Checking in this week, the flashing tape has been installed for in preparation for the joinery installation. Also the support framing has been removed from the garage and open plan living room so we can see the full scale of the room. And the roof has begun to be installed over the ground floor.
Pillarless corner is now pillarless!
Quick visit to site today. More wall underlay on the first floor now. It starts to highlight the size of the windows in the individual rooms, and they’re quite big!
Also the framing that was supporting the pillarless corner in the living room has been removed, and it now really opens up the family/dining area.
Covid Level 2 Weekend
On Monday 11th May, the PM announced the alert level would change from level 3 back to level 2 starting Thursday 14th, so a level 2 weekend meant we had some freedom to get out and about.
We headed to the house to see progress since our walk-through two weeks prior. Fascia has begun to be installed around the roof line and while the house is still mostly framing, the addition of Thermakraft wall underlay on the exterior helps you get a better feel of room sizes.
Framing and window walk-through
Friday of this week we all made a trip to site for the framing and window walk-through with our builder and site manager. Being Level 3 there’s now new H&S measures for visiting site. We were required to digitally sign in via the HazardCo app on our phones which is a QR code at the gate. Sanitize before going into the house and when leaving and keeping distance between our respective ‘bubbles’.
This meeting is a bit of a milestone as after today it gets expensive to make structural changes! It’s an all of building walk through to see if we want to make changes to framing anywhere and to go over every single window, the size, opening and for sliding door’s, the direction of opening.
Framing wise we made no changes. One change that had already been committed was to change the door into the pantry from a hinged door to a pocket door which will require additional framing work to do.
With the windows, the majority of we made no changes to. One of the sliding doors were flipped to open in the opposite direction. Ava’s room has a large window and we looked at different profile options to have an awning opening. We’ve added two windows to the garage to get natural light and ventilation. Several of the windows which are 2200 high we’ve made a change to take the window flush to the floor so it’s seamless.
The flow on effect of this change is that making the large window in Bedroom 3 flush to the floor puts it too close to the roof over the garage door. To resolve that, we’ve change the roof profile from hip to a gable so it doesn’t wrap around the front of the garage.
