Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Pouring of Footings R.2 6Mar 23, 2010 5:15 pm Never argue with an idiot they drag you down to their level & then beat you with experience - Dilbert View Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19733 Contract signed 14Sept Slab 30Sept Bricks laid 1Dec Lock up 26Feb Keys 10Jun Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Stonehenge? 10Apr 24, 2010 10:01 am So, it's been two weeks so I guess it's time for another update. We have finally chosen some colours for the house. Resene Sisal is the winner. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Then for the rendered walls around (there are lots), we decided on Double Sisal. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Interior walls of the house Spanish White or was it Half Spanish White? I can't remember will confirm later. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Outdoor tiles. (Pool area, garden room, stadium seating. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Benchtops. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Sorry about the crappy sizes of the pics. So now for the update on the works being done. Last two weeks has seen a lot happen. We have put up the beams and my so called "feature post" for the extension (bedroom and garden room). After that went in, the slab for the garden room was prepped along with the salb in our storage room under the stadium seats, as well as the formed steps that lead from the garage to the garden room and then from the garden room up to the pool area. We also had dug some post holes and posts put in. The pour yesterday consisted of all the slabwork just mentioned, the forming of the steps and the fence posts being concreted in with what was left over from a truck or two. Last week we had quite a bit more blockwork put up and filled with concrete, as you can see from the pics. We also now have a protuberance of flooring for our kitchen that will come out from the rest of the house. A steel beam for the kitchen was put in and now we have a timbre beam running all around so they can start on the roofing next week. What is really taking shape are the colonnades. Every pump operator over the past two weeks has commented on them, things like "what the fu&K are they", "where the fu&k are the druids", others referred to it as "The Colosseum". You can see where they will be from the reo bar sticking out of the ground and rising up into the heavens, yesterday while taking the pics a little bird flew in and sat utop them taking in the new view. I just hope he is not thinking of nesting up there as the concrete beam that will sit up there will kinda get in his way. 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 ⋅ 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: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Stonehenge? 11Apr 24, 2010 10:34 am WOW, what a fantastic build!! Did you buy shares in Besser and BHP before you started? Thats a lot blocks and a lot of steel. Re: Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Stonehenge? 12Apr 24, 2010 10:44 am Working for a steel fabrication business helps so much it's not funny. The builder can tell me he needs a beam or some steel posts and I can have it to him in under a week in most cases. The blocks are not that bad too, for around $2.00 each to buy then another couple to lay, they are an inexpensive way to get a wall up. Once render goes over them it will neaten it all up. The architects wanted us to use a white brick originally or split block for all the walls and a brick for the flooring. Each split block and brick was around $6.00 each and there are heaps more of them needed to make a wall than what there is blockwork, they like spending other peoples money. But we just did not have it so we changed it on the fly. Re: Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Update 20/5/10 13May 20, 2010 9:54 am Hello again, Next update here, lots of work done. Stadium seating poured, normal stairs poured. Foundations for terrace dug, being reo'd as I type this. Colonnades up to half way. Core filled. Seating in garden room blocked and filled. Garden room electrical done, BBQ gas lines run, lights on wall run. Some framework for bedroom done (extension). Scaffolding all up so that the blockies can come in and run the colonnades up to full height (around 5m). Anyway take a look at the pics I took yesterday. 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I'm off to inspect your plans closely - I love looking at plans then seeing the house come together through the pics. Thanks for posting these. Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Updated 20/5/10 15Jun 09, 2010 10:26 am WOW is right when I first saw the original little blue house I said ... to myself "oh, that's so cute" but it won't look like that at all will it there's a lot of work there Nathan it's going to look fabulous and I can't wait to see it. Re: Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Updated 20/5/10 16Jun 09, 2010 10:32 am No problem, I really need to do a new update, quite a lot has been done. *Colonnades have been brought to full height of around 5M, concrete formwork beam has been poured just yesterday. It will take 1 week before they can rip off the boxing to see the finish. I'm not worried, every other piece of concrete they have formed for us has been nearly perfect. *Laundry has been framed, also our en-suite has been framed (it sits above the laundry). *Ordered my heated towel rail for the ensuite: DC Short Lava (see below), baths and toilets. Hidden cistern in main bathroom due to size limits. All are of the fowler seido range. *We had to get rid of a window in the laundry bathroom, the plans show a window that due to us building a bulkhead in the garden room for the rangehood, would only have left that window at half height, so we decided to scrap it. *Roof beams are up in the bedroom. They were framing the window in the top corner up for it Monday. *Last Friday they laid 800 blocks for the front terrace in one day! I thought that was a pretty good go. * Were the foundations were dug for the terrace it caused the neighbours blockwork knee high wall to collapse into our property, this was after some vicious rain loosened the soil. Each section of wall needed to be removed by hand! Only because they could not get a digger onto the neighbours driveway, that may have snapped off and fallen in aswell. Luck for us the neighbour does not mind and is currently away from their home. I'll try get some more pics up, so much going on. Nearly time for the electrical rough in. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Nathan & Lisa's Renovation - Updated 20/5/10 17Jun 09, 2010 10:38 am Now THAT is a nice towel rail and the hidden cistern.....if only I had checked the size of one of our toilets I would have done the same, the architect made it so you can JUST open the door but then one has to move to side of the loo before shutting it if only I had checked Re: Re: Nathan & Lisa's Reno - More blocks & framing at last 19Jun 16, 2010 4:07 pm Ok, it's been a while. Bedroom/Ensuite framing done. Waiting on roof. Kitchen living framing 90%. Waiting on roof. Roofs to go in next week. Terrace is blocked up. 800 blocks in one day. Slabs under terrace (terrace is the store room below) to be done soon. (hurry up digital door locks I need the parts!) Neighbours wall taken down. Colonnades blocked, filled and beam boarded up and poured. Another few tons of concrete there. Here are some pics. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking down from house to the pool. Through the colonnades. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking down at laundry/bathroom. You walk through the laundry to get to a shower and toilet, mainly used for pool use. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking down at laundry. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ View from ensuite. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Don't be shy boys! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Under the laundry, this is where the ducted AC and instant how water will be, gated front. Wall yet to be built on the far side. Both pics below show another storage area under the stadium seating. I'll make up some gates for them. Later on they will have nice fancy wood doors, that is when we decide to build in underneath the exiting house. Note: All plumbing and electrical will accommodate future work. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Exit to backyard from store. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Store entrance. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Getting ready for slab pour. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Drainage ditch where neighbours wall used to be. Collapsed in the rain. Front of house, terrace on left. Under the terrace is store room, for mowers and what not. Where my steel post is there is a corner of a landing. That will be boarded up and a slab laid on top, then more blocks on top to make a wall/seat. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking at the stars from the house to the laundry down below and the master bedroom up top. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Minimum overhang into gutter must be 50mm, turn down tool should not split the sheet. it seems wrong tool for the profile was used, the flashing cannot slope back. Rib… 2 2128 Electrical just got back to me and said the most they can provide is a single power point on the Bedroom 1 side of that wall. After handover, your towel rail installer… 2 3848 |