- Building Update – 11 March 2023
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…
- Building Update – 23 June 2022
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…
- Building Update – 24 April 2022
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…
- Building Update – 5 March 2022
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…
- Building Update – 12 February 2022
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…
- Building Update – 1 January 2022
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…
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…