Electrical finished, Brick Cleaning, Insulation arrives

Electricians have came and gone.  All electrical has been finished - so they believe. We have a set of lights that will be changed to downlights after handover, they lights effectively form a runway down the corridor. These need to be repositioned to be evenly spaced.  Position of lights in the family room are wrong, the light position in the kitchen is also wrong, but the difference is that the electrical documents have this in the right position. The family room position is slightly out, should be centred in the room. I think having the owner go through the house as often as possible allows things to be fixed sooner which reducing the costs to the builder.

The power point  in the laundry is above the laundry trough, not a good position for a power point. I can't really blame anyone, the plans the electrician had were not quite right. We have three different documents for electrical and there are differences in each.  Light switch, power point, even the direction of the door opens are different and this all adds up to mistakes.

Missing outside power point  for future rain water toilet flushing

The insulation has arrived and this afternoon was being installed.  This is despite the SS deciding not in install the insulation on the ground floor until the roof of rumpus room being finished.

 Acid wash of the bricks, the cleaners said they needed to clean the bricks twice given how dirty they were. The colour of the bricks is so much nicer.  They looked good before, but they look great now.  When the scaffolding is removed they will complete the wash on the rest of the brickwork.

Electrical is preparation of the garage being completed.

 

Electrical and Air-conditioner

The electricians are currently wiring the house, Will take some photos once they are finished.  I am going to take photos of all wiring for future reference.

The cooling specialists are currently installing the air-conditioner.

Over the weekend, it appears that someone has attempted to steal the glass stacker door some time between Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.  It was held in place by wedged timber from inside the house, there is no way the wind knocked the door down. If we had not had tradesmen working this week I believe it would be gone.

This is about the tenth item to go missing.  We had floor trusts, lentils, timber, roof tiles and our water meter go missing since the house was started.

More of the house completed

 Porter Davis has completed the back of the house.  Not what I expected, was expecting the back of house to be flush with the brick work. The cement sheeting is set back approximately half brick.  I thought that there was going to be foam (filling) between the frame and the cement sheeting. This would be made it flush with the brick work.

 

Went and had a look at the display house, and its the same.  As you can see from the photo, set about half a brick inside of brick work.  If we had known (or previously seen) we would of changed this to make it flush at contact signing. It doesn't matter how much you study the plans and contract you are bound to miss things. :-)

The internal lockout (this is where the carpenters) complete things like the bath,  eaves and preparing the frame for plaster is being done.

 

Brickwork around house completed

Brick work is completed around the house, waiting for a replacement lentel (stolen) before the garage can be finished.

Walked around the scaffolding and looked for problems and issues that might need addressing.

  The local birds have been having fun eating the rubber seals on the windows.

Found some issues with the guttering. 

Tiles have been lifted and are out of place.  Not a big issue, roof is not completed. The rumpus room tiles have not been finished. 

I don't really like the way the guttering is done where the eaves stop (facade) and rest of house gutting.  If I had my way again, I would have eaves all around the house.

Looks like a brick is missing from the end of guttering.

I really the brick work, the brick layers have done a great job.

Plumbing, Vacuum and Solar Prewire has been completed

Went past the house and even though the brick work has not been completed, the plumbers have completed the plumbing for upstairs, they have installed the pipe for the ducted Vacuum and done the pre-wiring for solar.

Ducted Vacuum point.

Kitchen kickboard sweep point.  This has a flap the you can lift and it engages the vacuum.  It is mounted at floor level so you can sweep into it. 

The hole in the brick work is for the vacuum, power cables next to it are part of the solar pre-wire.  You can't see it in the picture, but to the right of that cable is another hole for the safety switches, they are moved into the garage as part of the solar pre-wiring. That is the scaffold covering it, brick layers are back to complete the first floor. 

Cable in the roof for when we get solar installed (after hand over).  Argus Technology was to expensive to have them do solar.

Plumbing for the first floor 

We are going to arrange for our inspector to re-inspect the frame, given there were a few concerns.  The site supervisor is happy about them being fixed and has asked to be on-site for the re-inspection.  Should be interesting.  Need to contact NHI.

More photos of the house and brick work

Brick layer removed some of the brick work and did it again. They were not happy with it.

 Brick around the rumpus room

 

 One of the kids against the inside garage wall

Brickwork Photo

Here is a photo of the bricks going up.  I really like the brick work.