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.
