Wednesday 30 April 2014

Wall Installations & First Floor Brick Cleaned - WK 15

Week 15

Mon 14th Apr - Sun 20th Apr 2014


This week we had beautiful Melbourne weather so got to see some bits and pieces done to the home. If one were to drive by the home they would have thought nothing was done but because I have a really nice neighbor who happened to be on a two 2 week leave , he managed to see tradies come in and out and was even kind enough to take some photos for me :wink: :wink:

Heres the highlight of the week:-
- Electrical Rough Ins (Door intercom Camera wiring)
- First floor bricks cleaned
- Rendering (second coat)
- Brick control joints sealed
- Plumber - Bath and shower mixer installed
- Internal Wall installation delivered and installed
- Roof Scaffold down


Mon 14th Apr - Installation Batts delivered - Day 70
Delivery: Installations Batts ( Bradford Gold high Performance)

Accordingly to people we were given very good quality installation Batts (Bradford Gold high Performance) Apparently is one of the best you can get and this came at no additional cost to us because it was based on our 6 star energy rating report :z: :z:








No work was done on the sight besides Family Room Double power Point issue fixed.

Last week when the Electrical rough ins were done , I'd noticed the double power / Antenna point was not correctly position in the center of the wall ( we plan to wall mount a TV on this wall ). Today when we returned we notice this had been corrected. :wink: :wink:

Here is the before and after shots 









Tue 15th Apr - First Floor Bricks cleaned - Day 71
Today at about 7:50am received a courtesy call from the SS. Apparently this is the Lock Up courtesy call that you'll get. Then about 1 hour later received my "Lock Up" invoice via email..
So you guys building with Burbank, if you receive the courtesy lock-up call from SS, expect to get the LOCK up invoice moments later :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

So we are now officially at LOCK UP stage!!


We also had someone come and clean the first floor bricks.



Who said tradies dont work late???
Drove pass around 7pm (its quiet dark given daylight has ended) and notice there were two cars parked outside the house so I decided to pull up and question what they were doing? They advised they were the installation guys coming to put in the installation batts. (apparently they had 5 other jobs to do before ours today and we were there last).
They were planning to do as much as they can between 7pm - 10pm and were going to return at 6am tomorrow to complete the remainder.


Here's a photo of the guys putting up the batts. I couldn't believe it but within 15 minutes , most of the wall to my living room was done...

Lucky we have temp power hey?









** Lucky we managed to clean in between the walls before they were covered up by these batts :: ::



Wed 16th Apr - Installation complete - Day 72
It was a busy day at the house according to my neighbor today :: ::

Plumbers and Electrician returning to do last minute working and plumbing work (before plaster goes in I think.)

The Roof Scaffold was taken down and we even a man come to seal up the brick control joints


Yeap the same installation guy that was there last night return at 6:30am and by 5pm he had finished fitting the installation batts to both first and ground floor

Based on our 6 STAR energy rating report we had the following installations put in:-

- R1.0 installation batts between ground and first floors (I've been told its very rare that builders will install this) But its been installed to protect the sound barrier between the two floors.

- R2.7 batts and foil to external walls
- R2.7 to walls between garage and house
- R6.0 batts to First storey ceiling.

TIP: if you havent been provided with copy of your energy rating , its worth to get a copy of it from your builder so you know exactly what you are getting.




Thu 17th Apr - 2nd Coat of Rendering - Day 73
The Renders returned today to give the front facade a final under coat of render (total of two under coats) before the real colour goes on. He told us that he wont be back to after Easter now because he has a few other jobs to finish off due to the rain last week.


Weekly Contract Admin status update:-
SS is organizing all trades to return on sight to fix up all the issues that has been raised, Bricks were cleaned this week.



Fri 18th Apr -No WORK - Day 74
Pubic Holiday: Good Friday


Heres some photos:-

Man sealing up the brick control joints




Second undercoat of rendering




Installation batts to wall and between first/ground floor (joist)



Yes its been a busy week this week at the house and I have a feeling if we lucky we maybe seeing plaster get delivered and installed next week.

 

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