Insulation Madness
June 3, 2014
What an enormous job - I take my hat off to Charles getting up on that shaky scaffold and doing the roof insulation!
Krystin has also climbed up there and has done the high walls and some ceiling insulation too, plus lots of walls.
Definitely not something I would have been comfortable doing.
Our insulation is R4.1 plus we have R1.5 sarking... total of R5.6.... let it snow, we won't mind!
The plumbers have turned the outside into a maze of trenches, everytime you step outside you just about fall into one!
The best sight and sound so far was all that lovely rainwater filling our water tank finally! yay! The plumbers connected up the downpipes just before it rained.. :)
The nimble and flexible electricians are to be seen crawling around and through the timber framework, sliding, twisting and stretching and pulling wires every which way... looks like spaghetti hanging down from the rafters, glad they know what they are doing. The insulation fibres are driving them insane I'm sure!
The other day our front yard looked like a car lot. I have never seen so many cars parked there - the building inspector asked where the party was.... I wish!... not yet... still a ways to go!
Our massive front door/window frame finally got fixed and has been put in - what a saga that has been, and not to mention expensive as all hell! What can I say.... sh*t happens, just wish it didn't cost so much to repair.
Next big news was finally sourcing gyprockers.... they are as rare as hen's teeth in Jindaybne at the moment. The mountain lodge people can afford to pay the local guys spectacular rates just to get them to finish their lodges before the openning of the season - a week away now (only a dusting of snow as yet!). So mere mortals like us have to look further afield - we have gyprockers from Canberra... so that of course means providing accomodation as well, sigh!
Anyway, the gyprock has been delivered - a massive amount of course - probably another 3 weeks of work there.
Charles has been slogging away for over 2 weeks now, he's feeling very tired but he continues to soldier on - amazing effort, and all with staying in Sally Supreme as the temperatures are plummeting.
It's a long way to the top...
Meanwhile, up in the mezzanine
Mezzanine
Not for the feint of heart
Where's the party?
Last to leave..
Sunset over the Grosses Plains Creek
Krystin has also climbed up there and has done the high walls and some ceiling insulation too, plus lots of walls.
Definitely not something I would have been comfortable doing.
Our insulation is R4.1 plus we have R1.5 sarking... total of R5.6.... let it snow, we won't mind!
The plumbers have turned the outside into a maze of trenches, everytime you step outside you just about fall into one!
The best sight and sound so far was all that lovely rainwater filling our water tank finally! yay! The plumbers connected up the downpipes just before it rained.. :)
The nimble and flexible electricians are to be seen crawling around and through the timber framework, sliding, twisting and stretching and pulling wires every which way... looks like spaghetti hanging down from the rafters, glad they know what they are doing. The insulation fibres are driving them insane I'm sure!
The other day our front yard looked like a car lot. I have never seen so many cars parked there - the building inspector asked where the party was.... I wish!... not yet... still a ways to go!
Our massive front door/window frame finally got fixed and has been put in - what a saga that has been, and not to mention expensive as all hell! What can I say.... sh*t happens, just wish it didn't cost so much to repair.
Next big news was finally sourcing gyprockers.... they are as rare as hen's teeth in Jindaybne at the moment. The mountain lodge people can afford to pay the local guys spectacular rates just to get them to finish their lodges before the openning of the season - a week away now (only a dusting of snow as yet!). So mere mortals like us have to look further afield - we have gyprockers from Canberra... so that of course means providing accomodation as well, sigh!
Anyway, the gyprock has been delivered - a massive amount of course - probably another 3 weeks of work there.
Charles has been slogging away for over 2 weeks now, he's feeling very tired but he continues to soldier on - amazing effort, and all with staying in Sally Supreme as the temperatures are plummeting.
It's a long way to the top... Meanwhile, up in the mezzanine Mezzanine Not for the feint of heartWhere's the party? Sunset over the Grosses Plains CreekPosted by Wanda Lach. Posted In : House Building
There have been some very cold mornings and we were just waiting for the first 'real' frost of the season and we weren't disappointed. The early morning sunrays bedazzled the icy layer sending multi coloured sparkles this way and that! The downside was the frozen water pipes! We had forgotten to disconnect and drain the water before we went to bed... luckily we have repaced most of those now with hoses that have some room to expand and contract unlike the old copper pipes - still - it did me... 
garage exterior complete
Eastern wall
front veranda and painted posts
garage before mini-orb put under eaves
The marks on the roof are a manufacturing problem. We have been waiting a very long time for the builders to sort this one out but the way it works is that the manufacturers will replace the roof but we have to put it up (i.e. we have to PAY someone to replace it...) sigh! think it will be cheaper to have it spray painted! Any takers?
front veranda
view from kitchen
master bedroom
view from lounge room across kitchen and up into mezzanine
the 'formal entry'
view into kitchen area
