January &amp; February Update

18th Jan 13

20th Jan 13Completed Hebel on Garage

23rd Jan 13 - Scaffolding for garage roof

Garage roof

24th Jan 13 Completed garage roof

Garage roof completed in 1 week! Tooo easy!

We had a call from our SS stating that the electrician were at the garage fixing up the electricals in it. He said that on our drawings, the garage was not an extended one. As such, we had an additional light on the front wall of the garage door (for flood lights) which may not be in the right location. We came down to the site and told the electricians where we wanted the lights to be, they were very willing to help us. One of them even told us that we should be watching out for the painters as they were washing down the foothpaths with white paint. Pretty sure the council didn't order white footpaths when they approved our building permit.

The garage roof tapers to the rear of the garage because of this design, we managed to get a credit back for our S flashing gutter box. You will use a S flashing gutter box when your garage is on the boundary line of your property, this flashing will prevent the gutter box from sitting on your neighbour's boundary line. Our BC initially assumed we needed this, but looking back at the design of the garage, we didn't have to. Saving ourselves close to $300. The gutter box will sit to the rear of the garage, not the side as initially planned.

We are in the midst of painting the interiors this week. The painters started their work late last week due to the Australian Day weekend and I believe they had the whole house under 1 coat in a single day. The guys there were dressed in a full suit and they had a machine which sucked paint and the painter would spray paint the entire wall.

Spray painter machine

End of 1st week of painting

Single coat on the architraves

The lounge room

Laundry Door

2nd Coat on laundry door

We wanted to leave the laundry door the timber look, just like how the showrooms have. We told our SS that it was our plan to have the door stained after handover. He says that he'll have the door completed as per our contract. We didn't get a chance to have the contract changed, and BAM! we have a whitedoor now. I looked on gumtree and we can get another door for about $130. Pretty cheap to replace, Im just not sure if we have the time and strength to do it all.

2nd Coat on internal garage door

2nd coat on internal doors

The 2nd coat of paint to the door really adds the gloss to the finish and make the door look really grand! I can't wait till the carpets and the flooring come in!

29th Jan 13 Our bathtubs! One for the upper floor and
another free standing alexander for the Ensuite

30 Jan 13 - Bathtub installed!

Master Ensuite Vanity - No conies to the ceiling
full tiling to the entire room

29th Jan 13 - Telstra trench dug and installed

A damaged steel rib from the slab
This seems to be quite concerning that
the slab is SO exposed

So our SS had a timber piece installed in-between our ground level and our upper level to 'join' the two.

If you look at the photos, you can see that this timber piece really is an eyesore to the void area. We went to the showrooms and one of the main reasons why the Sandringham 45 is such a beauty is because of the void that it had in the kitchen and family area. This entire area needs to be a straight flush/plumbed piece of wall. Our SS says that the timber can prevent future cracking and possibly add strength to the void. I say that I don't mind having it crack - I rather the grandeur look than a piece of timber. He even said that PD doesnt build as per showrooms! :0 I was so shocked! Its like saying, you're going to the supermarket to pick out a product but when you get home and you open the package, you find out that the product wasn't what it was advertised on the packaging! We didn't request for this timber 'upgrade', therefore we shouldn't have to put up with it.

In the end, we emailed the office and our SS, of which later he agreed to remove the timber for us, and finish the void the same way the showrooms have. I know for a fact that the frames were not plumb in the joining area of the upper and ground floor, as such the contracter may have just wanted an easy way out of making the frames plumb and use a piece of timber to cover up the area.