So the brickies started on site last week and are storming ahead. Brick of choice is the Windorah. It’s so hard to select colours from the small sample boards, looks like the Windorah bricks goes well with the Bushland roof. Eastern side has been going well, the outdoor room and about half the other walls [...]
Listening to
- The Jam – Absolute Beginners
- The Fray – Absolute
- Jewel – Absence of Fear - This Little Bird
- Loudon Wainwright III – Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
- José González – Abram
- Essential Sixties – Abraham, martin & John
- The Hives – Abra Cadaver
- Millenium – Above This World
- Paul Weller – Above The Clouds
- Portishead – About You
Browsing Posts in Building & Renovation
The builder has charged ahead a busy couple of weeks. The roof & gutters have gone on. Colorbond Bushland was our colour of choice, looks like it will blend nicely with the surrounding trees. Internal services have been installed. Plumbing seems to go every where, I hope they’ve done the connections tight, don’t want any [...]
You’ve got to love pre-fab framing, a week after the slab was poured the builder has not only put up the wall framing but also the roof trusses. Starting to get a sense of the views we will have. If only we could cut down all those trees we’d have views to Brisbane city. Still [...]
Our builder has now advised us that if we want to keep the double hung windows, it will cost an extra $6,000 to get windows that comply with the BAL40 bushfire rating. Bugger that! So after a bit of discussion & research, we’re going to have to settle on sliding windows. We didn’t want awning windows [...]
So council sends our application to remove protected vegetation back asking us to update the bushfire report and plans to account for the tree removal inside the building location envelope (BLE). So off we go to the consultant to get a revised report, thinking that there would be no change to the bushfire attack level [...]
