Sunday, January 16, 2011

Sunday clean up

Over the Christmas break, we received notice from council that a complaint was filed by our neighbours regarding the bluestone laneway.  As it turned out, the renderers had left a mess behind, with cement and render all over the rear bluestone laneway.  Our builder had gone on holidays and was uncontactable!  As a result, we had to go and clean it up ourselves otherwise we would receive a fine from the Council!
It was extremely frustrating...can't believe we were doing this on a perfectly sunny Sunday afternoon!


Muck stuck on the bluestone

Dried up render over the bluestone



Breaking up the render and muck and sweeping it up!

After an hour of brushing, already it looked a bit better.

Jason hosing down the laneway

Hopefully it will satisfy the Council!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Rendering

The renderers here to start rendering the exterior.  
Pictured here protecting the window and frames.

Base coat done in the lightcourt. Feels different already!

Setting up at the rear


Final coat done. (although can't believe they have missed some parts of the rear elevation!)

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Staircase

The internal MDF stairs were erected while we were away on our Christmas break, to our surprise.




Thank you to my parents for visiting!