I got plastered

The brickies have been on site for the past few days. To start it was a slow row of bricks around the base. I think they were waiting for the termite protection to be installed (???), which happened late yesterday. They had organised piles of bricks and mortar boards all round the house. Now I have most of one side bricked!

The plasterers turned up today and have put up most of the boards. A few walls, the edge bits and the cornice still to be done. I have rooms !

Classical Gas

The gas lines are now run. The bricks arrived today and are distributed around the house. They're a bit different to what I expected but nothing drastic.

Lucinda, Big G and I did a bit of tidying and re-labelling of the wiring and fixing the batts tonight; string lines have been run to help them stop popping out of the openings.

Cables

I took Friday off to organise cabling, and I don't think I've stopped since - ready for a biiiiiiiig nanna nap.

My trusty gang of subbies - Megan 'Monkey Magic', Dave 'Cable Guy', Lucinda '100 Tape Gal', Andrew 'Itchy the Insulator', and Troy 'Driller'; Zoe was at Indy preventing a t!tty crime spree.
My most grateful thanks to them all - I would still be going if I'd had to do it all myself.

The Soundscreen insulation was a nightmare. I didn't think it would be itchy stuff, HA! and it falls apart so easily. Why can't they put some kind of coating on it? We tried every tape in the universe and it was still slipping. It might, maybe, perhaps end up inside the walls where it's supposed to be, when the plasterers do their thing.




Cabling was erm .. interesting. With my trusty Dymo I had carefully cut and labelled about half the cables before everyone arrived. Dave and Megan scrambled around the roof looping, threading and poking. And we ended up with a jungle of vines in the garage.

By Sunday arvo, some of the labels were falling off so Lucinda had to relabel, then the Dymo ran out of tape.... Hooking it all up might be even more interesting .... Blue cords draped across the walkways was starting to look more attractive. But it's done now.

Plasterers are due next week and the bricks have been ordered.

Blue

That is one big roof I keep thinking. It's looking bluer now.




*Today the windows were all put in and the sliding doors are in place but not fixed properly.

The front - garage on left and my bedroom on right; you can see through window where my bed will be ! (mental note: curtains/blinds/shutters would be handy)

*The phone line has been run from outside wall to where the hub will be (that was an easy job for Telstra!)

*The bathtub is in place - man, it's a teensy bathtub! Not exactly glass of wine, candles and bubbles.

The gas guy is coming tomorrow. Plasterer is next week and the brickie as soon as he get here. Floor tiles also arrive tomorrow as well as the Soundscreen batts I've ordered - to be put between living areas and bedrooms mostly. Another part of my weekend job.

They are aiming for pre Christmas finish - possibly as early as another 6 weeks or so!!

Fire and rain

Fire - electrical rough in has been done.
Rain - plumbing rough in has been done.

I also have a bathtub, windows and half a roof. It is supposed to be a whole roof but the roofing guys - well, let's just say they've been a little tardy but now all is well and the roof is getting up there. The windows are stacked up near the fence so I hope nothing lands on them in the expected windy conditions tonight.

Sadly the camera has run out of oomph so no photos until tomorrow.

The electricians turned up at 5.40am! I did a 'little' revision of the electrics - added about 20 powerpoints, a heap of downlights (fluoros) and surge protection for the whole house. I forgot about fairy lights for the garden apparently. Now I sit and wait for the extras bill - again. Have already upgraded to anticon blanket and different internal doors. I figure that anything that will be hard/expensive to do later, should get done now. Even if I don't get my new lounge suite :( and my old bed isn't really the reason I wake up stiff and sore.

Now I have to draw a wiring diagram for the network, tv and phone cables. I'm so sleepy. And I have to do a SQL test sometime before Sunday night too. eerrrrkkkkkkk

Devil with a blue dress

Things are flying along. On Thursday I had gutters. Today I have blue petticoats! You can really get a sense of the rooms now. I think I've made the other bedrooms too big and the bathroom too small. But hey, I won't be living in that part, will I :)

Cabinetmaker has quoted kitchen, bathroom cabinets and laundry cabinet and come back with a price that surprised me - it was actually less than I'd thought. Now to select colours *sigh*. Bathroom tiles are also on the agenda.

The way things are moving I might be data cabling next weekend. Best go buy that label maker. Oh and a hammer .. and um .. clip thingies .. and um .. those wall brackets .. and um .. conduit, just in case. And price the Hills Whosit. I love high tech geek talk *ruff ruff*

So much to do, so little headspace.

I have a doorstep!

Looking into living from end of front hall.
Kitchen half wall is on the right front of the picture.

Living looking towards media door. Doors to al fresco on left.

And the garage has frames for the door!

Looking back towards front door .

All trussed up

The past two days the carpenters have been putting up the trusses. They are nearly finished and now it's really 3D. I can see how high the ceilings are. 2550 or 8'6" in the old language - bit of a difference to the ten footers I have now. The hall might need a skylight in it - I think it will be dark.

I'm not sure what comes after this part. Fascias? I know it's gonna get an anticon blanket laid over the top, then the roofing.