Day 151: We’ve come along way in the last 49 days. Last week the final coat of render and exterior paint was completed. Will still have some of the boards above the garage to be painted as the garage roof only just went on. Plasterers are scheduled to start plastering tomorrow and should take 1-2 weeks to complete. After than we should have our kitchen and staircase installed. We are now at lockup stage. Metricon says we have between 8-12 weeks remaining. Please, please, please be less!
Pinevale
Day 143: The scaffolding was taken down this week. The second coat of render has been done. Still one more color to go. Most of the internals appear to be almost ready for insulation and plaster.
Day 102: Between day 46 and day 102 we’ve had 43 days without anyone on site. We were told my Metricon that there would be a few people working through Christmas. However that didn’t turn out to be the case.
Day 46: Frame is complete. Wrap has commenced. Roof tiles are completed. Bricks have kind of started. Just waiting for the scaffolding to go up…
Day 19: We’re very surprised to see our frame started so soon. Things are going along pretty smoothly ‘at the moment’.
Day 17: We have a concrete slab! Frame to start on Monday. Metricon have been awesome since starting construction. They’ve kept us regularly updated, and something has happened every day other than Melbourne Cup day.
After 72 days since contract signing, we have a site start! Without any notice or communication from Metricon, something we’re slowly getting used to, we arrived at our block on Wednesday night to find the retaining walls in place. The following day the site cut and fill was completed. We’ve cut 600 mm to a fill of 1200 mm. We’re scheduled to have the base stage completed in about 10 days.
2 week delay
At week 6 we have run into a two week delay. Due to the elevated position of our block; 6 m above our neighbours, our building permit cannot be approved until our neighbours have had 14 days to object. That 14 days ends next Wednesday. Our fingers are crossed; hopefully we can proceed without any further delays.
