Locked and Fixed!!!

So we received our Lock Up invoice a couple of weeks ago, and then BAM Fixing invoice came a couple of days later! It's been a rather slow couple of weeks actually. We're just biting our nails "hurry up and finish already!" lol

Our walls are still raw, painting has been delayed because there are holes in the Study and Master WIR that needs to be plastered back again - they forgot to pull out the wiring for external hot water system. Well, at least it's discovered now!

Still, a breath of excitement for our bench tops and sinks in our Kitchen and Bathrooms are in. Glad to see that our colour choices are working well together so far hehe

Our bricks been cleaned and scaffolding has been taken down and our front facade is looking sooo sexy! Cannot wait for the completed rendering!

Breathe in all the dust!

We are so in love with Carlisle Homes right now! Here's why:

we have stairs!!!

our doors are delivered

and our cabinets and drawers

The men were in to prep the walls for painting before the electricians come out to bring out the wiring. Strange, I would have thought it was the other way around.

Here's some pictures of our plastered walls:

Our Family Room

Upstairs Activity Area

The Master Bedroom

Our WIR leading into the Ensuite

Ensuite leading into the WIR

Gyprock, you rock. We've been Plastered!!!

Hi all. Went to check out the progress today and found 10 men in our home. They all took one large sheet of Gyprock plaster and headed into our kitchen. Simultaneously, they lifted it above their heads toward the ceiling with one hand, and with the other they lifted their power drills and screwed it into place. Each board was in it's place within 10 seconds. It was amazing and fun to watch. Kind of reminded me of the 7 Dwarfs (except that there were 10). Hi Ho, Hi Ho..... lol.

I took pictures but I'm not happy with them. The flash left too many specks on each photo so I'm heading back tomorrow to take some more.

As thick as a Brick

Our lovely GREEN door. Wonder when they will paint it?? May ask them to leave it as is, NOT!! :)

Our bricks seem to slowly be making their way up the wall. Don't worry little brickie, you'll soon meet your  friend the roof tile....

You can't really see it in this picture, but this is meant to be our three stacker sliding door leading out to the Alfresco. Oh yeah, and our plaster is still waiting patiently inside as you can see.

The outer wall of the meals area.

Our beautiful roller door leading into the back yard.

The other side of our house. This is where the laundry leads out to. Jackki's vegie garden will also eventually be going here.

All Wrapped and Warm.

It's been awhile since our last post because it has been too dark to capture the wonderful progress. And oh my so much has happened!
Firstly, our roof is tiled, windows installed and bricks delivered. We are wrapped, insulated and plumbing is complete. Our lights and powers are in place and the plaster has been delivered. And our entrance door is ready to be hinged!
Our home is truly looking beautiful!

Our glowing bricks in the bright morning sun

Awaiting to be touched up with Red Box coloured paint.

The Garage has been wrapped and insulated too. Wasn't expecting that.

Jackki's massive study.

Our plaster waiting in the kitchen.

This is where our kitchen rangehood will go.

Who wants to jump in the bath with me? 

Our Master walk-in-robe

This is our shower recess.

Our electrical, telephone and network cables.

Frame Stage complete

Our Site Supervisor advised us last week that Frame stage would be completed by Wednesday. True to his word we have now been FRAMED!! :>

We organised an independent inspector (NHI) to come in and assess the work so far. The guy was very impressed with Carlisle's work which made us more confident that we did indeed choose the right builder to go with. He only found a hand full of minor issues which the Site Supervisor had agreed were issues and that he would get them attended to.

Our roof tiles were also delivered today, so hopefully we have cover above our eager little heads by early next week.

The only disappointing thing so far is that we didn't take photos to post this time round.

Framed!!!

After a week of rain we are so impressed to have windows installed and framing stage nearly complete! Only the roof trusses remain.

looking very impressive already!

 

knock knock anyone home??

our garage

family and rumpus

family room

We have to look into getting an Independent Inspector to assess the frame as it looks like they're almost done with frame stage. Very very impressed so far with CH. Although we noticed two windows have been mismatched, being placed in the wrong area. Will have to alert them on Monday.
ahhh soooo excited!!!