Tiling Completed

Tiling has been completed and the tiler was actually nice enough to send me some photos of there work. They had called me to see if I would be dropping off the Alfresco tiles or not for some reason !

The wall tiles are all Cotto Trio Flax Gloss
The feature in the niches are sliced pebbles
and the floor tiles are all DL10254 not sure what the name of this tile is.

We did order additional wall tiles and will be attempting to do floor to ceiling after handover, i'll update on how this goes.

Internals Well Underway - Lots of Photos

Ok Prepare yourself for photo overload.

To summarize our selections included the following

• External Bricks are Bowral Solid Dry Pressed Murray Grey
• Gutters: ACE gutters in Monolith color, or otherwise known as Monument
• Roof Tiles: Boral Contour Gunmetal 
• Window frames were in surf mist
• Internal Doors: Corinthian Motive Doors Motiv MOTP 3D
• Front Door: Corinthian Infinity INF 8G 2340 x 1020 Front door
• Polyurethane Cabinets in Gloss Taubmans Struan Grey, along with bevelled edges and flat profile.
• Countertops are Ceaserstone Osprey
• Round bowls chosen for the sinks
• Floor tiles in all wet areas are Di Lorenzo DL10254 not sure of the actual name

Overall I can't fault the workmanship, there are a few errors that need to be sorted but nothing major. We had a broken door, as well as a niche done incorrectly.

The only thing I would have changed at tender time would have been the provision for waterproofing of wet areas. I'm not a waterproofing expert, but would have preferred the entire area had been waterproofed, and not just done to the minimum standard.

I'll add that the waterproofing is done this way by the majority of builders from what I have seen, with the exception of a few.

Other things I would have asked to be changed would have been.

• Recessing the power box into the brickwork
• Recessing the gas heater into brickwork as well.

All of our internal doors including the robe, pantry doors are 2.3m 

Laundry door is standard, and we may change it later on.

We have a front door.... Oh and plaster is done

Wasn't expecting anything to be done this week, but we now have a front door, and it looks like all the internal plaster work has now been done.

I can't wait to get a peek inside, to see what it all looks like. Hopefully I can arrange a walk through soon.

Managed to get a few mediocre pictures.

Eaves & Electrical Rough in & Insulation

Well last week bricks where cleaned, and I was starting to wonder how long our build was going to take.

On Friday I was told that gyprock would be started this coming week. Lets just say they have done a lot in the past week, and I have been left amazed.

I am also impressed with the way Provincial has approached and are resolving some of the issues that have popped up.

• The framing issue I mentioned earlier, I could see through a window has now been resolved which is fantastic.
• The missing articulation joint in the rear will be added in next week as well. 

Lets just say I am pretty impressed with how it's all looking and starting to take shape. The finish level from the outside does look pretty amazing. The bricks look even better now that they have fully dried. I can't wait to see what it will look like when gyprocked.

Since last week it looks like they have finished off the following.

• Eaves Done
• Electrical Rough in done
• Insulation done
• Gas Meter installed
• Electrical box installed

I have been told that gyprock will be started this coming week. The house is really starting to take shape.

For those following the one thing I would reconsider is how much sound insulation you get done between walls, if I were to go back I would probably include a few more walls. Then again most people don't really do any !!

Anyways on with the photos.

Bricks Cleaned

Went by the house the other day, and it looked like I had probably just missed the brick cleaner by a few hours.

The bricks still looked a little damp, but they had been acid washed. The Bowral Murray Grey bricks have come up really nice. 

I haven't been able to have a look at the bricks close up, but I'm hoping that no mortar has been blown out through the washing process.

Kinda Grey and Pink up close, the brown brick will be moroka'd and dune in color.

Looks nice when the sunlight hits it.