Photos from week starting 21st March

There was more progress on the roof structure, but nothing really major to show you in the photos.

In-fill beams are being installed

The fascia beam above the hallway has been installed

The lounge/dining room roof structure is complete

There are beams all over the place, at all sorts of angles

The most significant piece of work that was completed was laying the irrigation pipework for the dispersal of the treated effluent from the wastewater treatment unit.

Nothing much to see as all the pipework is buried

These boxes are the only evidence that the work has been completed

Photos from week starting 14th March

Progress on the roof on the east side of the house has been really good and in addition the last areas of brickwork have now been finished.

All the main roof beams that support the ridge and valley lines on the east side are installed

The fascia board is installed so that we can now see the profile of the roof

View along the roof overhang along the east side

Detail of how the roof beams and fascia boards intersect

Intersection of the roof beams along the west side of the profiled roof

Timber has been attached into the steel beams over lounge so that the roof joists can be attached to them

Detail of how the ridge beam is bolted to the supporting steel column

The brick column outside the garage has been completed

The chimney breast has also been completed

Internal brickwork in the lounge

Now that the brickwork for the reverse brick veneer wall has been completed we can see the view from the study

Insulation has been installed in the reverse brick veneer walls along the east facade

Insulation in the timber frame above the east facade sliding door opening

Looking at the house from the west side of the site.  We can now really see the low profile that the house will have

The mains power cable has now been installed from the new poles (but not yet connected as there is an issue with getting approval from Energy Australia - it seems that there is a problem with permissions that should have obtained before the existing line was installed)

View from the roof level into the rainforest in the north gully

Photos from week starting 7th March

We reached a really big milestone this week with the start of the construction of the roof.  The main roof joists are made from laminated timber and the length of them is quite impressive.

The main joists along the east side of the house have been positioned so that we can now see the folded profile of the roof

This is the sloping joist across the lounge

Looking along the east facade showing the three bays of sloping joists

The sloping joists in each bay need to be positioned very carefully and the ends  profiled  so that they can be joined together

Looking south along the hallway

The joists are significant pieces of timber

One of the last pieces of brickwork is the column outside the garage that supports the roof overhang

Photos from week starting 28th February

There has been quite a lot going on this week all over the site.

The wastewater treatment tank was delivered on Tuesday

The tank has been installed but we will wait until there is power and water available before commissioning it

Two new electricity poles have been installed alongside the access road up to our site boundary

The area along the east side of the house has been regraded back to the original ground level

Also along the north side.  We can now begin the bush regeneration work

Scaffolding has been erected to enable the roof to be installed along the north and east facades

View of the lounge and the partly built chimney breast

View from the scaffolding of the east facade roof profile

Internal brickwork over the windows in the main bedroom has been completed

The external skin of brickwork in the west courtyard is complete

The insulation for the west dining room wall has been installed and now the outer skin of brickwork can be laid

We have also decided to redesign the principle of the blackout blinds in the bedrooms.  Instead of internal roller blinds we are going to have external roller shutters.  The shutter will also be installed over the sliding doors in the study and the lounge.  This means that we can avoid any issues the rural fire service might have about the bushfire resistance of the Swedish doors and it will improve the security of the house.  The downside is that the roller unit will project out from the facade and minimise the visual impact of this we have asked the architect to provide us with detail design of the relationship between the  shutter, the sliding door frame and the internal flyscreen.

On the subject of the windows we received from photos from Westcoast Coast Windows of the windows and doors being loaded into the container for shipment.

The smaller windows at the back of the container

Loading the sliding doors was a tight fit

Final bracing being installed to make sure nothing moves in transit

The next time the container doors will be opened will be in Sydney

The container was taken from Gothenberg to Hamburg by a feeder ship where it was loaded onto the CMA CGM Lavender.  

As of today (4th March) the ship is off the coast of Portugal and is due to arrive in Sydney on 9th April.  You can follow the position of the ship at:

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=A8IG2