Rendered, but not quite speechless

April 26th, they've just come in and rendered the bedroom and portico and the plasterers are putting in the finishing touches - nice folks and doing a great job too.

Photo overload coming up ....

Here's the front, not yet painted or cleaned but looking pretty close to the end result

Some much better quality pics of the cabinets, laundry first (had to balance all the white tiles and washer etc :)

Now the bathroom..

Kitchen cupboards and island bench..still need the caesarstone tops to go on...

The ensuite....

Lounge looking into the theatre room with all those hobs and had to throw in the family/meals area in also :)

And finishing off with the tiger snake breeding grounds just one house around the corner from us :) - good for keeping the mice down :) :)

Locked and un-loaded

April 22nd, bricks pretty much all up and gyprock looks like it's completed.

Bad news is that it's all locked up now <sob>

Hopefully, the bricks will look a lot better when they're cleaned up and the render is applied on to the front of the house.

Kitchen laminate and cupboards all up - crappy pic thru the dirty window...

The ensuite, (lots of spare doors) slightly cleaner window to take the pic thru...

We got plastered!

April 16th, we've been plastered in a big way! Can't believe how fast these guys are. They only started a day ago and now look at it.

Although, the rumpus is still waiting on the sound insulation before plaster goes up in the next couple of days.

Sadly though, the smart wiring has not been installed before the walls have been installed and will have to be run thru the insulation in most of the areas, only the lounge wall has no insulation now - can't figure out why it would be done that way :\

Entry and family/meals area:

Newly bare rumpus/laundry wall awaiting new insulation - dude, where's my smart wiring :\

Finally, the bricks at the side and rear of the house - very quick...

Some more insulation!

April 15th, well it turns out that the sound insulation in the rumpus and lounge walls was installed in the wrong place (instead of the theatre walls) - I figured that was normal.

Luckily, when our site supervisor called and explained this we were then able to quickly get in the additional sound insulation for the rumpus walls at least - so washing machine noises will be reduced :) :)

Meanwhile, those walls will have gyprocking delayed slightly as they were about to do them today.

Lotsa thanks to Jarrod - very good guy and very easy to deal with.

Different insulation for heat and sound

First pic below is the external (heat) insulation on the lounge/garage wall

This next pic shows the rumpus/laundry wall on the left with the sound insulation and the wall on the right is the rumpus external wall

Bricks, gyprock and insulation!!

April 11th, wow, that was quick again!

Glad I at least cleaned up the frame and got the wood shavings and mud off and out of the enclosed spaces.

They delivered the bricks and gyprock today and put up a heap of insulation in most of the walls.

Although, I'm a little puzzled why the theatre walls have the regular insulation instead of the sound-proofing type like the rumpus and lounge walls.

Mounted, but not stuffed

April 9th, they've been busy.

The heating unit is in the ceiling space, the evaporative air conditioning unit is mounted on the roof alongside the solar panel for the hot water.

All the ducting has ben run for both the heating and cooling - only missing walls and a ceiling.

The SS has assured me that the minor items from the frame inspection will be corrected for the next inspection (pre-plaster) next week, so all flying along, even had some of the rubble cleaned up.

Better go and sweep the wood shavings and muddy bits off the frame before they get covered over by gyprock.

Wrapped!! and roofed

April 7th, what a headspin, roof tiles are up, frame is wrapped and the wiring for lights and power has been roughed in for the most part.

Bricks will probably be starting as I write this as the sand is sitting out the front.

Waiting on a response to the inspection items but this should be pretty straight-forward to correct and hopefully the plastering can commence on schedule in a few days.

The front door - funny, I though it was gonna be a different colour :) - oh yeah, maybe some paint to come yet!

A view from the kitchen into the family, meals and rumpus - very glad we put in the additional sliding doors, although the corner stacker door would have been nice but that's only an option on the 36.

A couple of views from the back

And finally, the roof tiles - Elebana style in Sambucca colour

Some Colour Selections

Not the complete set of colours, but the best I can do (and they look better in real life):              
                                                                                                                                                                 

Colour Selection          External                                                                                                              

Bricks                              Homestead Tan                 u/g                                  Austral                           

                       (backup    Blackwood                          u/g                                  Austral)                        

Mortar                            natural                                                                                                              

Roof tiles                        Elabana - Sambuca                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                                 

Gutters                            Monument                                                                                                      

Fascia                               Monument                                                                                                      

Downpipes                      Monument                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                  

Flashing                          Dune                                                                                                                 

Garage door                   Dune                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                  

Timber planking            Rich Walnut                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                                                                  

Windows                        Woodland Grey                                                                                               

Sliding doors                  Woodland Grey                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                 from the left - Dune, Woodland Grey, Monument                               

                                                                                                                                                                 

Front door                      PMAD04                   Rice paper glazing                   Dune - gloss                   

   door frame                                                                                                    Dune - gloss                   

                                                                                                                                                                 

Render          portico       Green Sea PG1.D5             u/g                                                                        

Render          bedroom    Flooded Gum PG2C3        u/g                                                                     

 

                                bugger, which one's on the porch and which is on the bedroom front part?            

                                                                                                                                                                 

Colour Selection          Internal                                                                                                               

Ceilings                           Lexicon 1/2 strength PCWF7                                                                           

Doors                              Lexicon 1/2 strength PCWF7                                   gloss                               

Window frames             Lexicon 1/2 strength PCWF7                                   gloss                               

Walls                              Mistral 1/4 strength P40B1Q                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                 

Home Theatre               Rainmaker P37C7              u/g               (to walls & ceiling)                             

                       forgot to get a sample of the Mistral for the walls - oh well, not much different to the lexicon  

                                                                                                                                                                  

Kitchen bench                Night Sky 6100                   u/g                                                                         

   cabinet doors             Stringybark                                                                                                       

   perspex doors            Lucite Pearlescent Pearl                                                                                   

   glass splashback        Guild Grey                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                  

                          Nougat on the left, Night Sky on the right - but it has more speckles in the "flesh"           

                                                                                                                                                                 

Ensuite bench                Nougat 6600                                                                                                    

   cabinet doors             Fudge Stream                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                  

Bathroom bench           Fudge Stream                                                                                                    

   cabinet doors             Fudge Stream                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                                                  

Powder rm bench          Nougat 6600                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                  

Laundry benchtop        Ebony Macassar                                                                                                

   cabinet doors             Ebony Macassar                                                                                                

                                          from the left - Stringybark, Fudge Stream, Ebony Macassar                          

                                                                                                                                                                 

Floors & Tiles                                                                                                                                           

Carpet                             790 Warm Shadow   (dark grey)                                                                     

                                                                                                                                                                  

Floor tiles                       48558 Marfil White Gloss 400x400                                                                 

   grout                            Alabaster 282                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                  

Bath etc floor tiles       48589 Savvy Charcoal 400x400                                                                         

   grout                            Magellan Grey 273                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                                  

Ensuite wall tile             48592 Sequenza White Structured 300x400 vert                                           

   grout                            White 200                                                                                                         

Feature tile                    08043 Mosaic Glass Mirror Grey                                                                     

   grout                            White 200                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                  

Bathroom wall tile       03222 Classic Carrara White 200x400 vert                                                       

   grout                            White 200                                                                                                         

Feature tile                    08038 Mosaic Glass Esmeralda Lime                                                               

   grout                            White 200                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                  

Powder room wall        08038 Mosaic Glass Esmeralda Lime                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                  

Laundry wall tile           03222 Classic Carrara White 200x400 vert                                                      

   grout                            White 200