Building Our First Home: Colorbond

9.7.10

Our Colorbond roof

Posted by Cath Swan | Labels: Colorbond, Roof, Vent

Went to look at the the house this arvo to see if the roof was finished, and yes, a glorious sight grabbed us!

Just like the Colorbond roof advert, we felt the same way today. Both of us standing there gazing at our beautiful new roof. It really was an incredible sight!

As I stated in my last post, I love the colour and seeing it completely finished just confirmed that

we have made the perfect choice in colour.

The other thing I had forgotten about, was that we added a roof vent on top. My husband calls it a whirly bird, I'm sure it has a proper name, but its that fan thing that sits on your roof and draws air into the ceiling to keep the house cool.

Now that we have a roof, the floor in the house can start to dry out and all the mud that's collected will hopefully be easy to get rid of when they come to do the tiles and carpet.

Looking good!!

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1.7.10

Gutters 'n' bricks

Posted by Cath Swan | Labels: Bricks, Builders, Colorbond, Gutters

As it has been freezing cold and raining most of the week, we wondered whether the builders would darken the door of our home this week. But when we went out today we found the boys on the roof putting up all our nice Colorbond Ironstone gutters.

Most of the gutters were finished when we went out there, so I think it would have been finished by the end of today.

And we were also pleasantly greeted with the delivery of all our bricks! As they were sitting up on our block, the first view we had caused us to panic as they were NOT the bricks we had chosen. We then realised we were looking at the side of the bricks that will be unseen.

Our real brick colour is as the pictures below!