Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 101Oct 13, 2017 2:39 pm Judging by the conditions at my work today, don't think they'll be doing much bricking, lol. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 102Oct 13, 2017 9:54 pm Wow I just saw that the rains had hit up there. We have had such a yucky sticky day. If we get the predicted 300mm I don't think we will see much happening either Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 103Oct 13, 2017 10:15 pm Yeah we copped it pretty bad. Lightening was amazing though. They got a fair bit of bricking done though before it hit. No photos tonight, it was too miserable when i got home. The brickie rang me this arv though and asked me to check that none of the mortar got washed down the bricks, cause if it had he would come out tomorrow to acid wash it off and repair the mortar. It was all fine anyway, but nice to know that he takes so much pride in his work. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 104Oct 13, 2017 10:17 pm That is a rarity to find someone who takes pride in their work Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 106Oct 15, 2017 7:23 pm How are you fairing up there? We hit the highest rainfall total for all of Brisbane. Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 107Oct 15, 2017 7:51 pm Hey. Yeah, it's been raining pretty steady all day. Our 10000l tank that we're living off has been running out of the overflow all over the ground all day. We have had no power since 3 this arv, which means no pump, which means no running water. Luckily we thought to put a big container under one of the gutters on the house to catch water for drinking, cooking and toilet flushing. Heading to the inlaws tonight for showers. We're pretty set up to run off grid with our van anyway, so have gas and 12v for cooking and lighting. They are predicting up to 500ml tomorrow. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 108Oct 15, 2017 7:53 pm KatrinaH Hey. Yeah, it's been raining pretty steady all day. Our 10000l tank that we're living off has been running out of the overflow all over the ground all day. We have had no power since 3 this arv, which means no pump, which means no running water. Luckily we thought to put a big container under one of the gutters on the house to catch water for drinking, cooking and toilet flushing. Heading to the inlaws tonight for showers. We're pretty set up to run off grid with our van anyway, so have gas and 12v for cooking and lighting. They are predicting up to 500ml tomorrow. Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 109Oct 18, 2017 6:40 pm Nothing exciting to report with this crappy weather still hanging around. The bricks are still on hold, but the electrician was here today starting his rough in, so we met with him this arv to go through lights and power points. Really happy with everything, hopefully we've come in under our allowance, he seems to think it will be fine. He's not adding our bathroom pendant lights to the plan, he said if we supply them he chuck them in as a freebie. We already knew he was going to be really lovely, by chance his dad was the electrical contractor we got to put in our power pole and run the power up to the shed and wire all the shed up for us, and he is an absolutely top bloke. He even dug some fence post holes for us while he was here with his auger for the power pole. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 110Oct 20, 2017 7:16 pm Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 111Oct 20, 2017 7:19 pm KatrinaH Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 112Oct 20, 2017 7:23 pm H Family KatrinaH Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 113Oct 20, 2017 7:28 pm KatrinaH H Family KatrinaH Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 114Oct 20, 2017 7:34 pm H Family KatrinaH H Family [quote="KatrinaH"]Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ [/quote]Holy heck, I'm glad we don't have gyprock yet, we haven't finished the insulation yet. And hubby has a workplace injury now and will be out of action for atleast a week or so, so busy weekend for me trying to finish it off myself, lol. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 115Oct 20, 2017 7:40 pm KatrinaH H Family KatrinaH [quote="H Family"][quote="KatrinaH"]Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ [/quote]Holy heck, I'm glad we don't have gyprock yet, we haven't finished the insulation yet. And hubby has a workplace injury now and will be out of action for atleast a week or so, so busy weekend for me trying to finish it off myself, lol. [/quote]I was very surprised when Hubby rang and said it was plastered. Apparently they have cancelled the rain for the weekend in Brissie so I hope I misses you too. Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 116Oct 20, 2017 7:41 pm H Family KatrinaH H Family [quote="KatrinaH"][quote="H Family"][quote="KatrinaH"]Electrical rough in got finished yesterday. Brickies finally managed to get back today and continue on after nearly a whole week of rain. Apparently our site is one of the least muddy, so easiest to work on at the moment, yay for shaley soil, lol. Have little faith left in a pre Christmas handover now, more rain coming tomorrow. The bricks look very brown in the afternoon sun, but they're eclipse, and as black as the ace of spades. 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ [/quote]Holy heck, I'm glad we don't have gyprock yet, we haven't finished the insulation yet. And hubby has a workplace injury now and will be out of action for atleast a week or so, so busy weekend for me trying to finish it off myself, lol. [/quote]I was very surprised when Hubby rang and said it was plastered. Apparently they have cancelled the rain for the weekend in Brissie so I hope I misses you too. [/quote]Oh, i hadn't heard that, been flat out at work. That would be awesome if it stays clear here. I need to get some washing done, and my laundry is kinda "open air", lol. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 117Oct 21, 2017 9:47 pm Well the weather has been unkind to us again today. I'm so over it. Kinda ironic that when we bought this block, everyone we told kept saying oh, it's really dry out there, doesn't get much rain. Yeah cow manure, feels like all it's done is rain since we got here. On a positive note, we didn't lose power in today's storm. But we did have the electrician wire a provision for a generator into the power box. So I suppose that's a positive outcome of living out here during the build, had we not been here and had 2 blackouts in 6 weeks, we'd never have thought to do that. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 118Oct 21, 2017 9:50 pm KatrinaH Well the weather has been unkind to us again today. I'm so over it. Kinda ironic that when we bought this block, everyone we told kept saying oh, it's really dry out there, doesn't get much rain. Yeah cow manure, feels like all it's done is rain since we got here. On a positive note, we didn't lose power in today's storm. But we did have the electrician wire a provision for a generator into the power box. So I suppose that's a positive outcome of living out here during the build, had we not been here and had 2 blackouts in 6 weeks, we'd never have thought to do that. Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 119Oct 21, 2017 9:57 pm H Family KatrinaH Well the weather has been unkind to us again today. I'm so over it. Kinda ironic that when we bought this block, everyone we told kept saying oh, it's really dry out there, doesn't get much rain. Yeah cow manure, feels like all it's done is rain since we got here. On a positive note, we didn't lose power in today's storm. But we did have the electrician wire a provision for a generator into the power box. So I suppose that's a positive outcome of living out here during the build, had we not been here and had 2 blackouts in 6 weeks, we'd never have thought to do that. Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie 120Oct 21, 2017 10:01 pm KatrinaH H Family KatrinaH Well the weather has been unkind to us again today. I'm so over it. Kinda ironic that when we bought this block, everyone we told kept saying oh, it's really dry out there, doesn't get much rain. Yeah cow manure, feels like all it's done is rain since we got here. On a positive note, we didn't lose power in today's storm. But we did have the electrician wire a provision for a generator into the power box. So I suppose that's a positive outcome of living out here during the build, had we not been here and had 2 blackouts in 6 weeks, we'd never have thought to do that. Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 8 2234 The plan is to demolisgh the home, earthworks to prepare for slab, and then removal of existing wall for a new one. Requires a DA unfortunatley as the new wall will be… 6 21669 If you are in Victoria you have a statutory right to your own building inspector regardless of builder's consent. No negotiations are required. However the builder will… 1 1408 |