Roof Completed - Frame Issues Fixed

We had some good progress today!

The roof has been finished with all the capping done and it looks awesome. The carpenter has been and fixed up all the issues from the Frame Inspection report, I'm really happy about this as this has been dragging on for ages. The door frames for the garage, laundry and front door were installed but the sidelight on the front door has completed cracked, I assume from when the carpenter installed the frame he twisted the frame to much, but not to worried about this as it can be fixed at any time.

I also received a call about upgrading our heating unit to support AC add on after handover, I'll probably give this a miss as we will be replacing the entire heating/cooling system with a Actron ESP Ultima system. I'll have a think about this tonight as the Actron system is nearly $20k!.

I also had a look and a think about how I'm going to do my theatre cabinet, specifically what type of cabinet I'm going to use and how its going to be mounted. Also thinking if the network cabling should go into the theatre rack or a seperate dedicated comms rack. For the theater rack I'll probably use a Middle Atlantic Slim 5 rack, as its made for installing into walls. For those of you interested google this one there are heaps of example setups.

Plumbing in the alfresco. The gas is one side of the pier and the hot/cold water points are on the other side. It ended up this way as I was told they couldn't fit these all on one side at contract, but they can easily be moved, I will probably move them as I don't like where they are. I'll ask the SS if he has any issues with me moving them.

I've also been thinking that I want to add an Intercom but I need to understand what one so I can add the cabling.

 Summary:

* All Frame Issues Fixed
* Front, Garage and Laundry Door Frames Installed
* Roof Finished with all Capping Done
* Front Door Window Smashed
* Can I move pluming in Alfresco?
* Large Metal Lintels delivered
* Received call about upgrading heating unit to support add on A/C
* Planning completed for Data, C-Bus, Home Theatre Cabling cabling lengths estimated and orders placed.
* Noggins, time to add these for towel rails, toilet holders, TVs etc. Need to think about which side and how high they need to be mounted.
* Theatre Cabinet, can I get the Middle Atlantic rack in AU?
* Intercom wiring requirements?

Front with capping done

Master Bed, Ens, Bed2, Ldry, Bath

Ens, Bed2, Laundry, Bath, Bed3

Ens, Ldry, Bath, Bed2, Bed3, Bed 4, Games

Bed4, Games, Alfresco, Study, Lounge, Garage

Alfresco / Lounge / Garage Side

Garage / Portico

Our Smashed Side Light

Example of look I'm going for with Theater Rack

Another Example: Thou mine will be twice as tall.

Roof!

We got a roof today!!! Finally.

It's looking great, we are really happy with the colour so far.

The bad; we found that the tilers had dropped a roof tile against the inside of the stacking door, the same door that has the 20cm chip on the outside. I spoke to the SS before getting out to side today about the 20cm chip and they said that this is easily fixed by just replacing the outside facia of the frame. It's actually just screwed on for the fly screen doors. But after having a look at the damamge on the inside of the frame this is not as easily replaceable. So now I have to call the SS back to discuss this with him. It'll have to be removed and sent back to be repainted as its power coated not painted.

Front Facade

Front / East Side (Ens Bath Ldry Bath2/3)

East Side (Ens Bath Ldry Bath2/3)

Ens, Ldry, Bed2, Bed3, Bed4, Games

Bed4, Games, Alfresco

Bed4, Games, Alfresco, Study, Garage

Alfresco, Lounge, Garage

Garage

Big Scratch where tilers dropped a tile agsint the stacking sliding door.

More Chipped Paint and rubber seal.

Chipped Paint, Thanks Tilers

Roof - Not Yet..

After the scaffolding had been installed yesterday I expected that the roof would have been installed. It wasn't and it was probably a good thing as it was expected to rain again in the afternoon and last thing I wanted was the mortar bed for the roof capping to get damaged. Oh well I guess they will do it next week.

Roof Scaffolding Installed

Today I went down half expecting to see a roof but really knowing that it wouldn't be up yet, which might have saved the house from getting a light flooding from the rain. As the frame was up there was no where for the water to escape and as a result there was 35mm deep of water over the entire slab!

Today they have installed the roof scaffolding and our Austral Chocolate bricks have been delivered. The colours look consistent across the batches which is a great start. I was worried there might have been a phone call saying that I had to change my choice.

Also got a call from Argus about electrical wiring in relation to their being no light switch points indicated in each room and that they correctly suspected that I was doing C-Bus after handover, other than that all Good. They advised that they will be at the site to begin next Thursday.



I also decided today that after the Electricians have finished on site I will run the pink C-Bus cable (cat5 like cable required for C-Bus communications) for all the light switches for my house rather than trying to install it down the wall after handover. I need to now plan where I want all my switches, future sensors etc and how much cable I need.