The structural part of the landscaping is now complete, we just have to start planting out!
We found a few of the last Claypave pavers still available and decided to lay…

Just a point on those temporary light weight plastic downpipe hoses. In our case the builder installed them as soon as the guttering went up, but they were totally useless.…

Today was handover day. This almost went off the rails since the company forgot to send us the final invoice to pay and they must have cleared payment in hand…

Las, there is no issue. It simply depends on how pedantic one is on the use of the word FREE.
There are other no deposit finance…

It's engineered laminate flooring in Spotted Gum. I think it might be QuickStep. It was a special upgrade, not one of the standard Brighton selections.

The driveway was installed today.
The interior getting close to finished as well. Just a few more weeks till PCI.

Painting and fit off has been progressing over the last couple of weeks. We are finally getting to see the choices made from the small samples in the colour studio…

I found it difficult to find examples of lighter colour bricks when trying to decide for our build. The most popular things seem to be all dark and shades of…

A related question. If the wall is to be tiled to the ceiling without cornice should the plasterboard be square set before tiling or is it normal to just tile…

A pic of the installed kitchen cabinets.

Progress this week, waterproofing completed, cabinets nstalled and the tiles have been delivered.
The waterproofing compound must be very expensive, it looks like they just do the bare minimum. Who would…

Yes. The fence is shared property with your neighbour and goes on the property line, not on one side only. OMP is Outer Most Projection which I think might actually…

No pictures but fit out complete (i.e. the doors, architraves, etc. have been installed) and wet areas sealed. Next week there might be some cabinetry and the tiling start is…

You probably need to look for project homes designed for acreage. Brighton Homes have a couple of floorplans that might be the sort of thing you are after and they…

Andy we are currently 50% through the build process and the experience has so far been pretty positive. To be honest we were surprised at how flexible Brighton were in…

One 'Free' solar package I've seen promoted installs a system on your home at no cost, but you do not own it. The installer owns the system for a number…

Plastered.

Bricking was finished yesterday and the plastering has already started. According to the Brighton Homes written protocols there was supposed to be a pre lining inspection scheduled but the SS…

There wasn't much out of plumb to fix on the first inspection. Most of the straightening involved blocking the frame intersections properly, refitting knocked out noggins and truing noggins to…

An update on the frame inspection. After our inspection and before the brickies started, the carpenters went through and straightened the frames, finishing nailing off the incomplete bracing etc. I…

Bricking started....
The brickies seem to be good. All the bricks laid so far are pretty clean and I think there are cut bricks in the wall to the left of…

The carpenters did their thing yesterday to straighten the frame and finish off things noted as outstanding in the frame inspection. Services rough in is complete, windows installed and bricks…

It depends on your plans, the state you are in and how close the wall is to other walls or site boundaries but mostly a retaining wall under 1m high…

There has been some discussion recently on other threads whether independent inspections are worth the money and question if they just do a review you can easily do yourself by…

Starting to wonder about the roof. There seem to be a lot of screws, more than I generally see on corrugated roofs, possibly because of our N4 wind rating, although…

Roof on.

I'm not sure if it's due to supply chain issues popping up due to Covid19 lockdown but we are also getting a few variations being raised regarding items of fitout…

Frame up. Apparently the frame doesn't get straightened until after the roof is on and windows are installed. This is sort of out of step with the stages suggested by…

As I observed earlier, according to the original plans drop edge beams were supposed to be formed along the zero setback walls. Apparently when the form work was being setup…