Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum 1 Nov 20, 2013 3:59 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 2Dec 26, 2013 7:26 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 3Apr 02, 2014 9:54 am Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 5Apr 02, 2014 12:53 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 7May 10, 2014 5:07 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 8Jun 14, 2014 3:07 pm Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 10Jun 27, 2014 1:50 pm Would love to see some photos Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 11Jun 27, 2014 4:59 pm Just added some photos to the blog, albeit just two new'ish ones of the roof. I must take some more and add them there too. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 12Aug 13, 2014 11:22 pm We now have bricks !! .. woo hoo ! Got the Termimesh guy in the other day after the brickie did the first course. Our problem now is that the brickie won't brick up the rest of the house until the door frames are in, as the issue is that they don't want to end up with gaps between the bricks and the door frames, and I think it is good that they stated this before I started asking questions as to why haven't they finished yet! Anyway, I went and got some door frames for all the outside doors, and called the chippies to do them, and they don't want to install the frames without the doors. I'd rather have someone to blame for ill-fitting doors, than doing them myself, at least the outside doors. The catch is now that I only ordered the doors last week when I got the bricks in, and the catch is one of the doors is a pivot door, and Hume apparently make these only on an order being placed, and there's a 4 week wait for delivery! Where the other special order doors are 10 working days i.e. 2 weeks, and this week effectively has 2 non-working days in it due to Ekka and local show days. That said, it's going to be about a month before we can get the placed bricked up. Although I'm going to see if I can get the other external doors picked up and installed sooner, so that I can get some of the house bricked up sooner. The wonders of owner building, you only find out these things after you really need to know! Still having 'dramas' with the 'neighbours from hell'.... latest from them is a complaint to workplace health and safety against the roofer.... apparently they got his details from the rubbish pile on our place. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 14Aug 14, 2014 12:27 am AKB Bugger about your neighbours BPratt yay re Bricks though Yes, it's great to see the bricks there, but it's going to be a while before they all go on the house though. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 16Aug 14, 2014 10:16 am I think a bit of both, with some paranoia thrown in for good measure. She is in the health sector, as in occupational therapist at the local hospital, i.e. not a medical professional, who believes that amateur radio is satan's spawn, yet yacking on a mobile phone is totally safe because everyone does it. Who claims that because there's be no medical studies done on the effect of amateur radio, there's no proof that it is safe from the EMR, yet ignores the fact that the large majority of 'hams' are well in to their 60's, 70's, and 80's, that have shown no ill effects after 50+ years of being in the hobby. If there were any issues they should have shown up by now, as we're the closest to the transmitters ! Anyway, our new home is build much higher up and further back off the street than their house, even though it is aimed due north, when the blocks are more north east than north facing, so we're not looking in on them. She is or was pregnant due very soon, as I saw an ambulance leave their place last week, so I guess she hasn't had anything better to do than to dream up issues on our block whilst looking out her windows, as you can see by a complaint lodged to WH&S against the roofer recently. Sort of think that I should put up a 10m flagpole in the building envelope, which I am legally allowed to do by the council, and put a skull and crossbones flag, or a outlaw motorcycle gang flag up there. There's a lot of things I could legally do there that is a lot more dangerous/toxic/annoying that AR could ever be. Just think of building drag racing engines that use nitro methanol fuels... she should consider herself lucky that that isn't my hobby instead. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 17Aug 14, 2014 12:23 pm Reminds me of a friend who didn't get along with his next door neighbour and so he decided to get a heap of old motor mowers and put them on his garage roof and point all of the handles at the neighbour's kitchen window. He ignored several council orders to take them down but finally did so. I have always regretted not taking a photo. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 18Aug 14, 2014 1:54 pm Quote: Our problem now is that the brickie won't brick up the rest of the house until the door frames are in, My bricklayers were the opposite. They only used my timber door jambs as a template to form the openings to the exact size. Once the walls were bricked up the frames were removed and went back into storage in my shed This way the frames would not be damaged by other building activities or the weather. I will install them after all the walls and ceilings are sheeted. Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 19Aug 14, 2014 8:14 pm SaveH2O Reminds me of a friend who didn't get along with his next door neighbour and so he decided to get a heap of old motor mowers and put them on his garage roof and point all of the handles at the neighbour's kitchen window. He ignored several council orders to take them down but finally did so. I have always regretted not taking a photo. What an excellent trick. However whilst it would be fun to do something like that to these neighbours, I certainly don't want to upset any of the other neighbours, even though a few of them would probably probably get a laugh out of it. Spoke to the neighbour on the other side, who told me that they no longer wave to him as they go past, and he's not worried about that. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Owner building in Jimboomba 20Aug 14, 2014 8:21 pm Beetaloo Quote: Our problem now is that the brickie won't brick up the rest of the house until the door frames are in, My bricklayers were the opposite. They only used my timber door jambs as a template to form the openings to the exact size. Once the walls were bricked up the frames were removed and went back into storage in my shed. Now that's a good option. I've got the frames for all except the pivot door, but I'm sure I could dummy one up from measurements of the frames at Bunnings, as I only need to get the outside measurements right. I'll put it to the brickie tomorrow to see what he says. Thanks for the idea. 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