Inside tiling complete apart from grouting

The inside tiles are done except for the grouting which is planned for this week, below are photos for the en-suite and main bathrooms. The outside tiles are next.

The garage door was installed sometime last week and I’m regretting my choice on this one. I should have gone with the original slat look to match the eaves and front door but instead went for the paneled look. Too late now. One good thing though is the colour matches the eaves perfectly. 

Even if the house was ready for us to move in prior to Christmas the internal wardrobes wouldn’t be ready for us and I’m guessing this will be the same for the blinds/shutters as everyone seems to be fully occupied till Christmas.

Tiling to start

All of the flooring is now complete as well as the remaining plasterboard that was required for the downstairs hallway. All of the arcs and skirtings have been installed plus the laundry door is in. The fireplace surround is done and waiting for the rest of the joinery. 

This week the tilers are starting to lay both the inside and outside tiles so that the bathroom fittings can be installed next week. 

I’ve lined up a couple of businesses to give quotes for internal wardrobes and blinds/shutters for the next 2 weeks with the hope that they can be installed mid December if the house is ready for us to move in, as I wasn’t really happy with the stock standard robes being provided by the builder.

Floors done

So this is what has been going on since my last post – The floorboards have been laid in all of the upstairs rooms. The Quickslide wardrobe doors have been installed for all of the built ins. The internal doors, door frames and skirting boards have also been done. The alfresco deck has been done and it is level with the inside floorboards so that we have a seamless inside/outside dining area – yipee!

The shed door has been made and installed using the same Ekowood material as the eaves and decking.

Drive by

I did a drive by and noticed that the front door and sidelight had now been installed. I’m not too sure if I like the opaque sidelight, I think I would have preferred clear glass, but this is something my partner wanted so I let this one slide. The Chippys were inside working on installing the floorboards and doors/architraves etc.

The tilers should be in next and then we’ll be on the home stretch. The viewing of the internal robes at another site has been delayed again as that home was having its floorboards polished so access was limited. Hopefully we will get to see them this Friday so that we can finalise that component.

Landscaping

We met with the landscaper and we already get the feeling that this will be an expensive exercise. We are keeping the plan simple with just continuing the existing hedging “Murraya” and “Photinia Robusta” around the perimeter of the site with a couple of feature trees here and there.

We have decided to not put in the planned external stairs instead we are creating a large planter to house a medium size blossom tree which I have wanted for some time now. The plan is also to have some flowering plum trees at the edge of the kitchen landing so that it is reflected in the kitchen splash back. I’m really hoping that this comes about as I imagined.

Another walkthrough

Since the last blog post we have met up with the builder to walkthrough the progress so far and correct/make decisions for the rest of the build. There is still so much to do, so we think it is unlikely that we will be finished this year but the builder is still optimistic. The internal plaster boarding is still progressing slowly with corners still to do, the waterproofing though for the wet rooms has now been done with the screeding due to start next week.

Architraves, skirting and all of the internal, laundry and front doors are now onsite ready for installation.  Electricians were onsite making the cut outs for all of the cabling/power points.

Next week we have also lined up a meeting with the landscaper to discuss what needs to be done to complete the build.

On the inside though we still need to confirm the internal robe layouts and view another build site with the robes installed.

Some progress

The outside courtyard is underway with excavation done in order to construct the planter box walls for the pre-existing hedges and new ones that will come with the landscaping.

The two sets of glass stacker doors are finally in plus the bi-folds that lead out to the seamless alfresco.

Also from what we can see most of the internal boarding has been done. So overall we are progressing slowly.