventually.
The funny thing is the toilet window - no one picked up that it was the wrong size all through the plan drawing and building lol. It doesn't really matter or bother me; after all it's only a toilet window but it just amuses me that with all my anal checking this, changing that, that I missed something that is pretty obvious! ah well such is life. And the rest of the work on the house so far has been great.
Let's hope next week I have something more to show :) I can't really complain though. Some people are building their houses for a year or more - I'm so glad I'm not building with one of the big ones. I'm stressed enough now; I'd be homicidal if I had to wait that long lol
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