Our lovely, old home, full of character, but way to small
a sad and happy day
Clarendon come in and level our block – 22.1.14
Piering work complete – 29.1.14
Internal Drainage and Formwork – 30-31.1 14
Pods and Steel – 1.2.14
Slab -4.2.14
This is where it starts to get exciting !!!!
First floor frame – 17.2.14
Second floor frame – 20.2.14
front view
side view
24.2.14 -First walk through 🙂 windows delivered
3.3.14 – after a few days rain we now have roof trusses, windows and bricks ready to go.
5.3.14 – First 20 rows of bricks laid on western side, Things are starting to take shape now. Very happy with our brick choice.
6.3.14 – eastern side and back wall bricked
7.3.14 – alfresco piers bricked
Somewhere in the last couple of days internal plumbing and gas has been installed
10.3.14 – scaffolding up!
12.03.14 – progress with brickwork
20.03.2014 – brickwork completed
24.03.2014 – Brickwork cleaned
01.04.2014 – roof tiles to top floor complete, also notice gutters and fascia
03.04.2014 – Rendering done
16.04.2014 – Progress Update
Well as of today, eaves and cladding painted and second story scaffolding has been taken down. There has been some issue with the installation so the flashing under a couple of the windows, so as you can see widows are missing and cladding not complete to the front and side of house. They better fix this up ASAP, getting annoyed here.. Our build has slowed down due to the rain and the fact that Clarendon are busy and running behind. However I am very happy with my colour selection and the painters have done a great job. Obviously Render gets done at a later date. The scaffolders have been back to erect the trusses over the alfresco and dining room, so hopefully all my tiling will be complete after Easter. Soon we will be ready for a site inspection and I am going over it with a fine tooth comb as I am not 100% happy with the brickwork.
24.04.14 – Flashing redone, windows back in, lined and ready for clad. First floor roof tiles, eaves etc underway. Alfresco roof tiles almost complete. Looks like it takes up the whole block, but we do however still have a little bit of back and side yard.
3.5.2014 – Massive progress. Today I had an onsite meeting with our site supervisor for pre lining inspection. I arrived at 8 am and the gyprock team were onsite ready to go. We went over everything to check that all was in place, and he was excellent in explaining everything to me as we went along. I am fortunate to have an excellent Site supervisor that is highly organised. I went back to the house later that afternoon and the whole place had been lined with Gyprock. I am so impressed with the workmanship and speed of the internal linings. Stairs are booked in for the 10th. Most of the scaffolding has come down and they are still to complete the cladding to the front corner of the home which will be done this week. Considering the amount of wet weather we have had, to get to gyprock stage in about 15 weeks is fantastic. They say about 10-12 weeks from Gyprock, so we are over half way, YAY!
17.05.14 – Today we went and had a sneaky look at progress, stairs are in cornice is up and temporary lock up doors are on the front of the home. Still some external paint to go on, all internal doors and architrave has been delivered. Cavity sliders have been fitted although the one on the WIP has the wrong glass in it. I have emailed my SS about this. It’s looking pretty good, bricks will need another clean as some touch ups have been done.
21.05.14 – been doing AM drivebys to see if any action is happening, I noticed a man inside doing more waterproofing to the bathrooms, and other utes have been there but can’t tell what they are doing. Stacker doors have been fitted today so we are totally locked up. I will post what I can see through windows as we progress. Tiler is supposed to be starting tomorrow, but things never happen according to our weekly phone call from our SS, but they do happen eventually. We still have not had our sewer connected but that will also happen…. Eventually! While we have been waiting on the external doors to go on, a cat has made himself at home in my theatre room and pooped all over the floor, it smells bad too! We have been told kitchen arrives on the 23rd.
23.05.14 – well, today has been a busy day at site, kitchen and bathroom vanities installed, internal doors hung yesterday, they actually put the wrong cavity slider on my WIP, a clear glass door went on when I ordered translucent. This is being changed. First coat of paint on (undercoat yesterday) front Door delivered, gas and electricity connected. Holes cut for electrical outlets. Remainder of down pipes painted. We are moving along nicely now 🙂
24.05.14 – tiles delivered ready for tomorrow appointment with tiler onsite
07.06.2014
Curtain fabric and more pics of bathrooms and bench tops, we chose round basis, as I find the square ones to shallow and I think they round ones are easier to clean, and the house has 5 basins so that was important!
21.06.14 – getting closer…
23. 06.2014 – house cleaned, bathrooms done, feature walls done… God bless my six year old daughter for choosing that hideous pink feature wall for her bedroom, we will have fun covering that up when she grows out of it. Could not grab a pic of the downstairs bathroom as there was a tradie working away.
2.07.14 – PCI day – place is a bit messy again but will be cleaned again after touch ups have been done
Our First Home Build 
Hi this is Thasa & Florina, we are closely watching your progress as we are now demolishing our house… it is good to have some progression guide for us to cross references, thank you for your updates….. Good luck.
Thank you and good luck!
Hi looking good. It’s very exciting isn’t it! We are still at the same stage with our insulation being done tomorrow and the plasterer starting Friday (we hope!)
Very exciting now, stair case in and lock up tomorrow. We will be in our new homes before we know it now 🙂
wow your house looks amazing & its gone quick too.We are very early stages of building with clarendon
Thank you, yes I am very pleased with it all. Where are you building? Good luck and I hope it all runs smoothly 🙂
Looks great. Following your place closely as we are just behind you. Good to know what comes next. Our tiler has been extremely slow, now nearly 3wks as we don’t have a tiled floor! Love your colours too. Very exciting isn’t it!
Thank you Kath, yes I checked out your blog today as I thought you must be nearing completion also. Your home is looking very nice and it’s great to see it moving along. My tilers were in for about two weeks on and off. In my case I think Clarendon want to get as many invoices as they can paid by June 30, it seems that all my work will be finalised by then. Good luck with the remainder of the work, keep posting pics, would love to see the finished product. It is so very exciting, I am always onsite, I think I’ve been there more than my supervisor and the tradies are always cool with letting me go in.. Hence all the pics on my blog.