Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Our House Build - Gyprock Started



Lucky timing tonight! Simon was on-site when I passed by after work. This meant I got to have a walk through to see how much had been done!



More bricks done, this is around the back of the house, the bathroom window, laundry door and kitchen splashback window.



You can see the door to the pantry in the distance through the sliding door.



Then the walk through,  this is the walk-in robe looking toward the front of the house.



Looking from the walk in-robe through the ensuite into the seperate WC.



Master bedroom sitting nook / tv wall mount location (cables not pulled through yet)



Entryway looking into the great room (apparently that's what you call a living/dining/kitchen combined). The cutout for the slatting hasn't been done yet.



Theatre room - speaker cables pulled through, I'm very happy about this!



Theatre room "screen" wall with cables pulled through.



Theatre room with cavity sliders covered, gives a better idea of the opening now.



Laundry initially looked darker than I expected however this is an east facing window in the last hour of the day, and almost half of the glass was covered with the plasterboard!



Powder room.



Hall looking from powder room door towards the kids bedrooms, bathroom, linen closet and the garage/airlock.



One of the kids bedrooms.



One of the kids' built in robes.



The living room hasn't been done yet, there were a few spare insulation batts - I got Simon to put them in the wall between the living room and our walk in robe as I'd forgotten to specify acoustic batts there (and these will do much better than just having air!!)



Kids bathroom not done yet either (nor is ensuite) as it needs blue-board. You can see the bath hob built out and how much light the window lets in even though it's afternoon and this is an east facing window.

Monday, September 26, 2016

Our House Build - More Bricks



Some progress made at the front and the rear today by the brickies.



Plaster not started yet but I believe due to start tomorrow.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Our House Build - Bricks and Insulation



Our bricks have been started!



They've started the south side - the garage or "low side" of the house.



The insulation has also been done, as well as noggings for wall mounting the TV - below is the master bedroom "nook"



And speaker noggings - this is the wall of the theatre that the screen will be projected onto.



Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Our House Build - Progress Update



Lots has happened over the last few days!

The plumbing rough-in is done, the roof sheeting has finished being screwed down properly, the electrical rough in is done, the cavity sliders are fitted, it looks like the laundry door and the door between the house and garage are both in, and it also looks like the insulation has been installed in the walls and ceiling.



The roof line looks so crisp without the scaffold in the way. There are also temporary downpipes in place.

Apparently plastering is starting on Monday. Things are flying along now!

Monday, September 19, 2016

Our House Build - Wrapping and Plumbing Started



I meant to post these last night but have been hit with the flu so went to sleep not long after arriving home. Yesterday the building started getting wrapped. Sarah went past at mid-day also and said it looked like the plumbers were onsite running water to the wet areas.




Sunday, September 18, 2016

Our House Build - HVAC and Data Cabling

A very productive weekend with my cousin Fletch and my brother Mitch saw the data cabling, speaker cabling and heating/cooling ductwork installed.



Zone dampers mounted - the controller for this system can control four zones, we're only using two (a living and a sleeping zone) but we can always add more dampers and re-route ducts down the track if we feel the need to.



The roof space fills up fast with ducted cooling as the duct is much bigger than used solely for heating.



20 data points ran - we've put 4 each to the TV in the theatre and living rooms, 2 each to the bedrooms, 1 to the fridge, 2 to the kitchen table and 1 to the garage "just in case" - it's much easier to add them now than to do it once the walls are plastered, especially in the theatre room as the walls will have acoustic batts installed.