Bricks almost done (to floor)

Sorry I haven't posted much this week but it's been a great week for progress.

Tuesday's Progress

Garage Expansion Joint gets taller (strangely there were no other expansion joints like this?)

 

This is what the raking should look like.

This is our alfresco. This will be about as high as it will be off the ground.

This is where our sewerage will leave the building (hopefully they haven't put any holes in this pipe like they did with the down pipes).

This is the view into our rumpus room.  It was this photo that her indoors took that made me think that something was missing.  Compare this photo (wall on left is back elevation) to the following elevation drawing.

I couldn't see any sub-floor access.  I also could not see any sub-floor vents.  So Tuesday night another email to our Construction Manager.  Next morning though, her indoors went past early and apparently they had forgotten about it and will sort it out.  Also the vents go in the next course up.

More Bricking Photos

I bought myself a pair of gum boots and traipsed around the house today.  Here are some photos of bricks so far.

This is looking from the rumpus room, across the alfresco towards the front of the house.

Side of the garage.  They have used the wrong mortar finish, this looks like ironed rather than the raked that we specified, see the image below.  I sent an email to Romeo today and I will follow up with a phone call.

This is about where our kitchen window will go.

 This is looking along the side of our garage.  They look reasonably straight.

This is where our garage door will go.  I'm not sure why there is a footing here and why there is a step in the footing, given that there will be a slab in there and eventually a driveway.

I think I would have been standing in our pantry taking this photo.  Notice how they haven't engaged these piers yet.

Bit of a wonky brick here.

The brickies cut holes in our down pipes to drain the footings.  I hope that these holes can be fixed.  I've taken photos of them all so that I can ensure that they can get repaired.

Friday Week Then - We have brickies and colours

We had a colour consultant around this morning and we are getting closer on splashback, tiles, and we now even seem to be getting close to paint colours.
Our ceiling, our cornices, the wall above the picture rail and the picture rail are likely to be fair bianca.  This will also be used on all of timbers and in our wet areas.

For below the picture rail and in the bedrooms we will use grand piano

We've still got a little bit of work to do on tiles, splashback etc, however we are on our way.

So after the colour consultancy her indoors dropped me off at the station so that I could still pop my head into the office.  I thought that maybe a trip past the block might be worthwhile and oh boy was it.  After weeks of its too wet and boggy and its raining we saw this:

OK bricks tomorrow then...

Her indoors followed up with our CSM on Friday and apparently the brickies are booked for Monday.

She has also been playing with our tiles, never one to make a decision we now have three 300x600 tiles sitting in family room (they all look very similar) and I immediately chose the one that apparently is exactly the same as our previous selection.

We also went to the new Jamieson display home out in Pakenham, this is classed as a Jamieson Bungalow.  The facade is a lot different.

I borrowed this image from Janine Kimberly who is building a similar house.

This is what the Jamieson used to look like:

And this is what ours should look like:

Her indoors fell in love with our floorboards again but she was a little worried about how small our new living room will be, supposedly doubling the size of our living room won't be enough for her.  It is amazing how the change in furniture between the two displays changes the perspective on things.

The new display also has it's alfresco very close to the neighbouring property and is down the hill from the neighbour giving the alfresco a very closed in feel.  Luckily ours won't be as bad as this one.

Bricks this week

Her indoors phoned Romeo yesterday and they got back to us today. Supposedly brickies are booked for this week. We'll just have to wait and see.

Rain Rain Everywhere

Whilst we Melbournians should not complain about rain I can't help being a little annoyed at how wet our site is.  I drove past this morning and our footings look like a river.  Also everywhere there were holes dug for the stormwater pipes there are now big puddles.

Sorry about the lack of update, however there has been nothing to report.  I am currently in the process of trying to draw our kitchen in a new program called blender. This allows for cool rendering and animation.  This will really need to be improved upon before her indoors can sign on the bottom line for the splashback selection.

I will try to improve my skills so that I can post a view of the kitchen.

Brickies sand and more bricks arrive

Apparently yesterday some sand and more bricks arrived. No one on site this morning though.




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