DAY 102 - Painting well underway...

Monday 26th November 2012

The painters started last Thursday (not Tuesday as expected) with a day of prep work filling in all the little holes on the skirts and arcs from the nail guns and other mundane stuff.  Friday they sprayed the WHOLE house with the first coat.  Amazing!

Today they are sanding and doing the gloss paintwork on the trims and doors.  Tomorrow they will do the final rolled and brushed coats to the roof and walls and it will be 90% done!  I think after that they will do staining of woodwork, external painting to eaves, battens, alfresco etc. so it's possible they will be all finished by the end of the week.


The colour doesn't really show well in the photos.  A whole house in this colour is a lot of it!  We hope it's ok when furniture is in there, because there's no way we're repainting for a very very long time... except maybe a few feature walls :)


We have Lexicon Quarter (white) trims with Beige Royal Half walls.  It doesn't seem to matter that with the sprayed on first coat the white is way over the trim size.  I love deep skirting boards but these ones will be gone tomorrow :)

 

Doors were sprayed here :)

 

It's so convenient when there's no floor coverings so only the feature timber and tiles need to be covered up!

Yay we're double digits... 96 days to go!

DAY 95 - We have a front door... of sorts!

Monday 19th November 2012

Today the chippies returned to finish off the eaves, fiber cement infills above some of the doors (garage, alfresco) and attach our front door... how do you like it?

Our front door is still on back order but latest update is mid next week it should be here.  Until then, we're 'locked out' with fc sheeting.  I think they want their Enclosed stage payment :)

The chippies will be back to fit the proper front door, and to add a little more beading above the garage door as they had run out of the wood for that. 

They were finishing this section when we arrived.

 

Cornice will be added to the alfresco ceiling

 

It seems I need to clean the spots off the camera lens!


There's a bit of wood left from the chippies so we'll move that into the stash for the cubby :)

I got the new sink last week and tested it this morning.  It appears to sit more flush with the benchtop but the real test is when it's installed.  Fingers crossed as I doubt they will swap it again.

Some time Friday or over the weekend the kitchen guys came back and fixed the laundry shelf which was crooked, and replaced the side panels to the cupboards beside the oven.  I haven't got the tape measure out yet but it seems to be ok.

Tomorrow the painters start... Yipee!!!


Still counting... 103 days to go!

DAY 91 - Wet area tiles are finished!

Wednesday 14th November 2012

Due to lack of time and a little lack of planning, we never met with the tile colour consultant.  Instead we visited the showroom many times to um and ah about various tile choices... it would have been quicker to meet with the consultant :)

Eventually we came to agreement and this is what we ended up with -

Bathroom, WC & Ensuite

Wall tiles - Coorong Mist
Floor tiles - Studio Brown
Feature - Aqua Stone Brenta (100 x 15 strips)

Laundry & Powder room

Floor tiles - Memento Sand (the same tile will be laid in our main floor area downstairs)
Wall tiles - Mocha subway tiles


And this is what the finished tiling looks like!  It's still a bit grubby as it's just been wiped over with a sponge.

Ensuite - there's a small piece of feature tile on the top left missing as they ran out.
A long trip back for the tilers for 5cm of tiles!

The mirrors overhang the backing board so it will be in line with the top row of tiles.

 

Bathroom

Feature tiles

Against the bench top

Laundry - the wall tile colour is not quite accurate because of the camera flash

Walk in linen

Powder room

We're really pleased with the care the tilers have taken.  It's not 100% how we planned, but then we're not tilers so weren't aware of how and where they have to cut tiles.  They were great to work with and gave options to minimise cuts and have the best flow of the tiles through the rooms.

And they've been good with lining up the grout lines.  I particularly like the downstairs tiles as being rectified porcelain they lay them much closer together so the grout line is very thin.

I was able to speak with them about their rates and we're planning to use them to lay our main floor tiles.

Now the tilers are finished the pre-paint can occur (plasterers final touch ups) and then the painters will start.

Another day's work and 107 days to go... looking forward to double digits!

 
 

DAY 90 - Wet area wall tiles!

Tuesday 13th November 2012

More progress today with the wall tiles in the wet areas being laid.

Ensuite - there's spaces for 2 rows of feature tiles to be laid

Bathroom

There's another row of wall tiles to go above the feature strip

Powder room

Laundry

Walk in linen

Tomorrow it's finishing the feature tiles, a row of wall tiles above the bath, and the wall tiles to the laundry.  Oh and grout!


108 days to go!

DAY 89 - Wet area floor tiles!

Monday 12th November 2012

Today the tilers laid the floor tiles in the wet areas.  It's exciting to see these go down as it means the end is in sight!  We're getting to the pretty stuff now :)

Ensuite

Bathroom

WC

Powder room

Laundry

Tomorrow it's wall tiles!


109 days and getting closer