Soundscreen and Electrical Review

Well it was a long day today.

Our aim was to start early as we weren't too sure how long it would take us to put in the Sound Insulation in the boys rooms.  So we went via Bunnings to pick up some extra supplies including some little picks for the boys (I have started them on digging our my cellar, hopefully in about a year I will have some interesting updates on this.)

Installing the insulation was no the easiest of tasks and the instruction your get are pretty useless.  I'll develop a more detailed howto on this later so that people can get a good idea of what can go right and wrong, because I think we experienced everything in the long day that was installing.

Here's some pictures of the finished product. This is the youngest's wardrobe between his room and the main living room.

This is wall between the yougest's room and the bathroom

This was the hardest wall between the youngest's room and our ensuite.  On the right is the back of our shower that a whole lot of different sized gaps with lots of pipework, which all make it difficult.

This is ensuite shower outlet, they will put a bit of tile in the middle of this and tile around the rest of it. I think this will look really nice, just so long as it actually drains.

The electricians don't really seem to be able to understand the necessity of structural aspects of the frame.  Here they have cut right through a brace to put the outlet for our TV.  They had the great idea of mounting an outlet high so that it could be hidden behind the TV, however these TV's are so huge that I think they could have moved the bracket a little bit to avoid the bracing.  This is going in an email....

This is the return air in the living room which I knew would cause a problem with the framing because they needed to cut out the lower bit of the stud, which they have now done.  Unfortunately this has now left a load bearing stud hanging from a truss not holding up a truss...... 

Electricians and Climate Control

Electricians are in again today and Climate Control people are there too.  I drove past last night and could only look through windows to see wires all through our bedroom and lots of other places.  There were wall plates around and also the ducted vacuuming seemed to have been put in as I could see a conduit with wires inside it in the garage.

We'll get access to the house on Sunday to put our bats in so I'll have a good go through the house to see if electrical is all good.  I might also put some more noggins in some places to mount things.

Here's what our electrical plan looks like:

Electricians on site

Her indoors went past this morning and the electricians are there, hopefully roughing in.  Things are moving again whoohoo.

Email from Construction Manager and The Door was Open

I thought that I had better make sure that everything was done in the house before the plaster was put in so I sent our contact at Romeo Homes an email.  I almost immediately got an email back from her boss saying that everything was done.  Another thing I asked for was something from the building surveyor stating that the frame had been reviewed.  This seemed a little harder, however they will look into it for me.

Also on the way home tonight we stopped by to see if anything had been done, luckily one of the doors was open so we had to go in.

We have a water supply for our evaporative cooling and our smell pipe (I think this is the technical term) has been vented to outside.

I don't think I noticed this timber before.  This extra stuff appears to be for the bulkheads and drop panels in the front entrance.

SS called today

I got a call out of the blue today from our Site Supervisor. He has let us know that they will be doing the plastering next week. Therefore we'll need to spend the weekend putting our sound proof insulation. This means that over the next few days they'll have to fill in the gables do the electricals and the outer wall insulation.


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Been a while

Sorry about the lack of updates.   Unfortunately not too much has been happening so I haven't had too much to say.  I went around on Sunday and saw the following:

They've added a temporary front doo, so we are now unfortunately locked out, I still don't count this as lock up though.  Above the bedroom window is a big opening, if we get strong wind a rain plenty of water will come in, so I want those filled in before anything is done inside.

This is a pile of al of the stuff that has been swept out from inside.  It's a good place to dump it as I don't like the way the water is building up here.  If you look to the bottom left of the photo that is my really good engineering fix on the drainage.  That is a flexible down pipe that I have weighed down with some bricks to try to help get the water level down.  It appears to be working as the water is about a brick and half lower than usual.

Here is the other temporary door that is stopping us from getting in.  There is also a fresh pile of cement mortar which I think has been used to bed in the bath and boys shower base.

The blueboard to the left is to fill in the gaps I mentioned aboce and the bits of timber neatly placed under the wrap must be for all of the nice features at the front.

It's still a bit of a mud puddle on the side but I think my drainage is starting to work.

There are still a few gaps above the wrap around the house that need to be fixed up before the bricking is done.

We now have to look at everything through windows.  Here you can see the sliding door cavity in the laundry.

Here's some of the laundry plumbing

This is looking from the Alfresco window toward the WIP on the left and the kitchen bench pipework.

Bath / Shower Base and Shingles

Her indoors went past the block on Tuesday and noticed that the bath had been delivered along with a shower base for the boys bathroom and some timber to fill in our gables including some shingle looking things.

We went past again last night and I had wonder through the house with a torch.  I thought that the bath and the shower base were supposed to be in the lounge room and when I didn't see them there I immediately thought that they had been stolen (I am looking on homeone too much see threads on this sort of thing).  Looking further through the house maybe the builder has read the same thing as the bath is now secured in the boys toilet and the shower base has a plank across it nailed into the bathroom.