Things are moving along quickly at the moment so you can all expect fairly regular updates at this stage.
House visit happened on Friday night. It had been raining so it was really muddy all round. I always somehow manage to wear the most inappropriate footwear to the site - thongs. Needless to say it was difficult trying to enter the house with out getting my feet dirty. Del always seems to have his white shoes on too! *mental note - get gumboots and leave them in the car.*
So after negotiating our way through the mud and scaffolding we entered the house. We were thrilled to find wires wires ever where, wires wires up and down the stairs! Power point brackets all over the place. It looks as though we did well on putting in loads, although I am sure we will need more!
Heating and cooling ducts have been installed along with the evaporative cooling unit and the solar panel for the hot water is on the roof.
Plaster board is laying in wait for installation and we have a bath frame which Del tested out! See below pictures for that one - classic!
There was one thing we couldn't believe - for all of you who are building and are about to do your electrical appointment take notes here.
Knowing that we wanted to put some heavy chandelier type lighting in some areas of the house we had told the lady at electrical that that was what we wanted. She advised us that we should put a reinforced bracket in the roof for it so when attaching our lighting it would not pull out the plaster and fall from the weight of it. "Good idea" we say and "how much"? This cost somewhere over the $100 mark for a "reinforced chandelier provision" AKA a block of wood banged in between two beams using 4 long nails. OUCH! Had we have know this we would have "banged in" our own bit of wood and saved ourselves about $400! Ahh you live, you learn, you teach!
Next problem - How is it that one "reinforced chandelier provision" is missing from the most difficult to get to spot - directly about the staircase? Why? Its not like we are going to be able to bang that one in ourselves! Dang it!
Oh yes, lastly but not leastly pretty much all of our bricking is up. Only a little bit left to go down the left side of the house!
Peace out
Ax
House visit happened on Friday night. It had been raining so it was really muddy all round. I always somehow manage to wear the most inappropriate footwear to the site - thongs. Needless to say it was difficult trying to enter the house with out getting my feet dirty. Del always seems to have his white shoes on too! *mental note - get gumboots and leave them in the car.*
So after negotiating our way through the mud and scaffolding we entered the house. We were thrilled to find wires wires ever where, wires wires up and down the stairs! Power point brackets all over the place. It looks as though we did well on putting in loads, although I am sure we will need more!
Heating and cooling ducts have been installed along with the evaporative cooling unit and the solar panel for the hot water is on the roof.
Plaster board is laying in wait for installation and we have a bath frame which Del tested out! See below pictures for that one - classic!
There was one thing we couldn't believe - for all of you who are building and are about to do your electrical appointment take notes here.
Knowing that we wanted to put some heavy chandelier type lighting in some areas of the house we had told the lady at electrical that that was what we wanted. She advised us that we should put a reinforced bracket in the roof for it so when attaching our lighting it would not pull out the plaster and fall from the weight of it. "Good idea" we say and "how much"? This cost somewhere over the $100 mark for a "reinforced chandelier provision" AKA a block of wood banged in between two beams using 4 long nails. OUCH! Had we have know this we would have "banged in" our own bit of wood and saved ourselves about $400! Ahh you live, you learn, you teach!
Next problem - How is it that one "reinforced chandelier provision" is missing from the most difficult to get to spot - directly about the staircase? Why? Its not like we are going to be able to bang that one in ourselves! Dang it!
Oh yes, lastly but not leastly pretty much all of our bricking is up. Only a little bit left to go down the left side of the house!
Peace out
Ax
Wow! Its all happening quickly Ams. Love the pic of Del in the bath too!! Good idea to get that re-inforcement, we want one chandelier but think Mark will have to bang a piece of wood in. That said, $400 is steep - yowch!!
ReplyDeletehow cool is this.............makes me want a new new house......congrats guys....
ReplyDeleteYour build is coming along nicely :-)
ReplyDeleteKarmaz: It is all happening quickly! as is yours though, just feels like more time for you because of of builder change delays maybe? I am just going to have to pick a lighter chandelier for that spot I think.
ReplyDeleteAnon: is this JT? You just bought a house if it is...well done! maybe one day you can do the new new house thing too...but enjoy this one first, because its living in something else that helps guide your mind to what you really really want from your next home.
melmox: thanks! now you have cut and fill it wont be long!