Building Our New Home

A step closer

Sparkies were on site today moving a couple of lights and (hopefully) fixing a power point. Plasterers are due to come back for some repairs tomorrow.

Balcony is ready to be tiled

Retaining wall posts

Labels: balcony, PCI, retaining wall

Sheets, slab, shed and scumbags.

I like to try and make the title of the blog entries interesting, but sometimes they do require an explanation!

Sheets - Cement sheets went up today on the garage and under the balcony. Looking good! Photos below.

Slab - I swept the concrete slab out the back today, as the shed is going up over the next few days. Photo below.

Shed - As above!

Scumbags - the local scumbag kids have been at it again. I've mentioned them before, and we've had a constant battle with these morons to try and stay on top of the mess they make. Over the past month they have broken some roofing tiles, thrown bricks around, pulled silt pits out, and checked as much crap on the slab as they can find. One of our soon the be new neighbours (who works with Bernadette) happened to be out the front of his home last Saturday and caught the little shits red handed. One of them was tring to force his way in, and two others were generally making as much mess as they could. He went to town on them, and tells us that they seemed to be scared as hell. Hopefully they stay away.

Anyhow, onto more interesting things! The balcony floor and ceiling has been done - the tiler should be back soon to put the tiles on the balcony. The painter is due to come back soon to finish painting. The garage door is in a warehouse in Geelong waiting for the garage ceiling to be painted. The gas flame heater will be going in soon, and there will be a site clean which will improve the place no end.

Met with the Site Supervisor on Saturday, and the render colour that we are seeing is an undercoat - top coat should go on this week. Enough talk - time for pics!

Freshly swept slab. Expect to see a shed on it soon!

Balcony floor

Not vandalism - this is where the heater is going.

Neat job in the garage

Plastering done in the garage - now waiting for paint.

Same goes for the front of the garage - waiting for paint.

Under the balcony - We were amazed that a solid ceiling wasn't standard!

Last Saturday we also went shopping for a few lights to replace the junction boxes which are installed in various place around the house.

Stair lights are 240V LED units which give off a pale blue colour, and should look pretty good: