Thursday, September 23, 2010

Progress





Home early tonight so went around to check the status. Last night we marked out where we want the Ducted Vacuum to be installed as we have a provision for 5 points throughout the house. We have 3 downstairs and 2 upstairs. We are installing the unit ourselves after handover as you can get a better deal with the size of the machine and the accessories then going through Metricon.
We want to ensure that it is a powerful unit that works well! Having had a few in other houses definitely worth the investment, makes life a little easier.

Glad to see they were all put in approx in the right locations to what we want. TV points have all been installed and the phone lines.

Electrical will go in next week and hopefully the carpenters will make a start on the weatherboard tomorrow. The outside is supposed to be at lock up by the end of next week.

We also had the front pillars rendered which when coloured dark should look great against the lighter colours of the upstairs.

The next few weeks we are supposed to have people on site everyday working on various things so hopefully things start to move a bit quicker now that it is almost at lock up.

One good thing: the doors at the back have been fixed and the chunky handles have been removed so that the proper hardware can be installed. Will look 100 times better.



All looking good so far!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Heating in !


Back from China! House Prgress

After a few weeks of being away in China for work it has been nice to come home to a lot of progress on the house.

The bricking was done very quickly with a crew of about 15 guys on site!

Today the back roof went on which now means we are totally waterproof now.







Heating system was also installed on both levels. Cooling we will put into the second floor after handover.

Windows and doors in our bedroom were also put in and look great - very happy with them and should look great stained in the dark colour against the wood panels.

In the last week the front pillars have also been rendered. The remaining house we will render after handover.