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 take the opportunity to do some astrophotography at the same time. The stars were really bright last night. Thought that I should emphasis the Southern Cross over our new home.
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!…
The electrician has completed the prewiring, you can see part of the house wiring on the video here. The network cables to the surveillance cameras was completed and the external cameras installed. The network cables to the TV Ethernet ports will be installed next, to ensure that viewers have the best bandwidth when watching anything…
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!
All network cable wirings have been completed. The plasterboards and the home insulation has arrived, so it’s full on home construction (by ourselves at least). Here‘s a time-lapse of the ceiling insulation for the garage. I’m sort of glad that I didn’t go for the 6m plasterboard sheets which was first quote by a plasterboard…
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…
