Ground Floor Works

There has been a spattering of activity over the last few week post the completion of our ground floor roof cover. 

Firstly the skylight appeared on Good Friday. I had visited site on Thursday March 28th and hadn't seen any progress since the roof cover had been finished. I then went to site late in the afternoon of Good Friday, March 29th and the first thing I noticed was the skylight was now installed! In fact, I didn't notice straight away, I was on site to water the fruit trees, had turned on the water and while walking through the kitchen realised it wasn't as dark as it had been the day before. Looked up and saw the skylight!

Wanting to get a photo of the skylight from the top as well as the bottom, I walked upstairs and that's when I got my second surprise of the day - cabinetry for our kitchenette was in place! I then looked around the coner into the master and sure enough, our ensuite had our vanity and shaving cabinets installed. Returning to the other side of the upper floor and cabinets were also installed for the kids powder and bathroom. A very unexpected, but pleasant, surprise indeed.

Another week passed with no works until the following Friday when two vehicles were parked out the front with a cement mixer. Turns out these guys were here to brick in the kids bath as well as install brick bases for under our bathroom vanity units. The bricked in and rendered over their work. Small steps but steps none-the-less.

We flew to Singapore on 8th April for our first overseas family trip so I'm unsure of the timeline for the next 7 days but I do know the plumbers were on site when we left. Upon our return we found that all the ground floor water lines had been installed, including to our outdoor kitchen area and outside taps and all the upstairs waste piping was complete. At some point the waterproofing team had also been back and waterproofed around the newly bricked in bath and vanity bases as well as giving the walls and floor another coating to the upstairs bathrooms. They also waterproofed the balcony.

This week saw the air-con team come out and extend the piping and ducting into the ground floor living area under the ground floor roof. The next step is for the rendering team to come but we've been told it's a bit of a wait for them (4-6) weeks. In the meantime we can expect a few other small bits done like measuring up our commercial sliding door and construction of the light tunnel for the skylight. It's a bit death by a thousand cuts but we are inching closer to the finish.

In other news we have purchased and received the lights we intend to put in our void and master bedroom and are awaiting delivery of the light that will go over the kitchen island. We have also asked Stannard for a variation to fit out our bar area as we are keen to get the same stone benchtop as the rest of the house before the engineered stone ban comes into effect.