Construction has seems to have slowed down a fair bit since the start of our build.
It probably means that the build is fairly difficult at this stage.
We're still in the midst of fixing Hebel to the exterior of our home. Since the last post, nothing significant has happened other than more panels going on. The panels apparently weigh about 80kg EACH and theres usually only 3 men working on fitting them to the frame.
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| 18th Oct 12 Hebel on the South wall of the house completed |
The above picture is where our Study (sliding door) and Lounge room (fixed window) will be located.
As you can see the garage has not been constructed yet.
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| 19th Oct 12 Rear of the building Hebel panels completed |
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| Rear of the house. Our large upgraded window panels. |
In the above picture, the window panels had been upgraded at our tender appointment, but the drawings were not updated when we sat our electrical appointment. Only when L & O Tech came out to install the double GPO at the location did we realise that the wall in that area was too small to cater for a wall plug.
So instead we had it shifted to our laundry room to cater for our ironing.
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| 19th Oct 12 Completed North side wall |
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| 19th Oct 12 Completed front facade |
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| 19th Oct 12 Ducted Vacuum roughed in |
We have upgraded our garage almost a 3 car garage size. The 3rd lot will be serviced as a workshop/storage area.
Im not sure how strong the Duc Vac is going to be. And whether it will get clogged up easily. It seems like the the pipes they've used aren't very wide at all :S
PD advised that they will finish ALL of the ground Hebel by 19th October. And they did! Well done guys! Credits to our S/S being so organised!
Week Beginning 21st Oct 12
Some exciting thing to be completed this week:
- Wrapped on Upper floor
- Hebel panels on Upper floor
- Plumbing for upper floor
- Heating/cooling unit installed
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| 22nd Oct 12 Plumbing for the upper floor completed |
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| Pipes in the bulkhead above refrigerator space. |
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| Stacker pipe to service upper floor as well |
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| Breather pipes |
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| Plumber installed tap & pressurised pipes |
23rd October
All scaffolding have been moved onto the nature strip.
No other activity recorded.
24th October
Heating/Cooling install has started.
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| Heating/cooling in Family area |
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| Heating/cooling ducts servicing ground level |
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| Cooling duct in Kitchen area |
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| Cooling duct for the lounge room. Seems like the plumber might have made a mistake here. |
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| Potential problem for the plumber. (View from upper floor) The large cut out space is used for ducts to get to the lounge room. plumbing pipe is in the way! |
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| Another view |
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| Heating cooling ducts will run down this to the master ensuite |
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| Master Ensuite Heating/cooling. This is integrated into the front facade |
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| 24th Oct 12 The proposed duct opening marked in rooms |
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They've still got to construct the rest of the scaffolding, and wrap up the upper level. If they can do all of that by tomorrow, maybe the Hebel guys can come in on Friday and get a head start.
1st time PD falling behind schedule! Hopefully its not going to be a trend.
On a side note: I just bought our family a new surround sound system for our lounge room from digital cinemas! Im currently also thinking if we'll get a new TV for our lounge! 60inch Plasma Samsung 8000series or 60 inch LED Samsung 6000series?
Denon 2113 AV Receiver
Wharfedale DX-1
100m speaker cables
$1700 all up! I managed to get a deal with the guy selling them to me. I was even able to score a deal better than JB-HIFI can do for me.
Can't wait to give them a try tomorrow when I receive them!
