My apologies for not updating the blog. Im going to try to be as accurate as I can with the series of events that has occurred.
Since my last post, we had some issue with powerlines being too close to our building and we had to have protective casing installed by PD on the overhead powerlines while the Hebel walls were installed. They had an additional black screening net during the period of the installation. I believe would be for safety reasons as well.
We also had some problems with our rendering. Remembering that the colours were starkly different from what we selected, our BC and SS confirmed that there was a base layer which will be greyish looking under the colour coat render. Im not sure if 2 layers will be sufficient, but only time will tell if crack start to appear.
The hebel walls were installed on the 29th Nov 2012.
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| Hebel Wall 29th Nov 12 |
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| Hebel Wall 29th Nov 12 |
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| Hebel Wall 29th Nov 12 |
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| Hebel Wall 29th Nov 12 |
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| Hebel Wall 29th Nov 12 |
Insulation installed 30 Nov 12. Immediately after Hebel wall has been completed. The guys only used 1 day to do their insulation installation. However, they've still left some bags in the roof space. Not completed. SS says that they'll come back later after electricals to finish off the ceiling insulation.
PD didn't let us know that there was an option to have internal walls insulation for sound reasons. I do believe the sandringham 45 would benefit to have sound insulations in the void area as sound can travel up from the kitchen and family area.
Surprisingly on the 1st and 2nd of December 2012, there had been some plasters at the site plastering our walls! They started their work on the ground level first. Then finished the rest of the house the next day. TWO whole days and plastering is DONE. I bet they had been waiting to do their job but due to our side of our house not Hebel-ed in time, plastering had been pushed back.
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| Plastering |
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Poor workman ship of plasterers.
Will need to gap fill later |
3rd December 12. Facade cladding installed. It seems like our SS is really pushing it to have this house completed as much as possible before the Christmas break! The front facade in the showrooms are a mixtures of Bluestone tiles (horizontal column) and normal ceramic tiles (vertical column). The bluestone tiles are very attractive and beautiful when you see them at the showrooms, except they are also very pricey. To be exact, $12k of an upgrade. The vertical tiles cost us $2300 to upgrade. All of this is ONTOP of the $10k facade upgrade for the Beaumaris design.
As such we opted to have a standard cladding affixed to the horizontal portion of the facade. An Axon cladding from James Hardie. We told PD that we would like it to have a modern feel to it as well, so we requested for 400mm centres spacing cladding.
Initially SS installed a 133mm centres spacing cladding, we had to send an email to them stating that the cladding that they have installed is incorrect! But they did get it fixed in the end.
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| Facade installed |
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| Wrong Facade Cladding |
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| The look we are after. 400mm centres |
7 December 12
Cabinets delivered!
In my
earlier post, I mentioned that our BC told us that the colour we have chosen for our bathrooms Tribal Palm had run out of stock and we will need to pick a new colour for our bathrooms. We chose Espresso Ligna. Hopefully the colours that we selected will turn out well.
Very quickly the cabinets had been installed and we were able to finally be able to see what our colour selections were like for the first time!
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| Kitchen cabinets. |
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| Bathroom 1 cabinets |
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| Paperbark island bench |
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| Installed Kitchen Cabinets - Milano Walnut |
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| Master Ensuite Cabinets- Espresso Ligna |
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| Stairs have also been installed |
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| Contemporary Option 2 |
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| Stairs will be stained walnut brown |
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| Pivot Door |
Do you think our pivot door door handles are quite high?
15 December 12
Upper floor render completed - Time Capsule Dulux
Scaffolding have come down!
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| Facade fixed! 400mm centres |
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| Garage construction begins |
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SS has advised me then PD will be closed during the Christmas and New years period right after our garage frame has gone up. Looks like we can be moving into our new house sometime early next year!
