Lots of activity!

Quite a lot of activity over the past few days - work was happening on Friday and Saturday. We have the gutter and fascia installed on the garage, the remaining brickwork completed, the fix all but complete, the painting started, cabinets all in, shelves all in, all doors hung - and more!

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It seems there was a bit of a screw up with the height of the vanities in the ensuite. The cabinet should be another 118 mm from the floor, which would bring the bowls up to the correct height under the taps. The pictures below show you what I mean.

These cupboards should be over 300mm from the floor. Originally, they were to be "floating" (mounted on the wall), however PD changed the specifications as they don't do the floating ones any longer.

If you look closely, you can see the mark on the wall where the top of the bowl should be (yep, I went in with the tape measure!).

The main bathroom vanity

Fascia and gutter for garage delivered last Friday....

....and installed the next day!

Our Blanco sink. Not fitted as Caeserstone bench tops will be going in later.

Enamel paint on the window frames

and again

our kitchen taking shape

Laminate shelf in the pantry

Dishwasher space

cupboards next to the fridge space

laundry cupboards and basin

Glo-tub in white

Downstairs Powder room

Plaster inspection revealed many issues - here are a few of the marks.

Master Bedroom doors are hung

Brick sills completed in the al fresco

Today (Sunday) we visited Fowles to finalise the colours for the laminate floor boards and carpet. We borrowed a door from the kitchen and took it with us to determine what would look best. For all you colour freaks out there, we decided on the Cherry Spice Timber Laminate, and the Godfrey-Hirst Milano Caramel Kiss.

Current catalog (in case you are interested) is here!

100 NOT OUT!

Friday was another busy day on site, with the cabinets being delivered, the trusses for the garage roof going on, the balcony framed in, the cornice going in upstairs and the fixing being almost completed downstairs.

Garage Trusses are up!

Latest view from the front

Our garage is taking shape. If you look closely, you can see where the ducted vac will go.

Cabinets

Architraves on downstairs windows

Cabinets again - more of them were placed in other rooms!

GLook closely - skirts, architraves, and a door!

Some upstairs cornice

The bath went in a while back

Watch that step...

Tiled floor will eventually go in.

Yesterday (Saturday) we visited Fowles showroom in South Melbourne to look at carpet and laminate timber floorings (thanks Tony!). Nothing is ever as easy as it seems.

We found a nice carpet (Godfrey-Hirst brand) which we like, and Gavin at Fowles priced and sized our requirements for us. Initially the plan was to carpet throughout upstairs, but due to the cost we may put some laminate timber in the family room at the top of the stairs.

The laminate timber floorboards available from Fowles is by Armstrong, and we will be laying it ourselves. Price is around $20 per square metre - less than half the cost of carpet just for the supply.

Problem is, that we have a light cherry colour on the kitchen cabinets - and we are having difficulty finding a colour for the floor which will suit. We are not done yet - we plan to go back to Fowles and have another look with a bigger colour sample Similar laminates at other places which we saw were around $30 per square metre.

100 NOT OUT! - Why the title of this entry? Easy, this is our 100th blog entry. Wow. We talk too much.

Some stats for you (pretend you care...):

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Thanks to everyone who has hopped on board our adventure with us, and for all the comments and feedback!

Locked!

Yesterday was a big day at the house. We decided we needed to put some sound batts in some of the internal walls, and that the place needed a clean before the plaster was delivered, so in we went.

Lockup carpentry for the house was underway when we arrived - that means that doors were hung and fixed, extra noggings were installed and studs shaved or packed as required in preparation for plaster.



The sound batts we bought were Bradford Soundscreen. We bought the R2.0 (75mm thick) bags - each bag has 6 batts and covers 3.5 square metres. Unfortunately, we bought the 450 mm wide batts instead of the 600mm wide, which creates extra work for us.

The picture below shows the first wall completed. We changed to fishing line after struggling with the yellow nylon for this wall.

Back to the house later today to try and get more insulation in!