Rawson Balmoral 38 MK1 - Newcastle NSW

Hi there, seems like you have PM's turned off? I had just notice it was sitting in my outbox undelivered?

The chifley metro facade has always been timber look aluminium, it is great stuff! Our neighbours who built recently with Rawson have Cedar, it just depends on the facade.

Week 21 we had our render on our fascade done (so glad to cover up those ugly red bricks!!) some more downpipes done and the waterproofer guy commenced work on our bathrooms.

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Painter is to start this week should look a whole lot better once we have it painted and the scaffolding starts to come down!

huhness thanks for your suggestion regarding the blue board behind the timber look slats on the fascade, we asked our S/S to have it painted monument (we have monument on the matrix board on the fascade also)

Get that blue film off your upstairs windows. Trust me. 7 weeks after move in they finally got it off ours.

Week 22 Not a huge amount has happened last week, waterproofing guys had done some more work, bulkhead frame above kitchen cabinets installed and sliding door frame installed for butlers pantry (Well that's all I spotted)

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Front door (technically side door in our case) frame has been on site for a few months they're getting it ready

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waterproofing pics

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Week 24: We met with our S/S today to go over a few things, and it seems the trades which were booked before the scaffolding came down never showed up to do their jobs (metal capping wasn't finished on facade, window cleaners didn't show up (blue film still on one window above the garage don't yell at us salfield!! painters had only done one coat..)

With most of the scaffolding down, the facade looks really good! We're happy with what we've achieved it was a lot of work trying to custom design the chifley metro facade onto the much narrower balmoral design and we're glad we persevered with waiting to gain approval from Rawson Homes HQ and then wondering how it'd look before we had paid to have the plans drawn up, then once the plans were drawn up you have those niggly thoughts in your mind that once constructed it may look ridiculous Thankfully its turned out great in our opinions!

A few little niggly things that need fixing on the facade (the pergola needed more filler where the nail holes were, metal caps weren't flush with rendered piers needs some selleys no more gaps in there to finish it off and as mentioned some missing metal capping etc)

Basically rawson were paying $1000 p/w (by memory) for the scaffolding, so they're keen to get it down ASAP so they're no longing incurring costs, the unfinished work will be done by accessing by ladders on roof according to our S/S..

Looks great as is, we cant wait to have the timber panelling up to add some further contrast to the rendered pier. Thanks again to huhness for recommending to paint behind the timber black, our neighbors across the street had theirs up this week and it was white {surfmist-ghosting?} and it looks almost like white mortar from the street, definitely needs dark contrast to highlight the timber slats.

The plan going forward is electrical rough in booked 15th Nov, A/C rough in 18th Dec Kitchen and stair install mid dec, hoping for wall gyprocked possibly undercoated by lockup by xmas break.

Seems like Xmas break will be for 3-4 weeks, our contract ends in 1st week in March so we'll probably be right up to then before we get to move in I guess!

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