Plastering Day 1

Thankfully Metricon's overworked carpenter made an appearance yesterday long enough to be able to complete the portico roof, flat roof areas of the retreat (Study) and garage. That made way for the plasterers to make a start on the internal walls and ceiling.

At the end of day 1 all the ceilings except the garage and most of the internal walls have plaster board attached. According to the plasterers boss they'll have another 3 to 4 days of work and intend to work on Saturday to get the job finished.

After a quick walk through after dark tonight it's starting to feel like a house now.

Starting to get a bit of list of issues which we want addressed and will take this up with our SS tomorrow. Nothing too serious but time to get on top of them now I think.

Shower Rail

Went a little crazy here but we hope the end result will be worth it. What you see pictured is a shower rail by Methven...expensive...yes when done as a special order through Metricon though not as bad as I would have thought. Total cost $700 installed. Only thing is everything about the shower rail is square and the standard Metricon supplied Irwell mixer is very much round. That caused a last minute race around to source a mixer to suit. I'll save that story for another post.

Sound Insulation

Getting a little bored waiting for the internal walls to be done so I thought I'd try my hand at adding some sound insulation into some of the internal walls. Works out more expensive than I would have thought, what you see is $90 worth of R2.5 Acoustic insulation.

Master Bedroom View

One thing we we really liked about this block when we purchased it was the different viewpoints. From the lounge/dining area you can see the sea and from the master bedroom you see the bush as in the photo above. Actually there is a dam in there as well which seems pretty popular with the local ducks.

Rendering Part 2

Another picture of the front facade showing the drying render. Carpenter still MIA and front door still out of alignment but now rendered in.

Outdoor Area

A quick shot of the covered outdoor area. Increasing the width of the master bedroom by 1M directly increased the size of this area which I think was a great move. In standard form the outside area in the Grandview design is a little small in my opinion.

Rendering

After a week of nothing really happening the rendering started yesterday and is almost finished as of the end of today. There is a couple of window sills left to do and around the front door. Sent a SMS message to our SS to remind him the front door is out of alignment and I don't think it would be a good idea to render around the door until the alignment issue is sorted out. So we will see if he contacts the renderers to hold them back from rendering around the front door.

Will also be interesting to see if the carpenter makes an appearance tomorrow as he has been missing in action for about a week now (Hence why the front door is still out of alignment).