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
A pic of the kitchen showing the electrical wiring, gas line, plumbing, exhaust pipe, insulation to the external walls, and the heating/cooling pipes in the theatre room to the right. Also noticeable is that garage entry 2250mm short door
HDMI and network cabling to the theatre room
Shared bathroom upstairs showing the bath hob, in wall toilet, and plumbing. Note the positioning of the mixer is in the wrong position and I've asked the supervisor to move it to the middle, under the niche.
Here's the monster Brivis heater with insulation under it (which my independent inspector was impressed with because this is something that he says always gets missed out)
A shot from the back corner...
A shot from the front corner
And one from the front without all the scaffolding hiding it. 
I've been super impressed with my brickies, Matt and Jordan.So much so that I've given then some going away presents. They've been super friendly, sociable, helpful, and most of all done a magnificient job!
Looks great, can't believe how quickly it's going up!
ReplyDeletesame here! The speed they're going at is impressive. Hope it continues :)
DeleteThat is one awesome house you have there!
ReplyDeletealmost as awesome as yours! :)
Deletevery nice! we had originally been planning to go with the Chatsworth facade on our Marriott as well, but ended up with the Sterling. Looks like it would have been fine choosing the Chatsworth too.
ReplyDeleteI remember that! You made the stirling look about the same too right? ie. reduce the width and centered the balcony?
DeleteYour HT room, is that an electrical cable taped to your HDMI? Electrical wires should never run alongside of HDMI cables, you'll run into interference issues, especially if the electrical wires are noisy.
ReplyDeleteYes. Good pickup! Have you seen it done differently?
DeleteYeah, running any electrical cables parallel against a data cable, hdmi, xlr or otherwise is non compliance. It should always cross at 90 degree angle. We had a host of these types of issues at our frame stage and PD had to pretty much rewire most of our house.
DeleteThanks Jack! Much appreciated! Just read that it should also have a minimum separation of 50mm. I'm going to bring this up with my SS.
DeleteYou're welcome. Btw, that is the minimum, but professional cablers I know put them at 100mm as standard. You can still get interference at 50mm if the noise is really severe.
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