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We are the owners of a 1.4 hectare block of land on the Central Coast.

The site includes areas of rainforest which have been badly overrun by non-native plants. Our project is to restore the rainforest and to build an environmentally sustainable house on the site.

This blog records the bush regeneration work we are undertaking and the progress on building the house.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Photos from week starting 23rd May

Work is now progressing on a number of fronts at once;

  • external brick walls are being rendered
  • electrical first fix continues
  • plumbing has started
  • external blue board is being fixed
  • carpentry to internal walls and bulkheads.
During the week we confirmed the orders for the window openers, solar hot water system and the bathroom floor tiles.  Next week the fireplace, cavity slider units and internal doors will be delivered.

Also, today we met the joiner, Erich, from Fine Earth Joinery who will be making all the cupboards and kitchen units.  It took us two and a half hours to go through all the details with him - exhausting!

With the front wall of the garage rendered it feels much less prominent

Render on the back wall of the garage

Render on the north west walls

Laundry wall has been rendered

The external finish around the hallway windows looks really good

Render on the garage wall.  The brick joint lines should disappear when the render has fully dried 

I think that the garage roof column looks really impressive

The electrician has wired up a sample of the ceiling wash light in the main bedroom
The fitting looks great but we haven't seen it working yet because it needs to have the builder's generator working


The wiring for the television has been installed

Example of a power point and a communications point

Plumbing in the main bathroom.  The black pipes are from the solar hot water panels; the green pipes are from the rain water tanks and the copper pipes are the hot and cold water supply to the bathroom sink

Pipes installed for the washing machine and the laundry sink

Pipework for hot water cylinder

Blue board on the east facade between the sliding doors

Blue board around the sliding doors

Blue board at the north end of the east facade.  The next stage is for the blue board to be rendered

The roof ridge line capping pieces are now installed

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