15.8.10

Lockup official!!

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The house is officially at lockup!


Lots of little things finished around the house this week.

The kitchen is taking shape with the cabinets finished on the wall, the long island bench is sitting ready to be finished.

The Alfresco poles have been all finished now. We will be building a retaining wall along the footpath and getting fill to give us more space around the alfresco area. We will then build a fence behind it to give us privacy.

Below is our 'unpainted' double doors for our bedroom which are also in the theatre room. All our other doors in the house are single white panelled doors. Nice!

We are still yet to hear back from Porter Davis about the mortar colour mistake, hopefully this week something will be remedied!

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24.7.10

Bricks 'n' wiring

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Today not much appeared to have changed from the first look at our home. But on closer inspection we noticed the brick infill to the top of the garage had been finished. This is an upgrade from the normal plaster board that is above the garage door.








The side and back of the house right around to the other side's alfresco area has been 3/4 of the way bricked as well.

We also found that as well as the electricals being finished, they had also done all the Telstra Smart-wiring. The cables had been put into
every room which we had chosen when we did all the electrical plans.

This hooks up all our phone, internet, television reception and Foxtel into the one system through the same cables.

So it's all coming along and getting closer to lockup stage.

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14.7.10

'Wrapped in plastic'

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We went for our mid-week look at our house today. As we didn't get out there till late I was fast losing light; so just took photos hoping my lovely Canon SLR would pick up enough light.


When we got out there we found one lonely carpenter working on the inside of the front door with a flood light. So didn't feel like we could go through the house like usual, so we kind of said hi and snuck into the garage to have a closer look at the start of the bricking.

They wrapped the house a couple of days ago with insulation, and today they had started bricking the garage. As it was so dark and the mortar was still wet, it was hard to see how the bricks looked in colour, so by Saturday we should be able to have a good look at the colours and hopefully get some good photos.

We also found they have installed our beautiful bi-fold doors that lead to the Alfresco, they looked really good. Its all getting closer to lockup stage!

I imagine by Saturday there will be more bricks up, so stay posted!

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