Rain rain go away... until lockup!

MrT · Mar 28, 2008 9:15 am

Great to have all this rain in Melbourne, but am wondering about the impact on our frame and yellowtongueflooring which are sitting out getting wet every day. Is there anything I should be making sure our builders do once it stops raining? Are there warning signs I should be looking for for water damage? Very sad to see our floor sitting with pools of water all over it

Mrs B · Mar 28, 2008 9:59 pm

Hi MrT,

There is nothing you can do but wait

We are in the same situation but our frame has been out in the weather for about 2 months. We have to wait for this and this and now once the bottom story has been bricked, we have to wait for scaffolding before the roof goes on. The workers safety comes before any thing else. I am being reassured by the builder that the frame will be okay, I still fret about it however.

Mrs B

MrT · Mar 28, 2008 10:31 pm

Sounds like you're at exactly the same stage as us. We got the ground floor bricks finished labour day long weekend, then no progress since, except for rain. Scaffolding was meant to be this week, but couldn't do it because of rain. The floor must be nice and level though, as none of the massive pools of water are going anywhere...

Next week is meant to see us with the roof on, as long as it doesn't keep raining.

Good luck!

oznow · Mar 28, 2008 10:43 pm

It will go away! It will. I happened to us December last year. It went away, and now we are almost in lock up stage.

to_do_list · Mar 28, 2008 11:56 pm

I had a look at one of the websites that make this type of flooring, generally the side exposed to the elements has a shiny coat on it because, and I quote a manufacturer, "production process means floor is pressed upside down forcing resin to the surface which gives its outstanding weather durability during construction".

Translation for the period of normal construction it should be fine.

The place where you'd first see signs of deterioration would be along the joints so I'd look for swelling of the board along the join lines.

I'm no chippie but I wouldn't expect even a few months to bother the board.

MrT · Jun 24, 2008 7:13 pm

Well, after many a delay, we finally have all of our roofing on. The main part went on back in April, then we had a number of delays until some lower floor roofing (above our dining room and pantry) was finished. Now, we can finally enjoy the rain!!

And for those of you who like photos, here are some of our very narrow (6m), very long (24m), very tall (floor 1m above ground level) house.

From the street:
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/tastony/Front_with_roof.jpg

From the back yard:
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/tastony/house_back_small.jpg

Insulation is going in now, and plastering should start next week. Finally it seems like we might actually get this finished...

Paula · Jun 24, 2008 7:22 pm

Thanks for the pics!!

Glad to hear your roof is on and all is Ok.

That is a very skinny block, did you design your house?

MrT · Jun 24, 2008 7:29 pm

Block is about 10.7m wide, with the main body of the house 6m wide. It is actually a B0utique H0mes Manhattan, but lengthened from the standard 3bdrm house, and with a dining room kicked out to the boundary on one side.

They were very flexible with changing the base design, and we've added rooms, flipped the master bedroom to the other end of the house, twisted kitchen/laundry through 90 degrees etc. So, we did "design" the house to a large extent, but it is all based on a standard design, which helps with the cost (not enough though!!).