Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our Cottage Block Build North of the River, Perth WA 248Feb 04, 2013 9:22 pm Jen Building with HomeGroupWA (started as Scott Park Homes ) - Grand Wisteria Check out my Build Thread!! Time line on P1. Re: Our Cottage Block Build North of the River, Perth WA 258Feb 19, 2013 9:47 pm Oh John, I can feel your triumph with that drill!!! Did you feel a little naughty not asking anyones permission?? I know we will lol! I LOVE your kitchen, and I adore that splash back!! I am regretfully wishing we had of gone for a glass splashback instead of the tiles. Hmmm, wonder if its too late to change... Can't wait to see some more pictures. Congratulations again to you and your wife, I am living through you guys for a while yet! Cheers Sam Our first home... viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60460 Land Dep paid 26/2/12 Site cleared7/12/12 Slab 20/12/12 Frame 25/1/13 Bricks 19/2/13 Re: Our Cottage Block Build North of the River, Perth WA 259Feb 19, 2013 10:45 pm Waiting for update and pics JohnD. My guess is you don't have time or Internet connection at this point. Will continue to wait Re: Our Cottage Block Build North of the River, Perth WA 260Feb 20, 2013 7:34 am The DW and I are shattereds emotionally as well as physically after the move, how anyone can accumulate so much cr*p in a few years is beyond me. This was our 4th move in 5 years so I thought it would have been the easiest....NOT. But then again we are two years older and I was stupid enough to think that we can save money on the removalists (they charge by the hour)by hiring a trailer and moving the easy items to the house ourselves, its only 2 kms away from the rent house so what can go wrong?? Well 40 degree heat for one, its no fun carrying boxes and stuff around in that kind of heat and we paid the price. A week earlier "Mr I'll do it myself" (me) thought it would be easy to dig a nine metre long, 500mm deep trench for the retic conduit pipe which will go under some paving that was to be laid the next day. The heat was 40 + and I had forgotten to take some water with me, the end result was heat exhaustion complete with dehydration, I felt that effect for quite a few days afterwards. The moral of these stories seems to be that its a wise thing to leave these jobs to the professionals but on past history, I am unlikely to heed my own advice!! Moving from a 4x2 with extra lounge room to a 3x2 with no extra lounge poses as many problems as trying to fit two litres into a litre container, there is stuff everywhere with no where to put it. Thank Heavens for Gumtree. At the moment I am busy assembling "flat pack" cupboads for the laundry and will attempt to put a storage floor in the ceiling void (see..I told you I dont take my own advice), hope that this will solve some of our storage issues. We have ordered some "Plantation Shutters" for the front windows and once these have been installed I will post some piccies. In the interim, I bought some $18 plastic venetians from Bunnings and cut them to fit with a hacksaw, crude but effective and they actually dont look too bad. The long one sags a bit in the middle as I didnt want to drill more holes than necessary but they will do for the time being. All in all, we love the house and the choices we made, so far the laminate floor (Quick Step Colonial Blackbutt) is a pleasure and I defy any ordinary person to tell the difference between this and real wood. Of course now that we are in the house we have found a few things that we should have thought of while the house was still in the design stage, some of these are mentioned in detail above, but the simplest ones are not to put the light switches for the WIR on the inside of the WIR as this can interfere with any fitted cupboards you may want to install in the WIR. Similarly, if you have a small laundry, have the light switch in the passage outside the laundry, in our case it interferes with the broom cupboard I am assembling and I will have to get it moved to the other side of the wall. One of the things I am most excited about is that our suburb is on a fibre optic comms sytem that Telstra decided not to support, I was dreading having to change my email address and purchase a new modem/gateway but I managed to reconfigure my Bigpond modem from ADSL to Broadband and Bigpond now allows anyone to keep their email addresses so I am a happy man and nothing has changed from that aspect except everything is a lot quicker with the fibre optic system. This is it now...no more moving, Ever!!!! Hi All New to the forum and looking for some advice, has anyone else renovated an old miners cottage in or around Ballarat and been able to identify the flooring? We… 0 8767 Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. In my opinion you dont need to replace or paint the roof other than treat surface rust… 1 10206 i thought the flipped plan initially but bec i want narrow pathway from entry to dining (dont like bend), also cannot fit the… 7 17278 |