Just had a call from Rod wishing us a Merry Christmas and New Year.
Work is now stopped till 6th January. That week work on the ground floor Hebel will start, to be followed by upstairs. Scaffolding to let them do upstairs will go up round 13th. Once the Hebel is all done, rendering can be started followed by work on the downstairs roof.
Also on the to do list for January is moving the water meter, as the current one will be in the way of the driveway once the new crossover is in place.
A little disappointed as the Hebel downstairs was planned to be started before Christmas but the key milestone was to get the upstairs roof on, which has been achieved.
On our drive to and from Creswick St we've seen the fence go up on a house on Shepherd Rd. Demolition occurred really quickly - it was there Tuesday evening, gone Thursday! It will be interesting to see how long it takes Builders Latitude 37 to do the build.
So that's it for 2013. Quite a year! Fabulous progress made on our house, from a vacant block 30/10 to plumbing, slab, frame and upstairs roof completed in 7 weeks. Looking forward to 2014 and all it brings :)
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Roof tiling done
There has been some progress this week, both in and on top of the house. The roof tiling appears complete (hard to tell, you need to get a view of the roof to be able to confirm), some internal ducting has started to be installed, and some more doors are now installed.
the front door frame, with clear glass to the right has now been installed.
some ducting :)
We received the report following Tuesday's frame inspection on Saturday, and have forwarded it to Rod. We're in the process of reading it.
this is the sliding door in our living room / study
the 3 stacker door in the family room. We would have loved to install a timber one instead as they look terrific, but were told by a lot of different people that they warp over time :( so went with aluminium instead
some ducting :)
We received the report following Tuesday's frame inspection on Saturday, and have forwarded it to Rod. We're in the process of reading it.
Thursday, 12 December 2013
And the roof tiling starts
Tuesday morning 10/12 the framework was inspected and I expect to get the report early to mid next week.
My daughter went round to the house on Tuesday afternoon to find the tiles had been delivered, and the guttering had been done. This has just come around so quickly!
Thursday late morning at my next visit, I found all the tiles were now on the roof in readiness for tiling.
My daughter went round to the house on Tuesday afternoon to find the tiles had been delivered, and the guttering had been done. This has just come around so quickly!
Thursday late morning at my next visit, I found all the tiles were now on the roof in readiness for tiling.
View of the back wall
A second view of the back wall, al fresco on the right.
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Framework ready for inspection
The good news is that the frame is now ready for inspection, at this stage happening at 10.30 tomorrow 10th December.
Posting a few photos taken yesterday - nearly all windows have been installed. And Rod called Friday to advise work on the roof should start this week.
hoping to find out what the pipe in the middle of the picture is, with the black and purple stripe...
We have vague thoughts (finding a spare $40K+) of perhaps putting a pool in in the above space. Looking at the area, if it goes ahead, it's going to have be a lap pool. No hurry!
On the left hand side of the house, I was going to put the fence across from the neighbour's fence to the front of our house level with our Master Bedroom, so that all of the front yard is unfenced and our bedroom windows can be seen from the street (see blue dashed line in photo).
Visiting with a friend yesterday, she suggested that a full height fence be built along the west boundary, then across the front of the property from the neighbour's along the footpath to the driveway/path, then along the path to the porch (red lines ). That way that whole length of garden from the back of the house (as seen above), to the footpath would be private to us. With a modern fence say in mirboo, it would look quite good. Thanks for the suggestion, definitely food for thought.
one more - the laundry is going to be fairly dark. It runs behind the two car garage, is approx 6.5m long by 2.5m wide, and only has one glass door on the northern wall at the end of the room. Easy to say now, but a window at the end,to let more light in would have been the way to go. I am thinking we could put in a skylight...
Posting a few photos taken yesterday - nearly all windows have been installed. And Rod called Friday to advise work on the roof should start this week.
Just needs the 2 master bedroom windows to be installed, plus 2 upstairs (hidden by the scaffolding)
hoping to find out what the pipe in the middle of the picture is, with the black and purple stripe...
We have vague thoughts (finding a spare $40K+) of perhaps putting a pool in in the above space. Looking at the area, if it goes ahead, it's going to have be a lap pool. No hurry!
On the left hand side of the house, I was going to put the fence across from the neighbour's fence to the front of our house level with our Master Bedroom, so that all of the front yard is unfenced and our bedroom windows can be seen from the street (see blue dashed line in photo).
Visiting with a friend yesterday, she suggested that a full height fence be built along the west boundary, then across the front of the property from the neighbour's along the footpath to the driveway/path, then along the path to the porch (red lines ). That way that whole length of garden from the back of the house (as seen above), to the footpath would be private to us. With a modern fence say in mirboo, it would look quite good. Thanks for the suggestion, definitely food for thought.
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Framework
The framework was estimated to take about two weeks.
View of Master bedroom with power box, windows leaning against WIR/Ensuite, and upstairs above the Master Bedroom are the two girls' bedrooms.
After two days, Master Bedroom on left, WIR behind that and ensuite behind that, with entry porch in the middle.
And these two, a week later. View from the street, looking like a house. Upstairs on the right is the spare bedroom, and the room to the left of that is the room at the top of the stairs.
View of Master bedroom with power box, windows leaning against WIR/Ensuite, and upstairs above the Master Bedroom are the two girls' bedrooms.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Plumbing and Slab
The build officially started 30/10.
Michael (Operations Manager) called to say they'd liked the job the demolisher had done so much they were going to recommend them going forward. And even better news, Monash Council had approved our plans even though our setback was only 6.8m, not the preferred 7.6m set by council. So this was good news all round. By then they'd done the second soil test, first soil test having been done while the house was still there.
We'd signed the contract mid September, was pretty painless if you didn't count the number of pages the three of us had to initial - and two pages of course, a copy for CG and a copy for us.
31/10 next two photos - the fence was up, portaloo onsite and all set to go
The plumbing was the first to be done. Here's what we saw on 7/11
On Wednesday 13/11, the polystyrene waffles were down. This photo was taken in the pouring rain, the day the slab was due to be poured. Although Rod, our Site Supervisor (SS), had said it could be poured if it rained, this was too much, and we were advised it would happen any day. This day was the first time we met Rod in person at the site and he advised we were aiming to have the framework up, roof on and as much Hebel on the ground floor as possible by Christmas. He'd advised that he'd give us weekly updates on Fridays and he's true to his word.
Lo and behold it was poured the next day, Thursday 14/11
at left the alfresco, and in the forefront the power box.
and one more showing the step up from the garage to the laundry.
Michael (Operations Manager) called to say they'd liked the job the demolisher had done so much they were going to recommend them going forward. And even better news, Monash Council had approved our plans even though our setback was only 6.8m, not the preferred 7.6m set by council. So this was good news all round. By then they'd done the second soil test, first soil test having been done while the house was still there.
We'd signed the contract mid September, was pretty painless if you didn't count the number of pages the three of us had to initial - and two pages of course, a copy for CG and a copy for us.
31/10 next two photos - the fence was up, portaloo onsite and all set to go
The plumbing was the first to be done. Here's what we saw on 7/11
On Wednesday 13/11, the polystyrene waffles were down. This photo was taken in the pouring rain, the day the slab was due to be poured. Although Rod, our Site Supervisor (SS), had said it could be poured if it rained, this was too much, and we were advised it would happen any day. This day was the first time we met Rod in person at the site and he advised we were aiming to have the framework up, roof on and as much Hebel on the ground floor as possible by Christmas. He'd advised that he'd give us weekly updates on Fridays and he's true to his word.
Lo and behold it was poured the next day, Thursday 14/11
at left the alfresco, and in the forefront the power box.
Demolition photos
I realised I haven't published any photos of the demo.
House with the fence up pre asbestos removal with the machine all set to begin
day 2
day 3
day 4 revealing a previously unknown to us septic tank
all gone
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