More demolition

George, our plasterer, and his team, moved into the space to begin the first step of transforming the interior space. But first, we needed to see more demolition work done to the front house.  The existing hard plaster was stripped to allow the walls to be plumbed and straightened, creating a clean base for the new plasterboards.

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!

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!)

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!

Painting

The painters arrived on Christmas Eve to start painting the exterior...

Painting Lightcourt 1

Painting started to the weatherboards outside...Gee I hope they remove the ivy to that gutter.

The verandah also looks rather precarious...waiting for the builder to fix that up.

Do I like the smell of fresh paint or what....

Looks new and refreshed....

The upper terraces are also tanked.

Details

Just thought I'd take a few shots of the details of the old and the new....and the in-between...

Glazed

The glass has finally been installed - Lightcourt 2

The large skylight over the kitchen has been glazed too!

Skylight over our study area

What a mess....at least the contractors are on site and working!

Lots of conduits

The roof plumber doing acrobatics up on the roof....