Brick cleaning is finished

The bricks are completely cleaned now and they look amazing!  The brick layer did an outstanding job, we love them!  

Not much else has been done, we are waiting for the ducted vacuuming to be moved still, i suppose they are working on other sites now, shows they should make contact with you before they decide the best place to put things.  Some of the insulation is in by the looks of it and we have a nice water feature around 2 sides of the house :) 

Can't wait to see what gets done this week and hope the rain stays away.

More pics

I love my bricks!!!!

2/3 of the bricks have been cleaned, and I looooovvvvvveeee them!!!! They look so nice and the woodland grey windows match so well.  Once the garage door goes on it should look awesome. 

A couple of pics although it was about 5.15 so it's a little dark

Electrical rough in walk thru

This morning at 7.30am cold and raining we met with our SS to check the electrical's were put in the right spots. 

First problem was the ducted vaccum, guess where they put the motor? Yep you guessed it, in the bloody workshop!!!!!!!!!!  I just can't believe it, this workshop has a magnet on it. They also put one of the points in the main entry so I have asked them to be moved as there is nothing in the main entry except a light switch.  Anyway that was the only problem in the whole house so that's pretty good I think.

One piece of advice is when you do your electrical appointment make sure everything and I mean everything is placed in the right position on the plan, don't believe them when they say " we will just put it here and you can move it later if its not in the right position" or " we will just place it in the middle of the room and the contractors will contact you first" cause they don't.  This is what has happened with the DV we only had the motor placed in the garage (on the plan it was in the middle of the room) and none of the outlets where on the plan so they just put them where they thought was best. 

The insulation is due tomorrow and the gyprock is due to be delivered but it needs to stop pouring with rain first so they can deliver it. Our SS assured us we will be at lockup in 2 weeks, that's great news. 

Our bricks weren't cleaned due to the crap weather, the brick cleaner came while we were there and said he will be back on Thursday and because the bricks are dry pressed or something it will take a day and half to do.  That's ok really it's not holding us up. 

The air conditioning people contacted us today for us to do a rough guide of where we are putting lights & downlights so they know where to put the outlets for the air. We are getting 4 zones with 10 outlets, we have 9 chosen we just need to work out where we put the 10th one. I will do the plan tomorrow and send it to them 

The land developer puts in the alarm in our house, but we haven't heard a whisper since we met with him a few weeks ago, I told our SS he isn't to delay our progress he will just have to do it after the gyprock if need be, that will be his dilemma not ours. We also asked for a quote on an intercom and other things but haven't received that either, funny how people run a business isn't it, no service and no communication!! 

 

So that's it, no pics as there was only wet clay and puddles, but we are happy how everything is progressing. 

Great start to the week!

My daughter drove me to the house this afternoon, she is on her "L's" and she didn't get to come on the weekend.

We were surprised with workmen still working at 4pm!  They were putting up the eaves and we got the wooden poles out the front and for the side facade (wooden poles is the technical term).  The plumbers were there as well and had just finished off putting up the gas boosted solar panels, they are huge, most houses have 2 but we have 3 as they aren't in the ideal spot, we are going to surround them with solar panels for electricity then the roof will look awesome, well to us it will.  

And the bricks are finished yayyyyyy, all they need to do is clean them now.  So for a Monday I think we have done very well. Good on you SS, keep up the good work, we are very happy - so far! We will go on Saturday on our way to Berry, we are going to look at a dining table which could turn into a very or berry expensive day :). 

Corner facade - looking good although I wish the little slab was a bit bigger 

The front pole 

Gas boosted solar panels- not the best shot 

Looking good

The bricks are just about done, all there is to do are the row of bricks under the windows and the stacker doors.  They have cleaned up the site as well, there was a huge mess but now it looks nice and neat.   The rain has put us a couple of days behind I think, the gas boosted solar panels were supposed to be done and the eaves but hopefully that will be next week now.  I have been going to look once during the week and then we all go and look on a Saturday.  I was going every day but was getting disappointed if something wasn't done.  It's much better this way. So Friday was Day 40 , still a while to go yet! 

Here are some pics

Back of house

Front

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Today we had some good news from our SS, after some discussions with the Construction Manager they have decided the workshop wall shouldn't of been designed as a double brick wall and are going to gyprock it and put architraves around the window and make it all pretty. I can't tell you what a relief this is and I was very grateful for the feedback from our SS today, now we can all have a good weekend and not have to worry.

AND I don't want to have to talk about the "workshop" aka "Brewery" again!!!!!!!!!!!  Even the security man who is putting in our alarm system started off our meeting yesterday saying you must have a sensor in the workshop cause it will have important boy stuff in there, I could of punched him in the head ha ha.  Men don't seem to see the big house attached to the bloody workshop :) 

So now we have no worries as the bricks are half done as of Thursday and it all seems to be going well.  The gas boosted solar panels go up next week and the bricks should be finished and they are hoping the eaves will be put up, fingers crossed x