Building Update – 3 September 2021

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!…

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…

Another week of 60% good weather and 40% heavy rain. All the wall claddings are completed, the roof over the garage is done, only another 25% of the main roof remains. Next week looks to be like more of the same, weather wise, with the first 3 work days looking good before the heavy rain…

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…

All the minor fixes identified during the lockup inspection has been fixed by the builder, so we will be collecting the keys from the builder likely this coming Friday. For followers who are not familiar with house build in Australia, once we use our keys on the locks, the builder’s key would not work, meaning…