Ground floor frame

Today's progress was not as "wow" as yesterday, probably because there were 6 guys yesterday but only 2 today.

With the powder room walls and the walls between stairs and kitchen/pantry done, the frames for ground floor are completed now (I think), and the guys have started on work for the "ceiling" (?) of the ground floor.






The main entrance door frame and the translucent sidelights are in. Without any protective layer on the glass sidelights, we're keeping an eye on when the glasses will start to get scratches.



Door frame for laundry is up too.

Here comes the BILL... and the frame

We've received the bill for stage 1 from PD today. Not as efficient as we thought :)

Had a quick chat with SS this morning. This is our first chat and he sounds like a nice chap. Was asking him is it possible to add some noggins and few other things, and he's alright with that.

Anyway, there has been a good progress in the building. The guys arrived early and started on building of the frames. By the end of first day of framing, the ground floor is almost completed, except for the powder room walls and the walls between stairs and kitchen/pantry.











Happened to notice the pipes in kitchen are slanted, and there is another one behind, probably for the gas. Not sure is this ok... need to have a chat with SS when meeting him on site.

Concrete Slab Done

Drop by the lot this morning not expecting much happenings because the frame for slab was completed yesterday and according to PD, pouring of slab will only happen next Monday.

However, a big thingy has parked next to our lot and few guys standing in our lot were ready to get their hands dirty. That's right!! They were waiting for concrete from that big thingy!

Now that we have a slab, I wonder how efficient will PD be in collecting $$$ for the first stage...

248 Days to Complete

Received a letter from PD today to confirm the start date of the construction, and will take 248 days to complete. Why 248?? According to the contract, that includes public holidays, wet weather allowance etc? Will there be extra delay due to Christmas/New Year break?? Not sure, will have to check with CS from PD.

Based to PD's schedule below, we're kind of ahead of schedule... not surprising when work actually began before the official start date.

WEEK 1
Site start is the day that all construction starts on site, usually when home is set out on the block. Hire items will be delivered, any excavation work done, under slab drains are laid and electrical connection cable is laid.

We're now in concrete slab preparation. The formwork and steel reinforcement were done this morning. Here are some pics.

Final Drawings

Here are our finalized the drawings


Facade - Arlington



Elevation B



Elevation C



Elevation D



Floor Plan - Ground Floor



Floor Plan - Upper Floor



Electrical Plan - Ground Floor



Electrical Plan - Upper Floor

Today Is The Day!

Today is the official start date for our 30 week building process.

Though we have not receive any calls from the site supervisor, but work had already begin at our lot few days before the actual start date.


Stakes that form the outline of the plan (?)



Temporary fencing set up



Plumbing work before slab pour



End of Day 1

Another Surprise

Drop by our lot few days ago and saw the big bin already setup, so today just thought of going back there to take a picture and say "We have a bin!". To our surprise, not only was the bin there, the loo and the cross-over protection was there too. Can't believe we can be so excited over a loo!






Other than the loo, we were also thrilled that work had actually begin on our lot as the excavator has actually started scraping the site! We were not told of any work start nor receive any call from site supervisor introducing himself. In fact, we've only received the Final Working Drawings last Thursday and sorted out few minor issues only this morning, and we have yet to sign the drawings and send them back to PD. Hmm.. does this mean today is the start of Week 1?