PAINTING PROBLEMS

Here is a lesson to others choosing paint colours. Dulux 'buff' and Dulux 'buff it' are 2 totally different colours. We now know this. I suspect 'buff' is an old colour as it doesn't come up on the dulux web site search as a current colour - in-fact it directs you to 'buff it' which is the colour we wanted. Despite this the painter managed to find the wrong one.

For the record the colour in the photo is Dulux 'buff' and we hate it.

WEATHERBOARDS

This week the weatherboards have been going up and are nearly finished apart from being sealed and painted.

Rita quite likes the unpainted colour of the cement sheet boards. The final colour will be dulux buff which is not too dissimilar. (see above)

Also on Friday they started on the infill for the gable up top which was one of our additions to the facade. (it matches quite a number of houses in our area)

Happy Birthday to Ben (the 'Small Geelong Supporter' for those who have been following from the first couple of posts). He turned nine.

HOUSE OF SCAFFOLDING

Look beyond all the scaffolding and fence and you can see the house taking shape.

The last couple of weeks have been cold and wet and it would have been nice to have things closed up.

Recent progress has been the sofit under the eaves on the upper roof and now the weatherboards have started on the north wall.

HOUSE OF BRICKS

The last of the brick work has been completed on the weekend and this week should see the roofing blokes move in.

Each trade manages to add to the mess which now covers the site.

This week I've shown a photo from the rear of the house looking towards the family/dining/kitchen and of course the 'alfresco' area which will be half under-cover and half open air.

You can see the fascias have gone up and some of the colourbond roof was delivered.

The 3m offset from the northern boundary is allowing the late afternoon may/june sun into all the rooms down that side of the house. Come summer we plan to install some shade sails to keep the sun off the wall.

BRICKS AND MORTAR

Arthur and his team of brickies have been on-site all this week. By weeks end they look to be about 3/4 finished.

I think the bricks look OK although Rita was concerned about the inclusion of alot of brown bricks that seem to be from a different range. We raised the query (as did the brickie) with our SS but he and the rep deemed them OK. I actually think it breaks the brick work up abit.

I'm a bit nervous about the brick column / double timber post combination and low nib wall (just started) as it's one of my inputs to the design. We are still not 100% on what should be rendered and what should stay brick.

Luckily the builder has not used a cheaper brick for the bits that we nominated to be rendered, allowing us to change our minds. (they love that).

Work in progress

WINDOWS

We've been very busy since my last entry as we moved from our home of 13 years to a small rental. Not something you want to do too often.

As far as the house goes things have slowed a little as the builder had a few issues obtaining the framing approval.

We are still working thru a few things with the builder but the framing payment has been paid and we're off again.

As you can see the windows were delivered and installed this last week.

The front facade are timber casements which look great (I think) especially the 3 panel upstairs bedroom windows which look similar to a lot of the older houses in our area.

We also forgot to change the entry door side lights to frosted glass so we'll fix that later.

The remainder of the house are aluminium. All are double glazed.