Guttering

We had the guttering installed - our gutter and roof are both in surf mist. Colourbond on the roof should go on in the next week as has been delivered to site.

We decided to go with the gutter and fascia in the same colour as we were going lighter and plan to render the entire house ( get rid of the ugly Bricks!) in two colours.

More internal photos

We have a small issue with the window in the kitchen. We asked that this be increased in width so that we have no gap between the top of the window and the cabinets. This doesn't appear to have been done correctly and now facing a little issue. For those putting in a window at the kitchen make sure you ask them to have the width increased so as to not have a plaster gap, doesn't cost anything extra. I have no idea why they just wouldn't design things correctly in the first place... but like a lot of things at metricon these things don't get taken into consideration.



Our second major issue is that we have actually paid a lot to have the windows in the lounge and dining room lowered to the floor- as you can see from photos this hasn't happened.
It appears there is an issue with the wording in the contract and our windows have not been engineered or made for this to happen. Our response to metricon is that we requested particular windows from your display homes and expect that you should understand the engineering of these things... not US! But as we didn't pick up on the contract our fault. It does however appear that this will get fixed in the next week thanks god.




Doors in the back- Ugly door handles were installed on our doors when we paid ( dearly might i add) to have these upgraded to nice slim line handles and mortice locks. Door company now has to replace a lot of the parts of these doors. As a lot of structural parts need to be replaced I am concerned and will be watching to make sure that nothing is actually just patched up.

Windows and wrapping

This window we had to ask a number of times to get included in the design. It is actually the window from the Lindrum at Keysborough however we asked to have it added to ours. It is a great window that gives amazing light into the front room and very happy with how that is looking. This is where my feature light fitting from Space comes into play as we want that to hang in that window which should look great.

For those building a 2 story this is a great upgrade and wasn't to bad on the cost side.



The house had the wrapping put in and the front Varandah was installed. This we are really happy with and gives a lot of space off our bedroom upstairs.

Finally - Photo Update!!

Finally- after a crazy month i can update this blog with some information and photos.
Frame stage is now officially finished however they have a number of things to fix. Our window issue is being resolved. To all those building with Metricon make sure you look at the height of your external doors!! We didn't pick up that they hadn't upgraded our height and are now stuck with 2100mm doors in the back of the house. Totally gutted but nothing i can do about it.

BELOW PICTURES SHOW HOUSE AS THE ROOF WAS GOING ON AND THE BACK VIEW OF THE HOUSE. SHOWS THE DOORS.

Hello

Sorry for the slack updates. We have progressed a lot in the past month. Frame and roof trusses on. It is amazing how quickly this stage has gone actually. I will be able to put photos up regularly as of this weekend. Crazy month!!! New job, china for 10 days and keeping an eye on the build! We are finally getting Internet!

Between Mon 28th june and 2nd July

This week they were busy preparing for the second floor to be completed.
Garage steel work was put in
Windows all delivered - far from happy as all left out in the weather which makes you sad when you have spent so much on wood windows. We are also very unhappy with the back sliding doors. Firstly we paid a lot to have the door handles upgraded and they have come in with very ugly ones!! we are also very unhappy with the height and going to do some begging to get this changes even if it costs more. They are just the standard size and all others have been upgraded. Unfortunately an oversight on our behalf but considering they have to change due to handles we are hoping for a positive outcome this week.

Front view


This is the back family room and doors we are not happy with!


Stairwell where the big window will go in


View from our bedroom french doors. There is a balcony to go across the whole house.



Upstairs family room and the stair well.


Our bedroom from entry .

Day 16- bottom floor finished

Builders finished the frame for the bottom floor in 1 day. Few minor things to fix the next day.

They then spent the following week working on the roof trusses and the second floor yellow tung for the floor. This part going very quickly!

Day 15-16 Frame Begins

The Frame was marked and and started today. Weather holding out thank good to allow them to get a good start!