Driveway Day 4

13/12014

Day 4 saw the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle laid. All that's left to do is some saw cuts tomorrow. Darren, the concreter is not happy with the top piece and will have the lot coated with sealer in a few weeks. If the cracks still show, he is going to rip that section out and re-do it at his expense. He is very particular with his work. Time will tell how it holds up.



Driveway Day 3

12/11/2014

Part 2 of the driveway was delivered today. We have a small problem with the top part poured yesterday showing some hairline cracks. Our concreter is not happy so part 2 pour was with a special concrete which has fibres in the cement. He said when it's sealed the cracks may disappear but if I'm not happy with it he will take it out and do that section again. I'm a bit disappointed but lets see what happens.



Driveway Day 2

11/11/2014

Day 2 of the driveway saw the top section concreted and forming up of the next section. It's looking good and the colour matches the roof.



Driveway. Yipee!

10/11/2014

Today is my darling wife's birthday and she received a bonus present. The concreter's arrived and started to form up the driveway. I have been waiting 9 weeks for this particular person as his work is excellent hence the wait time. The posi-track operator knew how to drive one of those things and his eye for levels was amazing. They plan to pour tomorrow and the colour we chose was Woodland which is very similar to Jasper, the colour of our roof.

Cutting the gutter was a challenge

A bit of a slope

Top section formwork

More formwork



Street Plaque

8/11/2014

Two weeks ago I was going through some paperwork and found the voucher for the plaque that MJH gave us. It arrived today and it looks great. 10 mins to drills some holes and get it level and it was done. Very happy.



Solar Panels Installed

16/10/2014

Our Solar panels were installed today. It's a 3 kw system with 12 panels through Energy Australia. The Technician told me when the sun is out, use your appliances as the Government rebate is virtually nothing. Our power usage so far is very little and I'm looking forward to a power bill for once.

 

The panels are quite large

Finished product

Boys Pictures then a Storm

13/10/2014

My wife had some pictures framed to hang in their bedrooms. Being a steel frame, it makes things a little harder to attach. After this was completed a quite spectacular storm roared through. Welcome to Summer.

Oliver's room

Isaac's room

Here comes the storm

Nature can be very spectacular



NBN Connected

3/10/2014

After a week's delay, the Telstra Tech came today and hooked up our NBN. I have a data cable running to the Study which is in the middle of the home. Wi-Fi is perfect in every room so no need to run any more data cables. Also because Telstra left me waiting I done a little smooth talking and managed to get $400 in credits. It pays to be polite on the phone.

 

Shutters & Blinds

30/09/2014

Finally after waiting 7 weeks, our shutters and blind were installed today. Now we have some privacy and will be moving in this weekend, a month after receiving the keys. Happy days.

Kids Room

Laundry

Main Bathroom







Crimsafe and Flyscreens

28/9/2014

Our Crimsafe doors and flyscreens went in today. A bit more security and we can open the windows & doors now without fly's and mozzies inviting themselves in.

Crimsafe on Laundry door

Crimsafe on sliding doors to Alfresco



Air Conditioning Installed

23/09/2014

Our A/C was installed today. It an Actron 17kw ESP Platinum Plus unit. It cost a bomb compared to what I could of had with MJH but this thing is the bees knees and cost bugger all to run.

A/C Tech's busy at it.

The base for the condenser unit.

Condenser unit installed.