Upper Floor: Glass, ceiling & plaster coat

This week was one of the busiest we've seen for our build yet.😀 

But before I get into that, we only had one thing happen last week - we had the our brickie team from the ground floor arrive back on site to finish bricking up the balcony. Previously they had left an access hole through the balcony to allow trades to get wheelbarrows through the balcony wall for all the cement render. That access was bricked up last week. Was a surprise to see our ground floor brick crew back but since to say g'day to the team again.

Onto the week that was. We had three different trades attend this week. Yep, you read that right, three! The glazier from Jason windows kicked things off Monday by putting in all our external windows and sliding door glass to our upper floor. He was all done by Monday afternoon.  Tuesday saw an early delivery of gyprock and cornice materials followed shortly after by the attendance of the ceiling guys to start putting the ceilings in. They wasted no time and had pretty much finished putting it all up in one day.  We love how the raised ceiling in our master bed is looking! They came back Wednesday morning to finish off what they hadn't got to as well as do the drywall sheeting to the void wall, which doesn't get the cement render treatment that most of the other walls receive.  

Friday the rendering team were back on site to finish rendering the external balcony now that the brickwork had been completed as well as start applying the smooth plaster coat to the internal walls.  I was surprised at just how smooth this plaster coat goes on. No doubt that comes down to the skill of the trade and when you see the quality of the work we're getting, it does make all the waiting a bit more palatable. 

Our fortnightly update that we got on Wed also suggested that the progress will continue in the coming weeks with ceiling guys back to put on the cornicing once the internal plaster work is done, a trade to come and apply our external mouldings (the materials were also delivered this week) and even the waterproofing to the upstairs wet areas are booked in to be done. Nice to get a good run of trades, especially this close to Christmas when I was expecting things to quieten down.