locked up

checked on last Thursday and it seems like we are officially at lock up stage. We now have our timber look garage door install from B&D, looks like there a merlin automatic door opener box in the rubble pile aswell. Its a shame they only include one opener as an inclusion when the house design must have two garage doors. As all the doors have been hung and locked I can't seem to erm break into our house, but I can see in the kitchen window that more things have been delivered including our kitchen. I can't see the details on the laminated cupboard doors, so from a distance they almost seem like plain grey. Things seem to be rolling along again, and this time the rain shouldn't really affect the tradies as they are working on the the inside now. Once thing i've notice is there is a lot of overlap in work. Apparently firstyle doesn't allow more than one tradie onsite at the one time, so i've seen some incomplete work whilst new work has commenced, such as all the cornices are not up yet but they have starting putting the doors in. Hope everything will keep rolling along and we will be moving in soon ;-)

Doors locked

Didn't mention but the previous day we had a peek and there was a few cornices going in. Also notice we now have a staircase, and today our lovely newington xs24 with frosted glass was covering our entrance. We discovered that all the doors have been locked, foturnately have a understairs access door which has no lock...so I crawled in there to gain access ;-). So far cornices are still incomplete but seem they can't delay other works so all internal doors have been delivered and skirting as well, skirting will only be tacked as we will be tiling the first floor after handover. Hopefully they won't wall off the under stairs so I can take some photos tomorrow.

walls and ceilings

At this stage our roofing is finally complete, this includes eaves and infills. We have done our pre-sheeting inspection last friday with the addition services of Howard Ryan building inspector. Everything was good, although a few things were outstanding. At this point we were advised by Howard, that if we were to wall mount any flat screen unit above 40" our wall frame would require blocking for reinforcement. I wish firstyle had told us this at the sales consultation. So the incomplete stuff included missing tripple grip on one of the trusses, incomplete shear blocking for ensuite wardrobe, and uncleaned weep hole in the brick work. Anyways i don't think Firstyle would rectify any of these problems unless it doesn't meet Australian building standards. We are still waiting for confirmation about the wall blocking. friday they were finishing off the electrical rough-in. And supposedly the insulation guys were coming in at 10am. We checked in the afternoon, insulation work only half completed. Well today we checked out the house and gyrock work has begun, pretty much the first level is walled and ceiling in gyrock. Except for the powder room, looks like they have run outta fibro for one of the walls and the laundry partition wall. No actual work on the edges and cornices have comenced. And looks like they will need another delivery of gyrock. That itself will probably take up one day of construction.