Day 207 - Hole in weatherboards discovered

(Sun 22/05)
I continued my perimeter clean up and various other odd jobs and in doing so, discovered a hole and several nails protruding through the weatherboards above the Guest Ensuite downstairs. Looks like when the framers were 'blocking out' that they went a bit crazy in that area. It will have to be patched or preferably the weatherboard replaced and repainted. I will add this one the the Builder's Defect List to be dealt with later as there  is too much on his mind as it is at present.

Not a great pic but hole in corner near stairwell window

Day 206 - Portico roof done.....almost!

(Sat 21/05)
I started early and continued my perimeter clean up and fixed the coax where the sparky drilled through it.
I was amazed to see the roofer turn up today and finish off the ridge cap & flashings on the Garage roof and nearly finish off the roofing of the Portico. I say nearly, as they ordered the wrong flashings again! They still have to come back to do 2 flashings - unbelievable. At least there is a roof keeping the weather off the front door now.

Coax join - not ideal but I'll get over it!

Portico roof nearly done!

Looking good

Day 205 - Plaster battens started

(Fri 20/05)
Sparky's continued their cable runs and mounting etc.
Plasterer started with his gang installing the steel ceiling battens. In the past, I have not had much joy from steel battens as they can creak and squeak due to temperature changes and installation issues on a 2 storey home. I guess we'll see how we go. They couldn't finish the battens as apparently the framing is incomplete in a few areas? This came as news to me.

I started the cleanup of mortar overspill around the perimeter of the house and dug out the bent conduit for repair.

Ducted vacuum system was supposed to be installed today. They didn't turn up.

Before clean up

 

After clean up

 

Steel Plaster Battens
 

 Steel Plaster Battens

Day 204 - Meeting on-site with Sparky

(Thur 19/05)
I met up with electrician on-site this morning and handed over my amended electrical plan and we went through it in detail over the next 1.5hrs. I also brought along some of the supplied lighting/sensors I will be getting him to install. Basically, we are supplying all the light fittings except the downlights. I was going to supply these but he doesn't want to use 12v ones I was going to supply. He uses the 240v type. We are also supplying 18x GPOs, which I acquired from my brother-in-law which will be used downstairs only. I will be changing over, after handover, the switches downstairs to Clipsal Saturn Push-button LED type in Ocean Mist.

Day 203 - New flashings delivered.....but

(Wed 18/05)
New flashings and ridge caps were delivered today for supposed completion of flashing/roofing. Let's see how they go this time.

I moved 400-450 bricks down to the backyard. (I would hate to be a brickie!)

Builder brought his truck along with 2 of his lads and got rid of all the rubbish at the front of the site.

 My brick stacking effort

Day 202 - Plumbers return & Cabling Completed ;)

(Tue 17/05)
Plumbers, builder and myself met up and I brought along all the fittings I am providing so the plumbers could fit the shower/bath mixers etc.
They also fitted the spa-pump internally, which made sense. I will just pack some acoustic insulation in the walls to dull down the noise.
Now cabling is completed, there is a total of 24x Cat6 cable points, 15x RG6 Coax F-Type points and 2x RJ12 telephone in sockets. I have pre-wired for Telstra & Optus both with Cat6 (phone) and RG6 (Cable TV)
A Grand total of 39 Cable runs plus the Digital TV Aerial, the longest run being 24mt (x4 runs)
I used a total of 418mt of Cat6 Cable and 268mt of RG6-Quadshield Coax Cable!

Cable run back to Cable Ladder in under-stairwell void

Cable Ladder with Telstra & Optus cables on LHS

Rear of Cable Ladder

Shower mixers fitted

Day 200 & 201 - Cabling

(Sun 15th & Mon 16th May)
Still cabling but getting there. I have made a few changes along the way (because I could!)

Living room cabling/conduit detail

L to R - Subwoofer, 4xSpeakers, 40mm Conduit, 4xRG6 & 2xCat6