27-Feb-2015 Update

So the focus has moved to the inside of the house.  All the electrical wires, gas and water pipes in the walls need to be in place before the plasterboard can be fitted.   Work in this vain is progressing well.

John the electrician has now run the bulk of the wiring throughout the house.  Dave the plumber has run a pile of water pipes and gas pipes.  Still a bit to do on the plumbing side so some walls will need to remain open for the time being.  Brett has been busy adding trimmers to the walls where ever a tap is to be mounted.

This and some extra carpentry bits have kept us pretty busy.  The 3 cavity sliding door frames have been fitted and are ready to have plasterboard added.  The bulkhead over the breakfast bar has been built (essentially where the raked ceiling marries back into the main roof line and ceiling).

We needed to move a bunch of plasterboard that was leaning on the end wall of the granny flat to fit some power points and this wall was also the inlet from the gas bottles and also houses the gas hot water unit for the granny flat end.  It was all kinds of random sizes so rather than just moving it to another pile we determined which walls the sheets were destined for and we installed them.  So there is now a bunch of random sheets fitted around the house.  This also involved sorting through the insulation so we can start putting that in as well.

We are now looking forward to  9 straight days of working on the house starting Saturday.  With much of the ancillary work completed we can really focus now on installing plasterboard.  Expect to see a pile of plasterboard installed in the next  blog.

 Entry Wall

 Nib Wall in the rumpus room (note wiring for light switch) The first complete wall in the house (plaserboard on both sides and insulation installed)

 Water pipes

 Cavity slider frames

Raked ceiling meets flat ceiling over breakfast bar