Paint and plaster

I managed to put the first coat of paint on 3 of the outside walls over the weekend. The colour is Scandanavian Grey. Looks good. The plasters continue inside with scaffold to reach the high areas. Looks like they will be out well before christmas and I hope to get the garage door in.

Plaster is here

The plaster arrived today and work will start tommorrow oon the hanging. I expect the hanging to be done by the weekend or monday then it is just let the plasterer to work on his own to do the finishing. Out by christmas ready for us to paint over the holidays.

Ready for plaster

Been busy lately with insulation and wiring. Manhole spaces are ready and all the plumbing and wiring are in. Now it is wait for the plaster. We still have the eave lining, external painting, downpipes and cleaning up to do. Took one load of rubbish to the tip and have a load of scrap steel for next weekend ready to go. Must mow the grass as well this week due to the spring growth.
Planning and pricing the kitchen and laundry cupboards as well at the moment.

Services are roughed in

The plumbers have finished roughing in, all the electrical wiring is in, the ducted vac is finished and the insulation has started going in. Plasterers are a couple of weeks away to give us a chance to ensure we have everything behind the plaster that we need. Once the plasterers start it will take about 4 weeks to finish so I will have work outside to go on with including downpipes and painting. Groundwork can be done anytime other jobs are not required.
The gas meter will end up in a better place than I thought of originally and we have wired and plumbed for a spa. Look forward to that if the money allows.

This sucks

Spent the weekend doing more wiring, finalising some timber battens and supports for plumbing fittngs and installing the ducted vacuum piping and wiring. We went to the art show on friday night and saw a great painting that might have suited the house but it is way too early to buy such things. Saturday I did all the supports for the plumbing and shower screens. This will allow for the plumber to do the rough in next week or so. Put the bath in the location and fixed the frames that support it.
Sunday was all vacuum fitting. Ran all the pipes and fittings. The AussieVac system was good,less the 600mm of pipe left over and some extra wiring that I have used for for the intercom power. Still waiting for a couple of rolls of figure 8 wiring to arrive to finish some security wiring.

Wiring weekend

SWMBO is going to Melbourne with our daughter for her birthday. Im on call so am spending the weekend running wires, data wires, security wires, camera wires, tv antenna wires, multi room audio wires, lights, fan and electrical wires. Today I have run over 1000 mtrs of wires and will do more tomorrw. No glorious pictures when running wires. It all needs to be done and it is a good weekend to do it if I don't get called into work.

holidays draw to a close

As another 2 weeks of holidays finish, I look back to see if we achieved what we wanted to acheive in the time. I would have liked to be at lock up stage. We have all the wall cladding on, the 3 swing doors in place, the garage door on order and the mounting spaces clad ready to have the door fitted. I have chossen a platerer and need to make a few calls to confirm this. We have started the kitchen process and paint selection. Bath and toilets on order.

Things not completed: Steel wall cladding and roof trims not finished, eave lining not finished, data and other wiring not finished. Inbsulation not started.

Oh well more to do later.