Top eaves installed

All of the top roof eaves are now installed, including the balcony.

I hope they will be painted tomorrow, so that the scaffolding is lowered to work on the ground level roof tiles etc.

Downpipes for top level are also installed.

The balcony.

Finally, the cold water point behind the fridge in the kitchen is also installed.

Electrical & Air-Con

The electrical wiring rough in has been done today. Lots of wires everywhere. From memory, they look all in the right places.

At main door entrance

Lighting

Upstairs hall way.

They missed the allocation for electrical point for the ensuite spa. I could not see any cabling.

Also installed on the same day, the Air-Con ducting and distribution unit.

Main distribution unit.

Now to some issues.

You might have read in my previous posts about the air-con dropping being located in the wrong room. Well this did not get corrected, that it would have taken 15 minutes, now the air-con people have placed the ducting using the wrong dropper point!

Wrongly placed dropper point. Bricks already knocked for access.

Should be on this side of the wall.

I plan to meet our SS tomorrow and make sure all issues are resolved before they go any further.

Eave supplies delivered

The panels and other eave supplies have been delivered, ready to be installed next week, as long as we get clear skies. It has been pretty much raining this week and not much has happened on site.
 

2 of the sliding door cavities are delivered.

most of the frame cross bars removed.

doorway and wardrobe footers cut.

Few wet floors upstairs swelling the flooring.

scaffolding has been lowered for eaves work.

Roof tiles completed

We were luck to have our roof installed just before the Australia Day long weekend, as the rain poured and did not stop for 3 days! The roof tiles being installed, I think it saved the wooden flooring being swollen in the future.

The roof tile caps were installed today, and that finalizes the roofing.

Next are the eaves to be installed and painted, by end of this week. I'll keep you posted.

the house with its roof completed.

A snap shot of the accumulated rubbish! Already overflowing.

Sound insulation

Since we are having all the downstairs floors tiled and upstairs laminated wood, after some thinking, we decided to insulate the internal walls for sound absorption.

So I contacted Masterton to have a add on variation, only to be told it is not possible! Once the tender and contract is signed, no changes allowed. Grr!..

So I called our SS and had a chat, as obviously it is not something I can do later, take off all the walls down and install the insulation. He offered me to provide the contact details of the sub-contracting company doing the outer wall insulation and deal directly with them.

I contacted the company and they quoted me for upstairs and downstairs in separate quotes. Upstairs to supply and install R1.7 Soundscreen insulation and downstairs R2.0 Soundscreen insulation.

After looking at the price (around $2300), we decided to go ahead and do the whole house.

Roof tiles started

The top roof tiles are now mostly in place. They may work on Saturday finishing off the angle cover tiles. Not sure what is the next step as yet. I also noticed the laundry door frame was installed. Not sure if I missed it before or it is new.

Back of the house

The laundry door frame installed

Roof sarking

The roof sarking was installed today, as well as most roof tiles lifted up on the roof, ready to be installed tomorrow.

At midday...

By end of the day...

The roof tiles - Monier Horizon Espresso