It has been quite a while since our last update. Many milestone has been reached since then. Our house hass reached practical completion in November 2023, meaning the house now has functioning toilets, kitchen, full electrical power, etc. This is followed by a flurry of activities, getting our previous existing house ready for sale, home…
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…
Since the last update we have been working hard on all the wet areas, mainly concrete screeding so that I can continue to the next step which would be water proofing followed by tiling. The video can be viewed here. The retaining wall on the South side of the sand pad is also completed together…
These pictures were taken after 9 days of plasterboard work. On the 10th day, the installers wanted another 4 more days to complete the job and I’ve decided against it as they were already charging way beyond Perth market rate. As the heavy lifting 2 person job is already completed, I should be able to…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
