Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 42: Prep for slab DONE - pour tomorrow! 61Feb 03, 2010 8:00 am Well...? Is there a slab? Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 42: Prep for slab DONE - pour tomorrow! 62Feb 03, 2010 10:44 pm deletedpenguin Well...? Is there a slab? oooooooooooooooooooooooo yes Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Saw them starting the pour around 8am, then had to leave to go to work. Massive bit of concrete sitting there on our land, taking up all the space - at least that's what it looks like! Bigger pics and commentary on the blog. Apparently the frame will be done within 2 weeks T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 43: SLABALICIOUS! Mmmm...concrete :) 63Feb 04, 2010 7:59 am Big congrats! Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 43: SLABALICIOUS! Mmmm...concrete :) 64Feb 04, 2010 6:54 pm Thanks things are getting real exciting now! Slab day +1, and they've already put on the termite protection and delivered some wood for the frame! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 43: SLABALICIOUS! Mmmm...concrete :) 65Feb 04, 2010 7:41 pm Wow, things are off with a bang! They're wasting no time. Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 48: Framing commenced! 66Feb 08, 2010 7:32 pm Day 48: Framing commenced in 34degree heat! Maybe 1/2 or so of ground floor kind of done? I think they've only allow for regular doors instead of the taller doors we've optioned, will meet SS tomorrow afternoon to check on that. More pics & commentary on the blog. View from front Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ My home theatre room Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Powder room, laundry, walk in linen & pantry, kitchen, meals Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 48: Framing commenced! 67Feb 08, 2010 7:49 pm How exciting is it to start to see the house actually take shape! Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 48: Framing commenced! 68Feb 09, 2010 7:17 pm deletedpenguin How exciting is it to start to see the house actually take shape! yup - and it's even better today, because the ground floor was finished and we could walk through all the rooms! Carpenters hadn't put in taller doorframes, so I spoke to them and they fixed most of it up before they went home for the day. Met our SS this afternoon, quite a helpful guy and addressed our concerns easily. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 48: Framing commenced! 69Feb 09, 2010 7:31 pm slknv deletedpenguin How exciting is it to start to see the house actually take shape! yup - and it's even better today, because the ground floor was finished and we could walk through all the rooms! Carpenters hadn't put in taller doorframes, so I spoke to them and they fixed most of it up before they went home for the day. Met our SS this afternoon, quite a helpful guy and addressed our concerns easily. T&T Awesome. I'm amazed too, that the door frame heights were so easy to correct. That's gotta feel nice. Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos Re: Metr1con Nolan Day 51: Trusses mostly complete! 70Feb 11, 2010 6:18 pm Day 51 (slab day +8) and trusses are mostly done. Did anyone else get wiped out by the storms today? Lost power to my work, traffic jams, lights out, roads closed, accidents everywhere. Fortunately our chippies got the trusses done by about lunch! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hopefully the rains continue all evening and night, and no rain tomorrow morning so the chippies can get back on the job! Frame should be complete in a couple of weeks. T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr1con Nolan d62: Can we ask this noggin to be replaced? 71Feb 22, 2010 9:09 pm Pretty much all the framing has been done, and the roof is due on sometime this week. So with a frame inspection coming up, trying to figure out what's acceptable and what's not. For example, is this OK? There's a 10mm gap between the noggin and the stud on the right. If it's not acceptable, we'll flag this one and others like it at frame inspection. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ There's also a few noggins hanging totally loose we'll get fixed, and a preplaster inspection should hopefully pick up anything else. T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr1con Nolan d62: Can we ask this noggin to be replaced? 72Feb 22, 2010 9:24 pm Hmm...yeah I don't think 10mm is appropriate - especially when it looks like that. I could be wrong, but I'd have to assume the tradie just was lazy and didn't come back to fix that. Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos Re: M3tr!con Nolan day 65: Roof is on and windows/doors ready! 73Feb 25, 2010 7:39 pm Roof delivered and installed today! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also delivered all the windows and external doors for installation tomorrow. We just got a new construction CSC but there's certainly no slackening off, if anything things are moving faster now! Windows & doors should be in tomorrow (and they'll fix up the wrong door heights internally too I think) and gutter/fascia to be done early next week. T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: M3tr!con Nolan day 86: Bricking commenced! 74Mar 18, 2010 10:34 pm Bricking started today - wasn't meant to be until next week! Frame inspection issues from 2 days ago mostly rectified today. Happy with progress of everything so far. Front doorframe and temp door put on today Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Quite a bit of bricking done around the home theatre room and down one side. Flush off-white mortar shold dry out and lighten up over the next few days we hope! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Nolan Day 100: Half bricked, heating installed 75Apr 01, 2010 9:19 pm Just in time for the easter break... scaffolding went up this week, wrapping is finished, ground floor is bricked, garage mostly done except for the roof, heating unit & ducts went in today as well. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hoping to be at lockup by end of April? T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Nolan Day 100: Facades 76Apr 06, 2010 10:27 am For aussiechik; examples of facades. We started off on Kingston, but changed to Chateau because it's a little more interesting with the weatherboard cladding, and it suits our established street a bit better. You also get a bigger master bedroom with Chateau facade too. Nolan Kingston - rendered balcony, standard brickwork to the rest of facade. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Not a Nolan, but a Riva with Chateau facade (house design is narrower), pretty similar. Weatherboad cladding to first floor facade, and we're doing the rendered balcony. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Nolan Day 126: Lockup stage complete! 77Apr 27, 2010 5:07 pm Scaffolding taken down this morning, and lockup stage is done pretty much as predicted, end of April. Wonder when we'll be completed then? Getting our independent inspection done next week too. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ T&T Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Nolan Day 139: Preplaster Inspection - oh noes! 78May 10, 2010 10:35 pm So we organised our preplaster/lockup inspection today - and of course, the plasterers decided to start early, just to annoy us! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Anyway our inspector found 18 items the need attention; more pics on our blog http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com/ 1) Garage internal access door - gap between the bricks and frame. Easy - timber infill or similar to fix. 2) Some bricks on the garage slab stained from brick cleaners acid. Easy - just need recleaning. 3) Garage boundary brickwork substantially overhanging slab. Medium-Hard - need an engineer to design a rectification solution to support the brickwork. 4) Holes in mortar around the house. Easy -just needs new mortar added. 5) Perpends in alfresco piers over tolerance. Easy (apparently.) Tina says it's a minor cosmetic issue. 6) Timber quads to be installed around afresco beams. Easy -again, a cosmetic issue. 7) Timber infill needed over alfresco door/window. Easy. 8 ) Powder room window damaged along top edge. Easy (apparently), Monique will get that fixed. 9) Render splatters on brickwork to be cleaned. Easy. 10) Brickwork short of entry frame. Medium - needs door frame adjustment, or infill to match doorframe. 11) Kitchen bulkheads (not load bearing) are in contact with floor joists, need to have a clearance between these two. Medium-Hard -not sure how this can be fixed? 12) Sewer waste pipe (from upstairs toilet) cuts through top of Smart Joist truss - not allowed. Hard? I googled the manufacturers data, and apparently they need a photo and description of the damage to the joist so they can say what needs to be done to fix it. A similar situation was seen with the ensuite shower waste cutting through the joist, and a new beam was fixed adjacent to that, so I suspect a similar fix is needed. 13) Heating ducts are installed through a number of joists, with the holes beyond the maximum size allowed for these joists. Hard? Maybe needs reinforcement of joists where the holes have been cut. Alex only noticed the heating ducts in the family room, but there are a number of other heating ducts through the ground floor which have also been cut through joists, and would need similar rectification. (Of course, to fix all these things the ceiling will have to be pulled off, the rectifications done, and ceiling replastered. Not our fault the plasterers started early!) 14) Tension bracing not adequately fixed to top & bottom plates. Easy - Hard? Monique reckons they're to manufacturers spec, so we'll see what the documentation says. 15) Ply brace in kitchen not nailed in. Easy - just nail in some more nails! 16) Lintels missing over openings in non load-bearing walls (doorways, robes etc). Medium - Hard. Because the plastering is mostly done upstairs, the plaster needs to be removed, lintels installed and replastered. See why the plasterers shouldn't have been booked until the result of our independent inspection? 17) Noggin missing in kitchen wall. Medium. Remove plaster, add noggin, replaster. Sigh... would've been easier... if the plaster wasn't put up early! Spot a trend here? 18) Floor waste to laundry in wrong spot. Medium. Move floor waste, get engineer to approve modification to slab and termite protection is intact. Inspector recommends viewing proof all this has been done (eg engineer's report) which is a good idea. Knockdown and rebuild - building Metr1con Nolan 41 (43) @ http://tim-and-tina.blogspot.com! http://www.verdantdental.com.au Re: Metr!con Nolan Day 139: Preplaster Inspection - oh noes! 79May 11, 2010 12:00 pm Wow that is some list of defects. If I were you I would be asking the SS why hasn't he picked up on at least some of these issues. Other than that, your house seems to be coming along in leaps and bounds. I can only hope that when our house starts in 2 weeks time that it will go up as quickly . Building the Grandview 36 with M$tric0n Plans approved 15/4/2010 Site start date 21/5/2010 Our build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32825&p=461266#p461266 Re: Metr!con Nolan Day 139: Preplaster Inspection - oh noes! 80May 11, 2010 12:07 pm Amazing. You'd think these would be easier to spot (at least some of these issues). Can't understand why it was missed. Best of luck getting these issues resolved. Stefan Building the M3tr!con Liberty 42 at Stonecutters Ridge. The New Build Blog - "Life, In Progress." Stonecutters Ridge Community Website | My photos I have motorised roller blinds in my house. I motorised all the blinds I use a lot and the ones that don’t get used too often I didn’t. I went through Motorise My… 2 7786 |