Partial Plumbing Fit Out and Floor Tiles Start

We were able to sneak out during lunch today to have a quick look at the progress since last week. Not too much done but still plodding along. The plumbers have come out and did a fit out for some of our tapware. The door handles have been installed. The tilers doing the floors have also started. Just two rows so far but hopefully they will be finished by the end of the week.

Sliding Doors for the large walk in wardrobe



Bathroom Shower



Towel Rail in Ensuite



Ensuite shower



Floor Tiles started

Our Front Door

Locked out of the house again this morning so cannot give much of an update. I do have a photo of our painted front door though. I was a bit unsure about the colour after we picked it but now that it's on I think it looks fine (other's may disagree). I feel it gives the entrance a bit of a different look to the rest of the house.

Front door



Driveway section clear in preparation for driveway

Painting Started

Went by the house this morning to grab some photos before work. The three painters where there doing their thing. Looks like they have put one coat on everything in white and were starting on the second coat for the walls. Everything is coming along nicely and the white walls and ceiling make the house look very spacious.

Leisure room with some doors ready to be painted



Steps from laundry



Garage



Master bedroom



Foyer



Front stairs

Bathroom Tiling Pics and General Update

Even though it has seemed like ages since we have been able to get in the house it has only been a week. We were able to get in this morning by going a bit later than usual. It was great to see 6 tradies on site working on our house. There were 3 concretors and 3 painters. The concretor's were finishing off the stairs as well as checking the requirements for the driveway pour in a few weeks. We were told that the painters will be putting their first coat on pretty much everything that needs to be painted.

In relation to the items that have been done since the last update, as suspected in my earlier post the bathroom tiling has been more or less complete. For some odd reason the tiler's have not done the niches yet. I assume they will knock that off when they come back to do the living area floors. The electricians have also come back and done the cut outs for the electrical fittings. They should be coming back in the next few days to do the fittings once the painters are done with their first coat.

Hope I haven't gone overboard with the photo's but a few of the updates below.

Down light cutouts over the kitchen and leisure room



Main Bathroom - Bathtub



Main Bathroom - Vanity



Main Bathroom - Shower and Niche



Ensuite - Shower and Niche



Ensuite - Vanities



Stair case - New Handrail and cutouts for footer lights



Close up of kitchen benchtop



Kitchen with benchtop installed

The bad thing about lock up.....

As the title says there is a bad side to having the house at lock up stage. That of course is not being able to get in to check the progress. Went by the house today and there were no tradies on site. Thus I could only have a look at what has been done through the windows. The good news though is that there seems to be some work quietly progressing along.

Progress since Wednesday should be the following:

• Bathroom wall tiles -the bathroom wall tiles are no longer down stairs after being delivered. Therefore I assume that the bathroom wall tiles are now done (or at least close to done).
• Side and Rear stairs - Rear stairs complete, side stairs need the landing completed
• Kitchen benchtop installed - We could see this through the window but did not get any decent pics.

Rear Stairs



Rear of the house with completed stairs



Side stairs

Bathroom Tiling Started

Had some luck again this morning with the tradies being there to let me in. This time it was the brickies that were there. Lucky that they start bright and early. They have come back to do the front and side stairs for us. This should be finished today and is one extra thing to cross off our list. I also had a chat with them about putting up a front fence for us once the driveway is done. It looks like it will be a bit cheaper than I expected which is always a plus.

In the house, the bathroom tiling has started. It was still quite dark so I couldn't get a good look at it. But from looking at the flashed photos it looks fine at first glance.

Laundry



Bathroom



Ensuite



Powder Room

Kitchen, Bathroom Vanities and Pics....Lots of Pics

Went to the house today hoping that there was someone working so that we could get in for a look. Luckily there was a plasterer working on some touch ups and areas that needed to be done since the kitchen was installed. Once again there has been a lot of progress in the past two days with the following being done:

• Kitchen Installed
• Bulkheads (I think that's what they are called) and cornices above overhead kitchen cupboards
  
• All bathroom vanities installed
• Internal and wardrobe doors installed
• Skirting and cornices complete
• Bathroom tiles delivered

Powder Room Vanity



Ensuite Vanity



Bathroom Vanity



Built in Wardrobe Doors for one of the bedrooms



View of Kitchen from Dining Room



Closer view of the corner overhead kitchen cupboards



Kitchen Island Section



Microwave Space and drawers



Garage Door fully down



Front of the house with Garage Door down



Also went out to Bunnings today. This seems to be a weekly tradition these days. We are always looking at one thing or another. After recommendations on the Home One forum and having a look on the website I wanted to go buy a redishade to see how it would look as a temporary window covering once the house is built. When I found them, they were on clearance for only $3.50 each. I decided to buy the entire remaining stock and ended up with 14 redishades for less than $50. Quite pleased with the way they look. They should do the job well while we decide on what window coverings we want.