Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Electrical Complete - 17.10.2012

So I went onsite today and saw that my electrical work is now all complete. My SS emailed me late last night and asked if I could meet him onsite tommorrow morning so we can go over the elctricals before he starts to Gyprocking :)) Very happy to hear from him, so of course I said YESSSSSS!!!

On the other side, my Gyprock got delivered today, so that was a good thing as well, so hopefully they will start that soon, but hoping my insulation gets done tomorrow, as this is something that needs to be done still before the gyprock goes up.

Further, follow up on my garage door, EBH came back with a quote to go from a manual door to an automatic door which came at a very reasonable price (just over 600), however the PCV is costing 500 bucks, something which i'll fight considering it wasn't my fault.

Anyhow...here are some pics of our electricals...

Cabling for NBN




CAT 6 Cabling :)


Meter box


Gyprock Delivered

Saturday, 13 October 2012

Bricks Complete - 02/10 Aircon Ducting in - 12/10/2012


Guys here are my latest pics of the bricks continuing from my last blog and to when they have finished and the ducting going in.










were the house will be rendered


The brickies hard at work



Material for the eaves

Eaves completed for this section of the house

Eaves going on
Bricks Complete

Rendering complete

Rear view of the house - bricks complete

Aircon Wires

Rear of house

Aircon ducting



very happy with the bricks
Side of the Garage



Update on the House - 14/10/2012

So its been a while since my last post and much has progressed which is fantastic great. I have picked up a couple of things as well which I'll drot down so hopefully others wont make the same mistake as what we have. Its not the worst case, and can be fixed, but means a little bit more time and money will need to be spent post handover to get this done.


On a more positive note, I went to the house yesterday and saw that my Bricks were all finished and cleaned and they look great, exactly how we expected it to be. I remember the brickies were fantastic and took there time to make everything perfect, so very happy about that.

The front of the house has also been rendered and the eaves and downpipes have also been installed and fitted. They have also straightened our frames in the house which is great.

The aircon guy came during the week and has installed all the aircon ducting and is look good. I looked at the location of the outlets, and seems good to us. If i think back now, this was not covered off as part of the electrical appoints at the Home Options Gallery.


A couple of teething issues we had picked up was that the rear sliding door in our family area is a single door sliding, and we wanted this to be a double sliding door. So i'll leave this as it is and will get this fixed post handover. I met with my SS during the week and found out that my Garage door is manual, and not automatic :( This was because we choose the base contract price from EBH's, but the contract itself doesn't mention anything about this? Anyhow, i'll be taking this back to EBH, im happy to pay the upgrade fee  but not the fee to raise a PCV now during construction. Will let you know how i got with this.

Also, we went over our electrical plans again and noticed a few things that we missed. We missed a double power-point in one of the bedrooms and forgot to get a 2 way switch in our living room. The SS said he can put some draw strings in place for me and said that getting this done after handover is quite easy.

I'll now post some pics up of the house

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Brickies Started - 19/09/12

So our bricks go delivered on Tuesday evening and the brickies had started on the Wednesday and worked on the foundations on day 1. Here are some initial pictures.

Brickies onsite


Our Vino Bricks and Offwhite cement



form work started

brick finish


brickies hard at work

Roof Complete - 16/09/12

Over the last week or so a fair bit has happened. As of the 16th of September, our roof is now complete, and our gutters and facade are also complete. The plumbers came in as well and completed their bit as well, so things have been moving along quite well till date. On Wednesday (19/09/12), our brickies were onsite and started to work on the foundations so the bricks could be laid. So things are happening quite well....

Here are some pics...


they were onsite from 6:30am and started on the roof. By 8:30 am they were already laying the tiles


form work done

Our roof tiles



gutters and facade

contractors hard at work - great bunch of guys

roof complete - front of house

roof complete - close up view of the front of the house

roof complete - rear of house