10th of April Update

Yet another massive week inside the house.  So what have we been up to?

Plastering

• Every joint has had a second coat and 60% of the house has been final coated
• All the external corners have been second coated and are ready for a good sand and final coat
• All the internal corners have been final coated and are ready for sanding
• We have the commercial grade sander hired for the weekend and plan to have the full house final coated and sanded by the end of the weekend

Cornice

• We did our first couple of rooms after getting a lesson from Chris the carpenter and I must say our corner joints look much better.
• We are hoping to get a pile of cornice up over the weekend while we wait for the final coat to dry.

Plumbing

• Dave has been and connected the water to the house and run a pile of external taps and plumbed in the hot water systems at each end
• Given the remnants of another tropical cyclone dumping  pile of rain on Perth over the last couple of days we did some more storm water including connecting up more down pipes and modifying the first flush systems for the shed and the house to sit at the lowest point of the system so we can drain the water that pools in the system

Carpentry

• Chris was able to give us another day this week and completed a bunch of window reveals and architraves.
• Another day or so and the carpentry will be finished .

Tiling

• Mike the tiler and his offsider Daniel have been busy tiling and the tiling is 85% complete. 
• Still need to grout everything and do the wall tiles in the spare toilet.

Kitchen

• The Kitchen for the main  house arrived on Friday.
• The pressure is on to install the kitchen as the "Caesar Stone" bench top people need to come up and measure up the installed kitchen before they will begin manufacturing the bench tops. At this stage it looks like we will move in without bench tops in the kitchen.

Paving

• We found a paver and are just organising delivery of our pavers.  He is good to start on the 20th of April 

Fireplace

• Driving past a vacant block the other day we noticed someone had dumped bricks.  We drove in and found they were old red clay bricks.  People pay good money for these these things so to come across a free source of several thousand is good.  We wanted recycled old solid red clay bricks to brick up the fireplace.  Most are stamped with either Stare Brickworks or Cardup and have a bit of mortar and stuff on them which is perfect for the look we are trying to achieve.

So it is all happening. Move in date is set in stone as April 30th as that is when the lease expires on the rental.  The removalist has been booked and we are moving regardless so we are going to keep working like crazy and make it happen.  A few people hings have come through to quote on things and expressed doubt that we can finish in the time frame we are stuck with but the tradies that know us and have worked with us on this and previous builds (Dave, Chris, John) believe we can do it and so do we (plus we don't have a choice).

Nan's shower

 Nan's Vanity cabinet

Boys Shower

Our Kitchen
Arrived in the rain on Friday.  The delivery boys decided they couldn't get the truck down the driveway in the pouring rain so we would have to open the pallets and carry every single box in by hand.  We decided if we reversed the Landcruiser up to the truck they could use their forktrolley to put the pallets straight onto the tray of the Landcruiser and we could drive the pallets down to the shed and then unload them.  Way easier.

Plastering

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