Latest happenings

Since my last post some progress has been made on a few of the problems we have identified.

Concrete boxing and reo has been set up in a couple of places where the house frame was overhanging the slab to support the brickwork. Our SS told us that the exposed reo will be fixed this week and the brickies are due to start tomorrow.

The plumbers have been and roughed in all the interior pipework. We were a bit surprised to find pipework that hadn't been properly clipped, but this is easily fixed before plastering begins. The duct work and heating unit have been installed - I'm really looking forward to having ducted heating next winter.

Our chippie has been on site to straighten walls and check that everything is OK.

The electricians were on site today running cables for the power points and lights. Due to the size and length of our house (and the associated electrical demands) a secondary power board is being installed in our linen cupboard. A bit disappointed with the locations of some power points, in many rooms we have two double power points on one wall. We thought that the outlets would be evenly spaced, both 600mm in from the adjoining walls, however one is right in the very corner and the other is about 600mm in. These aren't hard to fix before the plaster is done, but that's not how our electrical layout plan looks.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the progress the brickies make tomorrow and will definitely have photos. Our new camera has arrived but I ran out of daylight to get proper photos today.