There's no such thing as window shopping!!!! oh and roof piccies :)

Me thinks the bricking will be starting this week as a nice big sand mountain appeared on our garage slab that wasn't there on friday...i like it when the little building fairies appear and leave little surprises :)

Took my bro and his GF for a looksee of our house today.  They built with PD over a year ago so it's really good to get feedback on things on what to look out for and also things to consider after handover.

It was also a good opportunity to have a look to see if there are any tiles that have been laid that have cracks...lucky i did, i noticed one in particular in bedroom two that had a crack through, so i'll have to bring that up with SS (but how do we do this when technically we aren't supposed to be onsite!?!) lol..

Oh, i nearly forgot about my bargain of a century!! Had to drop R off at footy on Saturday (even though he can't play because of his achilles, he is determined to attend each game to still help out the team..*mel: grumble grumble grumble*) so Mumma MelnRob (MMnR) and I decided we'll go while away a few hours in the warmth of the shops, I intended to have a look at some light fittings and window shop for my wanna-haves..

P*ush furniture is having a big sale on this month so thought i would check it out as have been eyeing off one of the lounge styles there for a while.  Loved that they had 20% off the range! Woot! MMnR and i took a stroll around the store and stumbled across the clearance section.  There was a lovely taupe coloured leather modular couch that we sat down on and i thought it would be good to go up in the rumpus room.  Mum was equally rapt in the comfort level.  Was expecting it to be discounted as it was in the clearance section but was surprised to see $799 on the pricetag (Down from $2499)....I say to MMnR there has to be something majorly wrong with it or it is a typo, so we search around on it and the only thing we could find was a hole in the leather at the back of the cushion (totally invisible to the eye if you are looking at it). Easy fix says I, the Tonya Toddman protege. Even though yesterday was meant to be a window shop day, this was too good a deal to pass up.  I pick up R with the intention of saying lets buy this couch for the rumpus and we walk out having put a deposit on the theatre room couch and living room couch and getting the clearance couch for the rumpus for a bargain basement price of less than $200!!!!! NOICE!!!

Here's the piccies of progress for the week so far.

Rumpus room. Bargain couch is definitely going to fit in here!

Landing and void area (currently covered by orange OHS boards) from rumpus room

Dining room to living room/kitchen view

Our Master bedroom! Poor hopalong hasn't even seen upstairs yet as he's still in the cast, so he has only these photo's to go on! lol

  

Baby got HAT!!!

Just got off the phone to Roberto. Our SS called an hour ago to say that the roof tiles are all put on! YAY! Our baby has a hat! Wow is all i can say to the tradies! Roof tiles delivered late Tuesday arvo. (I drove by the house just as the truck was leaving) And given the weather Melbourne has had the last couple of days (think rain, rain and more rain) I would've thought the roof tilers wouldn't be able to work. Is 1 and a half days the norm??? **insert happy dance here**

 

Now to get to the site for some piccies to give piccy hogs their fix..tee hee!

Rooftiles are squatting on our land....

Well speak of the devil....

Finished work early so thought i'd swing around the block and as i pulled up, a big truck was pulling out! Our roof tiles are here!! YAY!!!

The weather forecast doesn't look too good though....fingers crossed we'll have the roof tiles installed by the end of the week...does anyone know a NON rain dance???

Tumbleweeds...

No news since last post kids. Went around after work on friday and again on saturday and no roof tiles :(...not stressed as we aren't behind schedule but it's a wierd feeling to not have the surprise of progress when you come around the corner into our street.  And my friend down the road has been bitterly disappointed she can't perve on the tradies...lol...the site has been desolate! Will give SS a call later this week to see what the plan of attack is....and then give dear friend the heads up so she can check out the talent (if there is any)! lol...

Til next time bloggers...

Inspections and Invoices....

Inspection with SS went well this morning...really rapt with the workmanship that our chippie did.  SS said he received positive feedback from a lot of other SS's with regards to the subby who did our frame (our SS has just started with PD) and he can see why.  After we finished walking through with SS the Inspector arrived, so we'll just keep our eye out for the report.


The guttering is on! Looks great! Wasn't so sure about the light colour fascia and gutter but i think it will work.  Our roof tiles are the sambucca elabana tiles so i think it will help to lighten up.

SS advised roof tiles were to be delivered today and they should have it all done in three days.  Hopefully Melbourne's weather holds out! He reckons we'll be wrapped and bricked up by the end of June/start of July. Then we'll be nearly halfway there!

And so that's the next stage done...another invoice received...

Gutters on (and the guys were onsite sorting through the rubbish)

from front door

from back wall

Braces for our baby

So i have been meaning to blog this week but work has been hectic...I know right? how dare work come in the way of the house!??! lol

We had confirmation on Tuesday 17th that the framestage was complete.  R and I wanted to walk through with our SS and the building inspector today but the meeting was cancelled last night as SS had meetings whole day (got days confused !?) so rescheduled for tomorrow (Thursday).  I would have thought that the SS would need to walk through with the independent inspector. Does anyone know the process?

Anyhoo...i took a quick peak at the site yesterday after work.  Really impressed that the Carpenters left the site in a clean state. House was swept out, all the debris etc was put in the cage and the offcuts were piled neatly to the side.  Have to send an appreciative email to CSC to pass on to those guys.  Anyone who takes pride in their work environment, takes pride in their workmanship i reckon.

The light was dwindling and i only had my camera phone but i'll update with better ones tomorrow. Apparently the guttering got put on today (the final pieces to our baby's braces :)), so that would mean that the roof tiles are not too far off! Yippee!

from back corner of living room



Braces on our baby

from this angle the house looks like it has a crown! :)



from kitchen to living room and theatre. windows look fabbo!

Frame stage nearly complete!

Well we are on schedule for framestage to be completed on the 16th May it seems.  Despite the mean weather Melbourne has endured this week, our guys were real troupers and delivered as promised!

Went around yesterday (15/05/11)  and the trusses were all up! And when we passed later in the arvo the windows were being put in.

Very pleased with the speed and workmanship so far.

It's amazing all the little things you notice you missed when you see your ideas come to life! You think you go over the list and double check things you want to add a thousand times but there is always something that sneaks through...window locks! haha...now have to budget for an upgrade for locks afterwards as the windows don't have locks on them.  For some reason thought they were all standard mechanism.  Oh well, nothing a length of dowel stick can't fix. :)



Facade pic 15/05/11



It's all trussed up :)

Facade with windows in!

Framework pretty much complete! Woot!

Side of house

Back of house view