construction

24 March 2016 - Painting ...

 Ensuite Shower

 Ensuite Shower

 Main Bathroom Shower

 Ensuite Shower

 Front of House

  Front of House

Pantry

Internal Switchboard

Painted Theatre (that is dark brown :)


14 February 2016 - we are at Lockup!!!!

Front door in the colour of primer!

Garage Door with right side pillar in render

from "the driveway" 


06 February 2016 - gyprock is almost completed!
Lounge with the TV inset over the gas fireplace
Theatre room with the TV inset in place
rainwater tank is installed!
The downspouts are all connected, and the tank is already collecting water.
rendering on the pillars is completed too!
The rendering on the pillar and across the front has been done.

25 January 2016 - electrical rough in and air con installed!
Wiring bundle coming down the wall into the garage
Air con zone controller, and tradie
22 January 2016 - fascia done and ply reinforced wall is up!
Fascia with a roof vent in place
Fascia completed from front of house.
Reinforced ply wall is up!
13 January 2016 - roof completed!
From the front, in the early evening sun.
From the right side, at the back - the alfresco under the roof line!
From inside the house, showing the sarking and the whirlybird!
From the left side of the house - look at that roofline!
09 January 2016 - sarking and roofing material delivered!
Rolls of sarking material - ready to be installed! 
Underside of the roofing sheets. Delivered, stacked and ready to install!
26 December 2015 - plumbing progress!

Plumbing lines (black) and gas line (yellow) to the infinity gas hot water system.
Gas line (yellow) to the theatre wall gas point.
Overhead water (black) and gas (yellow) lines.
Plumbing lines to the laundry. Green (recycled water from the rainwater tank) is an option for the washing machine.
Also shown are 2 hot taps and 2 cold taps (black) - 1 each for the laundry (slop or mud) sink and the washing machine.
Water to ensuite toilet. Green hose indicates water from the rainwater tank.
21 December 2015 - the bricks are done!

Back side of the house. Alfresco at far end.
Front of the house, garage view. The half pillar will have a wooden post added to the top of it.
Looking through the front door. The metal post is for support only.
View from around the corner.
29 November 2015 - the bricks have been delivered!

Brick delivered - ready for brickies to get busy!
Front pillar has electrical added for the lights we will install there.
Electrical added for the other light to be installed on the other pillar at the corner of the garage.
22 November 2015 - the windows are in!!

Study nook, looking out the front of the house.
Over the bathtub in the main bathroom.
19 November 2015 - the frame is up!!

View from the front - east facing side.
View from the side - the north facing side of the house.
14 November 2015 - the frame has been delivered!!!

View from the footpath. Steel frame stacked up ready to assemble.
View from left front corner of the house.  Roof trusses stacked on the far side.
Some of our windows. You can see the corner window for the study nook, near the front door.
Such excitement! Hopefully will have an assembled frame in a week!

31 October 2015 - we have a slab!!!!

Slab is poured! Garage set down on the right with porch set down on the left of the pic.
Left over waffle pods in the right rear of our block.
Slab view from left boundary halfway down.
Left over waffle pod pickup happened while we visited. The truck picked them up.
Closest capped drain is the tub in the main bath.
Slab view from left front of the house. Orange pipe is main electric feed to the metre box.

24 October 2015 - and then they were capped......




23 October 2015 - from piers to drains.....








22 October 2015 - Here go the pics.... so amazing that things seem to be speeding along already... Our Slab Supervisor is great and very informative.  Screw piers - not much to see - apparently required due to the sandy nature of our soil... bodes well for drainage!  haha!










1 comment:

  1. Hi, How far are you now? Handover done?

    We are building Cordova 2 with McDonald Jones (just placed on construction list)

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