Day 91 (9th Aug 2011) - Lockup Inspection

We had our Lockup stage inspection (Pre-plaster inspection) this afternoon.

This time we hire another inspector to do the inspection. This inspector has many years experience in house inspection and he's very famous in some building forums. When I called him, he suggested that we should have the pre-plaster inspection instead of the lockup inspection. Some electrician drill holes through timber inappropriately that might damaging the frame works. So we hold the inspection until our SS told us the electricity, plumbing n insulation are done. 

This inspector is very detail concerned. It took one and half hour to complete the inspection. He told us BB did a very good job and he's amazed. BB uses good quality timber for the frames, every room's size is correct, BB does many detail works while other builders don't care about small things. In conclusion, our inspector rated our house's quality as in top 10% based on all his past inspections. I just wanna to thank all the workers and our lovely lovely SS!! Our SS communicated with the inspector this time and walked with him all the way through. It's much easier for us cuz they can understand each other's 'construction related words'. Nothing major problems were found, just some smalls things need to be modified. Yah~~~

I took some photos while inspecting. 

Day 89 (7th Aug 2011) - Cladding n Eaves are Painted

Cladding and eaves are painted this week. I was worried about the Colorbond Surfmist is too white with Hawthorn bricks. When I saw it today, what a relief!! Nice bright white matches well with my bricks!!! Love it!!!

Furthermore, top half of the brick wall is washed and cleaned, again, love Hawthorn so much~

My SS told me the plumbing and electricity are done, how quick they are! However I can not go inside my house without BB's permission, I will take some photos when we have the Lockup inspection next week.

So far so good~

Day 85 (3rd Aug 2011) - Cladding is Done

Cladding is done but it hasn't been painted yet. I guess the painter will paint it with eaves together.

Some wading birds nearby~

Day 84 (2nd Aug 2011) - We Have Eaves!

We have eaves and cladding will be on soon, yah~~~

Day 80 (29th July 2011) - Antenna is on

Bricking is done! Antenna is on, silver n shiny~ Little chimney (dunno what's it called, lolz) is on as well. I'm told that cladding will be on next week and then they will remove the scaffold to tile the roof on alfresco.

PS, our liason left BB, pity, she's very good at her job, reachable, fast response and very familiar with all the details. A new liason is on our case now.

Day 75 (24th July 2011) - More Bricks

1st floor's windows on~

Day 73 (22nd July 2011) - Roof finished

Roof is done and some bricklayers are working on site! Looks like the solar panels is on. I took the pic from one side.

Today I found a pond about 100m from our house, and there are many ducks inside, beautiful view~

Day 70 (19th July 2011) - We have a roof!!!

We have a roof!!!!

The tiles look a bit lighter than their real colour due to the sunlight.

Day 69 (18th July 2011) - On Site Meeting

This morning we had our 2nd time on-site meeting. Our SS is good on time, he's there earlier than us!

He showed us through and pointed out all the works that related to the frame inspection report and they are all fixed. 

The brick pier at the porch which was oblique is now corrected to be vertical. SS told us we are having off-white mortar. The off-white is not the white white but a bit of grey tone, and it's going to be whiter when it totally dries out. About the partial missing slab in the front, he told us there are some concrete under the bricks although it is lower than the porch's base. Since I did not have a tool to dig and look at it, I will leave it to my private inspector to check out during next inspection.

The roof tiling should start tomorrow, hope it will be a sunny day.

Day 66 (15th July 2011) - Gutter & Fascia Done

The scaffolding is up and the gutter & fascia are done. The roof tiles arrived, I think the roofing will start next week.

I think someone had a meal here and forgot his folk (:

I love my roof tiles (Bristol Shadow)~

My contrast bricks - Austral Ash:

Day 62 (11th July 2011) - Bricking started!!!

Again, BB is super fast!! When I checked the progress on 'My Place' there is no update yet. But when I checked with my liason, she told me the bricking has started already and the gutter+fascia will be on soon. 

So I drove by my house this afternoon and took some pics. I was worried about the main bricks Hawthorn until I saw my house. It is such a beautiful brick and worth every cent I spend. Nice brown colour with a bit of deep blue blending in, LOVE IT!!

At the same time, I found some problems:

1) There should had an extended slab under where the contrast bricks stand in front of porch (according to the engineering plan), however, it's missing. Instead of concrete, they pus some bricks under to support the partial weight of the contrast brick wall. I'm worried about the different material will generate different support strength, and when the slab is moving during the next few years, it will cause an vertical cracks on that wall. I emailed my liason to check that out. I hope they can build the missing part and connect it to the main slab (porch slab) in some way, then to lay the contrast bricks.

2) I'm not sure about the mortar colour of my contrast bricks. I chose white-off, but it seems more grey to   me.

3) One pier in front of porch is not vertical, even I can tell it. I think they need to re-do it.

Day 55 (4th July 2011)-Bricks Arrived

Good news!

After 3 weeks delay, our bricks have finally arrived!! Hope the bricklayer will work on site soon~