After half the plasterboard has been installed with priority given to the garage so that the garage door installer won’t be further delayed, the garage door is finally installed.
Just waiting on the plasterboard installer to be back for another week’s work and that should then be completed.
On to the next task on the list which would be to organise the materials for wet area floors followed by waterproofing ready for tiling.
Rock up 7.40am at site and my portaloo (portable toilet) which was supposed to have been delivered was nowhere to be seen! A frantic call to the hirer and it seems like there was some kind of mix up at the office but he promised that it will be delivered on site within a few…
The last 2 months has been spent working on the wet area and the water proofing is more or less complete ready for the tiling. The plumber however needs to install a P trap under the bathtub drain, so will need to hack a little of the concrete and the water proofing around the drain…
Only 1 day of heavy rain in the whole work week and all claddings are completed. We even have the main doors and lockset installed! Lockup is almost there, apart from a few minor details. Time to organise the Portaloo, the plumber and electrician!
The ATU (Aerated/Aerobic Treatment Unit, i.e. wastewater treatment system) was installed today. Pending power and plumbing connections, it will be ready for use. This link shows a time lapse of today’s installation. On the plasterboard front, we’re still waiting for additional assistance to install them. What we’ve found is that we can installed up to…
After almost 2 weeks of rain, preventing the carpenters from completing the roof sheets, we finally have 5 continuous work days of sunshine. With fine weather in Winter though comes very cold mornings and frost. This makes working on the roof treacherous, who would have thought that fine weather is also a hinderance to progress!…
A Happy New Year to all our existing and new followers. There wasn’t a lot of updates in the last 3-4 weeks because I was stuck in home quarantine for 14 days after my trip to Brisbane. As such I decided to put in extra shift last 2 days working on the plasterboard and to…
