TheGodwit we went well with the windows. They are heavy but really good quality. The builder and my husband did the installation with…

TheGodwit - sure Arron.
If you look at page 1 and 6 for reference. These have the floor layout plan and external facade plans.
The…

TheGodwit - the price for bricks was double that of orangeboard. Plus I have to factor insulation cost for the bricks portion.
The windows…

Thanks for the photos and progress updates.
Couple of questions:
What exactly are we looking at there, with those rendered surfaces? Is that render over brick on the ground floor (photos 2,3,4),…

amilelka thanks. Sorry haven't posted in a while. The scaffolding is up so can't show much at the moment.

Scaffolding up, rendering completed today. We had a small delay as we were working on the feature elements on the facade however decisions made turned out for the better.

Downstairs…

Looking good Hillsbuilds. Are they aluminium or PVC window's?

hillsbuilds please do. I am loving it. They are amazing out there. And I am learning a lot.

hillsbuilds I have discovered a better world on Instagram for home builders
It's amazing - thanks gogo65.…

Hillsbuilds thanks mate... Anyways onwards And upwards 😀 I am hoping to be at lockup by mid may. I am sure you will…

Hillsbuilds ...I feel like crawling in the woodwork of my framing.... Tell me about it! All because of double brick. I am pretty…

I have to agree with gogo65. People, builders and public put in a lot of money to build and they certainly don't want…

alexp79 you really need to look at yourself and your responses. You either have your knickers in a twist because this is a…

cag57 I have huge huge thermally broken double glazed windows and sliding doors that are 100mm and 150mm wide/ thick with argon gas.…

It's not traditional double brick.

Andsonsvd thank you. You are correct!

alexp79 I have seen some portion of double brick mate. Again we have different forms of cladding so I know what I saw.…

Our sliding doors have been a great world of pain. The installation cost has been exorbitant however our builder has come to the rescue. We saved about $6-9k in installation.…

Thanks gogo65 and amilelka

Some more stuff happening behind the scenes. amilelka we got the swatches 😀
Our exterior will have louvres (I don't have a sample for…

Hillsbuilds how you going mate? Haven't heard from you in a while

So the internal doors have been selected. I have created a mood board.
We will have frosted glass doors in the laundry and master walk in robe upstairs. The frosted glass…

gogo65. We should be at lockup by mid May if weather holds 😀

gogo65
Interesting you say that as we were worried about that. What I did was to get samples from colorbond as I met them…

amilelka I didn't get a chance to get the swatches. But I chose my internal doors instead 😆
I will share soon.

Yea makes more sense. Thanks alexp79

amilelka thanks ...I am currently just debating the white on white or natural white colour render on walls. Tomorrow is a day to…

Ok so a lot of people have been asking me about our facade. I have attached our elevations below.
The elevation shows the rammed earth wall, white walls downstairs and snaplock…