Timber floors & stairs 14/6/13

The solid timber spotted gum wideboards look great. These needed to be put in before the skirting boards and will be sanded and polished towards the end of the build.  Stairs are currently covered for protection.  Really happy with the amount of storage we have underneath the stairs.

Plastering finished 7/6/13

Plaster hung in a day! 1/6/13

A huge team of workers spent the whole day Saturday hanging the plasterboard for the whole house.  It's really starting to look like a house inside now!

Ground floor render base coat completed 30/5/13

We are having routing done on the front projection as several CG homes do.  We understand the colour render downstairs is finished later to avoid damage whilst works still progressing on site.

Lock up 23/5/13

Hebel finished. Ground floor still to be finished with render and lining board upstairs will be painted later.

Insulation installed.  We also decided to add soundscreen insulation between floors.  Hopefully it will be worth the expense! Electrical fit out completed and AV cables installed. 

Upstairs hebel continues 20/4/13

Upper roof has been completed and upstairs hebel continues.  The upstairs will be colour rendered before the scaffolding comes down.  Plumbing and gas rough in have also been completed.

There has rarely been a day with no one on site - making great progress! No major problems to date, just small issues to nut out.  Really happy with the colour of the roof and the look of our custom facade.

Hebel commences 11/4/13

Ground floor hebel installed first

Frame completed 27/3/13

Frame start 13/3/13

Imagine our surprise to see the framing starting the day after the slab was poured! These guys really fly once they start.  It's exciting to see the actual sizes of rooms and layout after months of looking at plans!

Slab pour 12/3/13

Site Start 28/2/13

Waffle slab with blade piles

Pool installed 22/2/13

We were very excited to see the pool go in! We chose Narellan Pools and couldn't have been happier with them.  Excellent communication and efficiency! The hole was dug and the pool shell put in on the same day. Having the pool put in before the house has saved money on craning fees and avoided lots of mess later. The pool was then plumbed and filled with water. Next the concrete beam was poured and the hard cover put in place.  Once the house is completed Narellan will return to install the solar, connect the plumbing and power and clean up the pool to use.  The water should look almost translucent blue - not the green untreated tap water colour above!

Demolition

CG arranged 3 quotes for us and we independently arranged another 2.  We ended up choosing one of the CG arranged quotes as they were able to also remove a very large tree.  The communication from this company was very average and we were frustrated that we were not able to determine when our demolition was going to occur.  We had all our services abolished within a 2 week time frame but were left waiting for a demolition date.  We had to reschedule our pool dig twice because of this.  After many months of planning we were keen to get to site! In the end we lost a couple of weeks which adds to extra rental costs.  The actual demolition work was excellent however and took approximately 1 week.  We did sell the kitchen oven and dishwasher otherwise left the house intact.  We had extra asbestos located during the demolition which meant increased costs.  Interestingly nothing (timber etc) seemed to get stripped or separated out on site.