Gables / Verandah / Timeframe

Popped by the house on Monday afternoon and found that some more materials have been delivered inside

At least now the carpenter won't need to wait for anything, we just need to wait for the carpenter.

Also the brickie appears to have realized his mistake.

He's taken the capping layer off and has added two courses of bricks to the wall and the posts.  Whilst this is still better I think it may need another one or two courses to actually give the little wall any useful height above the future slab in the verandah.

To respond to Anonymous (my volunteer construction advisors) comment I think that given the drawings indicate dashed lines for the vents I assume that these are for behind the verandah wall and are for the wall beneath the lounge room.  Also there would not be too much point having a vent in a wall above finished floor level (as indicated in the drawing) as no real ventilation will occur.  The brickie has done the right thing on the wall under the lounge room and has placed the vents at the perfect height.  We will therefore ensure that when we add a concrete slab into the verandah area we don't fill in these vents to prevent the ventilation in this area.  Ideally the floor will be aligned with the base of these vents, which will give about two 150mm steps down from our front door, so we may need to add one small step at the front door.

To respond to Janine, who is also building a Jamieson with Romeo homes, our contract timeframe is 11 months from April this year.  That gives us a contractual finishing time of early March next year.  Her indoors caught up with our plasterer a few weeks back and he gave us a good dose of reality.  He thinks we would be dreaming to think that we would be in before Christmas, which is becoming more obvious now.  The main reason is that we are building in an established suburb well away from the other developments.  In the new estates the builders have the luxury of multiple jobs in close proximity so that they can easily get from one job to the next.  However where we are no one could easily just pop by to finish off something.  Whilst this is a little frustrating and the timeline is almost double what were told by our sales person we have now accepted the fact and look forward to packing over the christmas break.