Due to our builder, Mark’s surfing holiday he did what he could before leaving but was careful to leave key roof components of the house intact (such as the roof). However to keep things moving he replaced the cladding on the south side of the house. We used Linea weatherboard which is a cement composite. Our previous cladding appeared to be little more than paper and so had rotted through.
Actually surfing. It’s the builder (Mark) – he’s gone surfing in Indonesia. So work has stopped for 10 days… Hopefully he’ll be back in one piece, refreshed and eager to rip our roof off as soon as he returns…
We are adding an upper floor to the existing bungalow:
Upstairs
And we are renovating downstairs, not only with a new layout but also some remedial work, new flooring throughout,new windows and new cladding outside.
Downstairs
The cladding on the south side of the house has been ripped off together with a couple of the windows. We found nest of bull ants inside Kayvon’s window frame – no wonder he was always complaining of getting bitten at night…
Kayvon’s ex-window
Kayvon’s ants
Dead ants
The scaffolding has gone up, providing endless new opportunities for the kids to do the wrong thing (or have fun).
Kayvon climbs the scaffolding
We first started looking at timber floors 7 years ago. It’s taken us that long, but today we finally decided on Brushbox.
The porch decking has been ripped up in readiness for new joists and spotted gum timber decking. The builder delighted the children by telling them about the redback spider nests he found under the deck.
Kayvon & the ex-porch
An Agricultural Drain (or agg drain) is installed to reduce the moisture at the front of the house.
After almost 8 years of considering, planning, saving, thinking, dreaming and changing our minds, today the building starts! Woo hoo! Of course the design stage started back in May so we have been working hard on it for a few months already.
We thought we’d try blogging about our experiences as we go, so stay tuned…
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