Insulation in and 1st floor wrap

Went to site this morning and found insulation went in yesterday and 1st floor wrapped.  We went for R1.5 acoustic insulation for our house as the insulation companies that I spoken to recons that there really isn't that much gain from R1.5 to R2.5 so it was more cost effective with R1.5.  But after seeing the R1.5 insulation in person, it seem quite thin...  Maybe should have gone with R2.5.

Progress so far this month

Hey guys

Just to update the recent work done.  So far the scaffolding, gyprock, 1st floor brick has been deliver.  The roof beam on the garage has been also installed.  Ground floor brick has been finished.  We have also ask the plumber to connect a town water tap for the laundry as we might not want to use rain water to wash the cloth for our infant.  We have found out we have different option of setting up the hot water control switch located at the kitchen.  Apparently there are 2 ways of setting up the hot water system.  Option 1, we can have the switch controlling the whole hot water temperature of the whole house where allow adjustment to the maximum of 50oC.  Option 2, we have the switch controlling the kitchen tap only where we can adjust the kitchen tap to a maximum of 60oC and the rest of the house will run at the pre-set temperature of 50oC.  Option 2 involves getting a different hot water system that can go up to 60oC instead of standard 50oC hot water system. We went with option 2 coz we thought might come in more handy with hotter water at the kitchen sink plus we probably wont see ourselves adjusting lower than 50oC since my wife loves hot showers. 

Yesterday I drove by to find the scaffolding already installed for next week.  Next week will be a busy week.  Insulation need to go in the exterior walls and the internal bedroom walls.  Gyprock is going be installed on Tuesday.  In the same time the exterior 1st floor wall will be wrap and brick work hopefully will be finish for the whole house too.  Our SS is starting to get a bit panicking since everything has taken bit longer than expected due to the size of our house.  But he was quite happy telling that he has figure out a whole building plan for our house from next week onward which should see our house built in time.  Figures cross that we get a fine weather next week on.

Brick - after three days work

Brick laying progress after 3 days of work

Brick Started

Brick work finally started last Thursday due to the wet weather.  Our SS is back from his holidays too.  He told me that brick will take probably around week and half for the whole house without rain. 

The brick layer were back in full force today on their second day on the bricks.  We will be rendering after settlement so please note that this is not going to be the finish colour of our house.

Brick Delivered

Not much has happened in the last few days except that bricks have been delivered.  It have been raining non-stop for a few days.  I'm glad that our roof tiles have already gone on.  Acting SS said that if we are lucky, we might see the bricky start on the brick before Easter but with all the rain recently, i think chances are it will not start till after Easter. 

Bi-Fold height

Unfortunately despite the great progress made recently by Metricon, we have notice some mistakes too.  First was the bi-fold.  Both Vicky and I remember been told that the height of the bi-fold give was the same height as the displayed during our colour selection.  As it turned out, it wasn't the right height and was in fact lower which made the entrance to the outdoor room looked small especially when we have 2.7m height ground floor ceiling height inside.  I have made an enquiry to our acting SS and was told that if we wanted to change to the higher 2.4m height, we will need to put everything on hold.  There will be an admin charge, structural charge and re-drafting charge which will cost a few thousand not to mention the cost to remove the bi-fold and order new one in, and then re-install it back on.  New bi-fold will be more expensive compare to the one installed because it is higher and we might need to also add a steel beam on top of the bi-fold for extra support.  Our new acting SS recon if we are lucky, we might be delayed for a month if everything went through smoothly but there is a good chance that it could take more than 1 month.  He will be making an enquiry to the executive building manager today for us to see what option we got.  Personally, I prefer the doors to be changed to the right height but the cost and time added to make the change seem just too much....   : (   OH Great!!!  

So much has happened!!!

Hey guys.

Haven't updated recently as I haven't be able to get to site before sunset so I have no image to post.

List of recent activity
Front doors installed
A & L windows installed
Duce Bi-fold installed
Ground floor wrapped
Plumbing rough-in started
Electrical rough-in started
Air-con Duct started