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