Done and Dusted!

Well, we had a productive day at the house today.  Went over there around 10.30 am and met with our lovely neighbours, fellow blogger,  Skypiea and his wife.  What nice people!  So glad we have good neighbours on our end of  Copper Street.  We spent about an hour having a good laugh with them before they left to do their tile selection (and spend more dollars) at Di Lorenzo.
We also had Mike from Ezyclip fences come over to measure up for the fence quote.  Ben and my son Thees got to work doing the extra power points, TV and data wiring.  Skypiea gave Ben the fantastic idea of the Network hub and this inspired Ben and Thees to run some cable for that as well.  We will buy the hub ourselves.  I hope we remembered everything.  Will go over tomorrow to draw all of this onto a spare floor plan for reference later on.

Super T, up in the roof cavity

I kept myself busy with what started off as just a dusting of the frame to prepare for the gyprock but ended up being a full on sweep out of the entire house.  I couldn't believe how much of mud there was on our floors and couldn't just leave it that way, especially with gyprock going up next week.

Master bedroom after I swept it, notice the pile
of dirt at the bottom of the picture.

By the end of the day, we finished at about 4.30 pm, I was well and truly dusted. The following picture is proof of that.

Busy Weekend

We have so much to do this weekend.  Planning on attending the Art workshop at The Ponds tomorrow morning.  Have to also fit in a meeting with Ezyclip Fencing for a fencing quote.  I already have one quote from Local Fencing.  Will then post off the quotes to our neighbours for their approval. 
This weekend Ben and my son are doing the wiring for our downlights and intercom system.  I will be trying to clean the inside of the house prior to the internal linings going on.  I cannot believe how filthy the place is.  There's wood chips etc. all over and would hate to think that the gyprock is put up with all that stuff behind the walls.  We invested in a cordless vacuum from Bunnings.  Hope that does the job well.  Have a great weekend fellow bloggers, I will be slaving away at the house. 

"It's Electrifying"

"I've got eaves, they're multiplying
and I'm losing control
cause the doors, are ready for sliding
It's electrifying"

This post is dedicated to my friend Melinda, you said you loved my cheesy titles.
We had a tradie overload today.  Ben went over this morning and rang me to report that there were at least 8 utes parked around the house with tradies galore busily working on the house, some in the heavy rain.  Two guys were working in the rain to install the eaves (thank you guys).  Carpenters were busy installing the frames and track for the cavity sliding doors and electricals were done today as well.   The main power box was installed with a lot of wires all over the frame in accordance with the electrical plan we agreed on.
The ducting for our vacuum system was installed.  We're also having the solar panels installed by EB so looks like they did some preliminary work on that as well.  We're doing our air conditioning ourselves and my son (with Ben doing most of the work I'm sure) will be doing the down light installation.  The council and Tyrell's inspection is due later this week.  I've got to say, loving your work EB!

Eaves above the garage

Downpipes installed



Cavity installed for sliding doors to media room



Frame done for bulkhead in passageway

Ducting for vacuum

Electricals at front door

Dedication

Thank you to the two tradies who braved the heavy rain to install the downpipes this morning.  Now that's what I call dedication.  Ben drove by at 7.30 am on his way to dropping off our daughter at school, and saw the two guys working in the heavy rain.  He rang me to let me know while I was on my way to work.  It was teeming down with rain and apparently these diligent tradies were busy doing the installation.  Our SS must be cracking the whip or something.  Thank you guys for your dedication and sorry if you catch a cold.  

True Colours

"I see your true colors 
shining through 
I see your true colors 
and that's why I love you 
so don't be afraid to let them show 
your true colors 
true colors are beautiful 
like a rainbow"

Render done and our bricks have been cleaned  today.  Didn't think anything would be done today but I drove over to the house and two guys were busy blasting the bricks.  The bricks have really revealed their true colors.  They are looking fantastic.  Exactly how I hoped they would turn out. The ugly scaffolding just needs to be removed from the roof now.  Don't know what happened to the guys who do the eaves.  All the material is still sitting outside the garage, open to the elements. Everything is blending in beautifully now.  Looking good!  We even met fellow bloggers, the lovely Bel and Phil who are building, The reedman home,   a street away from us.  Also met a few of the other neighbours from around us.  Seems like all the neighbours were out checking on their builds today.

Render Me

Ben went over to the house today and was happy to report that the front section and top of the columns have been rendered.  The renderer was still working on the wall around the entrance when Ben went there this afternoon.  From the pictures it looks like a pretty good job.  I will have to go over tomorrow and check it out myself, not that I'm an expert.  These rendered portions will be painted to match our fascia boards and garage door.  A stained timber beam sits on top of the columns.
Seems like eaves are next on the to do list as the material for the eaves were delivered yesterday.

Mmmm, don't think I asked for this part to be rendered.

Can't wait for the bricks to be cleaned now so that the true color of the bricks come through.  Should look good!

"The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe!"

We have been researching on how to fit out the wardrobes in the three bedrooms.  We asked EB to leave the square set openings for the wardrobe spaces and they credited us for the doors and shelves.  We wanted to get better inserts and doors installed instead of paying EB a fortune for them to do it.
Ben has visited a few wardrobe installers at Wetherill Park, they all seem to be around that area for some reason.  Anyway, he's been told that we can have quite a few door options, theres mirrored, polyurethane, melamine and opaque glass doors.  We think we should have a mixture of mirrored and opaque glass doors.  I can't see the kids keeping the mirrored doors spotlessly clean.

The wardrobe inserts depend entirely on what our requirements may dictate.  I think we need some drawers and lots of shelves and hanging space.  I don't allow shoes in the bedrooms, so we won't need shoe racks.

We really need to sort this out soon as it's definitely required right after we move in.  More decisions to make and dollars to spend.