My Porter Davis Build Blog

The carpenter has been around the last couple of weeks installing the architraves, skirting, ... and doors! Here's photos of the Deco 2D doors for anyone who is thinking of choosing them. They haven't been glossed over yet so hopefully they will 'pop' out more once painted. 

The stairs were installed a couple of weeks ago on 8th October. Here's the pics for the default Classic Stairs Option 2 you pretty much see in all the Waldorf displays. 

Went to visit the World of Style over the weekend. Wasn't intending to, but my Tiles Consultant rang up during the week to inform me that I needed to rechoose one of my Tiles (Belgium Diamond Lapparto) as they have been discontinued.

Plastering pretty much happened straight after lockup. In fact it was booked for the day of lockup but the plasterers didn't show up. That's pretty good of Porter Davis to just get on with the show without waiting for the invoice or my payment. As it turns out, the guys rocked up for work on the Sunday 28th September and the walls were fully plastered by Tuesday. Here's a tour of my plastered house! It's a pretty surreal experience to see the realisation of your 2D plans come to life.   Starting with the entrance, this is the view from the front door. Stairs, powder room, study to the left, the lounge to the right

My Pre Plaster Inspection was carried out by Branko from Building-Expert.net.au . I decided to switch from Houspect because I wasn't completely satisfied with the review process during the slab stage. I found that I wasn't really engaged, and it wasn't explained to me what the issues were, what fixes would be expected, etc. Essentially I paid the fee, got the report emailed to me and that was that.  With Branko, I organised to meet him on site so I could see get explanations on the spot on what the issues were. You will notice the photos are of a bit less than desirable quality. It is because his DSLR battery ran out and he had to revert to his iPhone camera. Such a bummer. For the brickwork, it wasn't washed yet and scaffolding was still up, so he couldn't report much except to say that it looked satisfactory. I happen to think the bricks were amazing but I guess satisfactory is good enough from his standpoint. He did note that expansion joints were all co...

Lockup happened over a week ago Friday 26th September - Week 15 of my build! Everything's moving faster than I can blog, which is a good problem to have! Ever since the scaffolding went up a month ago, there's been 6 to 10 guys working furiously on site, sometimes even on weekends! Here it is fully bricked up, roof, eaves, windows and doors

These are the issues that I spotted myself during the framing stage. It pays to go on to the site regularly so mistakes like these can be fixed early and easily. 1. Frame Overhang The one on the left overhangs by more than 20mm and the right is around 10mm. The standard compliance is 10mm but my site supervisor asked for both to be fixed whilst the concrete guy was there anyway.  You can see the right corner was fixed but left wasn't applied to all of the overhang.