Week 13, Day 94 - Onsite meeting with SS, Render finished

Scott and I met with Andrew our SS on Thursday morning to go through a few things that we had noticed or wanted clarification on.

Andrew is very much on the ball and had already acted on some issues that we were going to tell him about, which is reassuring!  Everyone I know who has built recently says that if you have a good SS, then things will run smoothly.  I must say, we've been very lucky!

The painter is booked for the coming week, and should be all done within the week.  The tiler is booked for the week after that.  I asked the inevitable question of handover, and he said that the house should be completed around 4 weeks after the tiler has been.  That means that they are ahead of time, and would have been even more ahead, had there not been a few issues that had to be corrected.

The renderers returned on Friday to finish the exterior.  Although the colour is not a great deal different to the base layer, it has certainly finished off the look of the house.  We love it!  It's still very pale and fresh, and isn't too modern, which is what we were trying to avoid :)  Still a far-cry from our old cottage home, but still very "us" we think.

Here are some shots of the house now the render has been finished.  The colour again, is Pipe Clay.  The decorative caps around the windows at the front will be painted the same colour as the windows which is Surfmist.

Week 12, Day 82 - We got rendered!

We were a little surprised to see that the house was getting rendered today, and also just a little bit surprised to see that it looked very green as it was going on.  A little bit if panic set in (only with me, although I knew as with any surface, it dries a different colour), which quickly disappeared after it began to dry over the day.  It appears quite close to the natural colour of the hebel, which is good as we really liked the look of it against the colour of the roof.

The render colour we chose was Dulux - Pipe Clay, which looks quite grey here, but is a cool, creamy-beige.

The end of last week saw the plastering finished, with all of the cornices installed and paint prep completed.  I won't bore you with dozens of photos, just a few with the cornices installed.

Scott spoke with the SS today, who has mentioned that the kitchen will most likely be installed on Monday, and the painting will be done next week!  This is just a LITTLE bit exciting!  Woo hoo, we're on the down hill now - I think :)

Wiring ready for up/down lights at portico

Rear doors of the rumpus room

Dining area

Looking back into the main living area from the rumpus room

Kitchen 

Facade & Exterior Selections

The facade we have chosen for our home is the Allandale, which was the most simple, classic style available for the Forestdale.  Coming from the old cottage style home that we had previously, we didn't really want anything too modern.

Scott & I couldn't find a single brick in the whole PD collection that we really liked!  Everything was too modern, or so far removed from our taste that we were pulling our hair out trying to come up with something that we both liked.  We decided to take up the Hebel offer and have the whole house rendered.  That way, we can stick with the neutral colours that we love and the house, although fully rendered, will have somewhat of a sandstone appearance.

Galvanised Roof
Windspray (Colorbond)

Render
Pipe Clay (Dulux)

 

Windows
Seamist (Colorbond)