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Cladding continues

This week we had our plumbing and electrical walkthrough. 

With the electrician it was deciding on where every power point and light switches will be, data cabling requirements, security requirements and lighting.  Fortunately, we’d already pre-planned where we had wanted the light switches so it was really straight forward.  Although when we got to the main bathroom the door swing and the shower size and location meant we had to shift the towel rail to a different wall to be able to locate the switches in a logical place.  Things you don’t notice on the floorplan!

Then with the plumber on the location and position of taps and shower heads as well as exterior taps.

The joinery for the corner sliding doors and delivered and installed as well, doors to follow and along with one last window for the front of the house, will complete all the joinery.

Also we have more beige cladding installed and not far from it being complete.

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Rain is here!

Well it had to happen eventually.  Wellington’s perfect weather which has lasted for most of the build to date, abruptly stopped.  This week saw Wellington with some of it’s heaviest downfalls and a depressing 6 minutes of actual sunlight!

Unfortunately the roof hasn’t been completed and the entire first floor remains still exposed to the elements.  As you can see from the photo’s there’s more than a little standing water.

Next week is the scheduled Plumbing and Electrical walkthrough which prompted us to contact an architectural lighting company Moth Lighting to assist.  They are now designing a full lighting and switching plan for the house with some really modern products.

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Cladding and a cat door

Cladding installation has started this week.  Eventually they will be painted but for now they’re a very beige…. beige.

Also the laundry exterior door and window has been installed – this has the cat door in it and because it’s double glazed it had to be done from the factory.  A good thing to know!

More ground floor roof installed but first floor not started yet, luckily beautiful sunny weather all week.

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Joinery installed

We have beautiful windows and front door!

This house was designed long and narrow with lots of windows on the north side to maximize sun and natural light into most of rooms.  And big windows at that. 

The black anodized finish looks very sharp and modern and it will be great to see when the cladding starts going on.  Most opening windows have vented latches to allow for secure opening and ventilation, only the ones on sliding doors don’t. 

One of the changes we made during window walkthrough was to have a tint applied to the sidelights either side of the front door, it’s a nice privacy effect but it’s hard to photograph!