So much to update you on since our big move weekend and weeks that followed (can you believe that Telstra have still not connected our TV, phone and internet?!) so I will try to keep it brief with lots of pics yay!
In summary:
Installation of wood flooring and carpet
Electrical fit out - including 50 or more LED down lights, pendant lights, bathroom vents, LED strip lighting, fans, external lighting etc etc
Move day
Termite and pest spray
Excavation of the backyard to give a more level ground and tidy up of the block
driveway was cut in
Josh and Alex prepped the driveway, marked it out, leveled and had the concrete poored - this was a week long process.
Fence posts and palings were sourced, collected and delivered
Fence post holes were dug, concrete poored and posts went in
Portico deck
Summer was bathed hehe
While all this was going on tradies were coming and going at the house to fix a few teething problems and people were arriving to quote for curtains, shutters, turf, retaining walls and so on! Crazy last 3 weeks to say the least.
Alex worked tirelessly putting in all of the lights with Scotty and again on the driveway with Josho. Josh did the most amazing job on our massive driveway! Such a large task for one guy and although he wasnt happy with the finish on the middle section (Josh is an absolute perfectionist and such a hard worker!) Alex and I are just ever so grateful that he did it for us and we are not worried about the finish that only another concretor would be able to pick up! While the boys worked away I made sure they were fed and hydrated haha. Thanks to Josho, Nath and Grant for helping us get there in the end.
Ben from Performance Excavators has done all of our excavation needs and did an amazing job at it. So glad we found him. He's a local super chilled out surfie dude from the area ha!
By this weekend we should have the front yard turfed and a deck to the alfresco area. Alex will also be working away at the fence palings with whatever help I can provide!
The photos are all jumbled up and after trying to re-arrange them a bazillion times and them not co-operating, I've given up!
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| New deck to the portico |
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| Fence palings being delivered |
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| Half the fence posts in |
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| After shot of wood flooring install |
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| Day 3 - final section of driveway |
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| Day 1 - section 1 of concrete |
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| Section 2 of driveway |
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| After shot of excavation |
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| Shot of the backyard before the excavation work |
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| Before shots of backyard |
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| After excavation shot |
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| POD delivery bang on time again |
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| wood flooring install |
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| Before - wood flooring |
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| Josho working away on the driveway |
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| day 2 - section 2 of concrete with few extra helpers at hand |
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| Fence posts are up |
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| This is similar to what we want to build |
I love the timber floors! So perfect. How is everything going post handover?
ReplyDeleteThank you! Everything is going really well. It was a little slow in the beginning as we have done a lot of the landscaping works ourselves, we had 2-3 weeks delay due to bad weather and my partner works away so we could only do work every fortnight! So nice to be in the house though, we love it. Are you having people do your landscaping works for you?
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