Cornice goes up & Scaffold comes down

We had a bit more slow progress this week. It still feels so frustratingly slow and we are totally over believing anything our builder tells us.

We are still feeling like this will never be over and we wil never actually get to live in this house.

This week the cornices were put up and the timber for the architraves has arrived. Finally the dispute with the scaffolder was resolved and they took away the scaffold so we get to see our house 'naked' for the first time.
We have been pretty lucky with big gaps (4m to 5m)  down either side of our house so as you come down the street it looks like ours has a lot more space around it. There is a  certain presence about the house probably because it looks very different from everything else in the street, its big and its set higher than a lot of the others.

Here are some progress pics from this week.

The piles of cornice and architraves waiting to go up

A finished bit of cornice near the bottom of the stairs

The new view without scaffold

Next few things that should happen

• completion of render to garage, facade columns and HT wall
• installation of door jambs
• installation of door and window trim
• prep of ground floor floors for tiling
• building of front porch roof
• bathroom waterproofing

Today we got plastered... More

Another milestone started this week with the downstairs plaster going up in 1 day. Its very interesting that the rooms upstairs seem smaller and the downstairs rooms seem bigger.

Here are some pics

The view from the front door looking down the hall way.

The family room viewed from the kitchen.

The view from upstairs looking towards the back.

Another view of the family room



Update 12/2/11

Well its been a very slow journey since the last blog update. Its actually quiet depressing and on some days I dont even want to vist the house as the lack of progress just makes me sad.

Here are some of the things that have happened since the last update.

 Our Xmas pressent... the stairs went in on Xmas Eve. Much easier than climbing the wonky ladder.

The front facade gets closer to the finished look. Need all of the scaffold gone so the render can be completed.

The lower lounge room roof frame goes on.

The roof frame for the alfresco goes on.

The view from the door of the master bedroom looking toward the Rumpus at the front of the house.

The insulation goes in behind the bricks.

Upstairs plaster finished in 1 day.

No wonder my neighbour has complained about the rubbish. I hate seeing it like this :(

So as of now the house is half plasters, the roof upstairs leaks, the front porch roof still hasnt been built, my render isnt finished and half of the scaffold is still up.

At the best possible time frame the house could be ready in 6 weeks but with the pace (or lack of) that things usually move I am thinking it will be more like 12 weeks.

Lets hope we get to move in one day :(

Its now over 12 months since we recieved council approval.