Tiles delivered

Unfortunately not too much action happened yesterday. However when we went in this is what we noticed.


Our tiles have been delivered.

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Carpentry Finished

Popped by again last night and this is the first thing I saw:

The deck for our alfresco is finished and it has all been boxed in.

This is the view from inside.  It all looks nice already and it still needs to be sanded and stained.

This is the side of the deck.  There is currently over a 1m fall so we will either need to fill up against it or put in some balustrading. We are still debating what to do about this.  Apparently it may stall our certificate of occupancy, but we will worry about that later.

This is a very blurry photo of the little door that they have to access below the deck, now we have even more storage.

Speaking of storage.  They have now put the man hole into the garage,  this will be great for future storage too.

Here are some nice stairs up to the WIP door.

They were also finishing the painting.  I think all of the skirts and doors have now been painted and they only have to finish off a few more things.  Hopefully this will all be finished by Thursday.

The plumbers have been back and done some more work on the down pipes.  All of the downpipes are now in the right place but they still need to connect a few at ground level.

Painting Ongoing

Well the painters seem to have been at the house almost all day yesterday and things are starting to look great.

The fretwork has been repainted manor red, which I think looks great now and offers the contrast that we wanted.  The bases of the columns on the front verandah have now been painted.

The fine detail around the door has been touched up and looks to be great quality.

The internal doors all seem to have been painted.  I wonder if they did the tops and bottoms?  I will have to check if I get a chance to go in tonight.

It looks like they covered up the benchtop OK in the kitchen.  I think the colours are looking good.  Above the picture rail is Fair Bianca Half and below is Grand Piano.

We may really have the painters finishing by Monday...

Two Ceilings and a Shower Base

Popped by last night and the ceiling in the garage and the alfresco have been painted.

Garage Ceiling looks great.  This may be two coats.

I think this alfresco ceiling may need another coat.  Also note that there are no cornices yet.

This is the ensuite shower base.  It looks half finished.  I hope the grout doesn't go off and then cause a crack to develop later between the new and old grout.  At least we have a photo now so if something does go wrong we can figure out why later.

Painters to finish Monday

Popped by this morning to see the painters on site.


I checked in with them to see how things were going. They still haven't received confirmation from Romeo that we wanted the fretwork changed to manor red.

They were still cleaning up and taping things. Supposedly they will be spraying the ceiling tomorrow.

I asked about the minor "please fix" areas in the plaster that the electrician left and apparently the painter will fix them himself. If these were too bad he would let Romeo know and charge for them. The amount of repair required at our place meant that it wasn't worth the hassle and he would fix it anyway. He said that our place was in very good condition compared to other places.

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Verandah Downpipes Fixed

Stopped by this morning and noticed some guttering in the bin. I borrowed this for the future cubby development.

The guttering at the front has been replaced with one with a hole at the right end.


It looks like they even fixed the fall of the new guttering. Have a look at the paint line in the next photo.



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"They're killing it in."

Apparently that is what the glaziers were doing to our stained glass windows today.  Unfortunately when our youngest fires a water pistol he says "kill, kill, kill."  Hence "killing it in" is what glaziers would have been doing with the nail gun around the perimeter of the new windows.

Here is the homicidal glazier.

The plumbers don't seem to have finished putting up all of the down pipes, which is a good thing.  Because I hope that they don't leave this one as it is:

One of these downpipes should be on the left of the verandah.  Hopefully this is just a temporary fix.  I find it strange that there was a pipe coming out of the ground to the left and now there is nothing going into it.