Photos from week starting 25th July

It was a very exciting week mainly because all the scaffolding has been taken down and the overall appearance of the house has finally been revealed.  Apart from the colour of the outside walls, which are currently white but will be finished as grey, we can now move from imagining what the house will look like to seeing the reality.  It is really amazing.

Our tiler, Norm, has also made really good progress and has virtually finished the interior floors.

The photos below are a walk around the outside of the house.

A close-up of one of the rainwater heads

All three rainwater heads have been installed

The tiling in the kitchen & dining room has been completed

The tiling in the lounge has been completed

Tiles in the laundry

Tiles in the courtyard

The walls in all the rooms have been undercoated.  This is the study where you can see the full profile of the roof

It is great that the landscaping has started on the west side of the house

Also they are getting ready to install the low retaining walls alongside the driveway

On Saturday we went to a timber merchant in Mittagong, south of Sydney, to look at FSC certified timber.  We have chosen Tonka for the inside floor boards (the three samples at the front) and Spotted Gum for the timber deck along the walkway on the east side (because it is classified as a non-combustible timber).  We were intending to use Fibre Reinforced Plastic grating for the walkway material but unfortunately there are no suppliers in Australia who can supply this with the fire certification that is needed for a bushfire zone.