Tuesday 31 October 2023

Scaffold Drop

After a little over four weeks of waiting, today we finally saw the scaffold team back on site to drop the scaffold back down to the floor height of the upper floor. Stannard has really struggled with this scaffolding team and as a result have sought alternate vendors. Unfortunately we're stuck with the under performing mob and the long waits that come each time we need scaffolding moved. Fortunately it should stay where it is now until they are fully finished with our upper floor. 

We're now expecting to see renderers & plasterers on site to attend to both inside and out, air con ducting installed to the upper floor, ceiling and cornices installed and windows put in as the next steps. Basically they get the upper floor to "lock up". Fingers crossed we get a good run of these trades in November!


Monday 2 October 2023

Roof Cover

It seems everything happened while we were away (as is always the case when you're watching something closely).

As part of the celebration of Cheryl, 11x Wylde's went south for a week down at Siesta Park, just outside of Busselton during the first week of school holidays for some well needed R&R. Back home at our build, things weren't quite so leisurely. Fortunately my neighbours are keeping us updated and half way through our trip down south, on Wed 27th September, I received a couple of messages to say that our roof cover was going on.

When we arrived back from Siesta Park on Friday the 29th, we found the house with the roof cover fully done, the upstairs plumbing all chased in and the electricians on site putting the final touches on chasing in the electrical wiring. Three trades in one week! 

Top Roof Cover is another project milestone, which of course means another bill, but also means another step closer. Our next major milestone is Lock Up, so there's going to be a fair bit happening to get to that stage. Naturally, I took the opportunity to fly the drone over the house to capture the roof cover in all its glory.

Also, randomly after flying the drone over, I noticed a few days later we now have a TV aerial. I don't know when that happened!

Heading toward PCI

Wow, it's been over a month since my last update but this time that's not due to a lack of activity at the build, I've just not ...