The Building of Our New Home: Stage II: Frame Stage

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Various Services Added In (Water, Electrical, Gas)

Posted by Haywire

Electrical brackets installed to guide wiring.

Wiring to electrical services - power to lighting mostly.

Master bedroom - showing electrical wiring, hot/cold water piping (black) in the Ensuite.

Central heating vents in the ceiling.

Kitchen / Living area

Another angle of the Living area. Facing out towards the Alfresco, left is Kitchen, front is Dining before the doors leading out and where I'm standing is where the Living area will be.

Hot/Cold water services on the Kitchen floor where the sink will be connected to.

Hot/Cold water services to "His" and "Her" basins in Ensuite.

Dining area

Common Bathroom shared by the two Guest Rooms.

Hot/Cold water connections to ENS shower.

Standing in Laundry room facing the Common Bathroom.

Waiting to be connected at the final stages before hand-over.

Kitchen ceiling area.

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Rendered Front Completed!

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Rendered portion painted with Dulux Limed White (Half).

The other side where the fuse box is installed. And the Builder's son, Marcus, doing a quick inspection for us. Well done, Marcus!

Another angle.

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We're gettin' there!

Posted by Haywire

As you can see here, the inner wall of the garage has the brown side of the brick. Turned out better than I expected as I was a tad skeptical about how it'll look upon completion. Not too bad!

Clean bricks on the East wall of the house where the Laundry door opens to (behind the rear of the garage access).

Rear access from garage.

Alfresco area all bricked up.

Full view of alfresco at the rear of the house.

Another angle...

You can see the noticeable difference between cleaned bricks (right) and uncleaned ones (left). Beautiful!!!

Close up...

Taa-daaa....! Front of the house being rendered.

Fully rendered concrete front, waiting to be cured and set and then painted.

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Bricking Continues

Posted by Haywire

As you can see, these bricks I got have one side brown, the "face" side is blue and the sides are blue.

The brown side is exposed on the inside wall of the garage.... Hmmmm....

Brickies work around the house.

And the back...

And the side behind the rear access from the garage...

All over....

Almost there!

We have used cheap bricks (to save cost) on the front bit of the house where we are rendering concrete...

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Up Goes the Brickz!!!

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Hi-ho... hi-ho... it's off to work we go....

Lining up the Garage wall

Brickies get on the way on the garage wall.

Laying the wall to the front door.

Corner piece adjoining the garage wall to the front entry.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Beautiful Boral "Victorian Blue" Bricks! The color is just on the outside of the bricks... which means, the brickies better not chip the face of the bricks! The other side of the bricks are actually brown...