Its been a while... but stuff is happening...

Its been a while since i last put anything up here... Things are seem to be slowing down and the changes day to day are a lot smaller than when the block and house first started.

The bricks were completed about 2 weeks ago. Good to see the bricks and weatherboard side by side. Wasn't 100% sure how they would look so its a good thing we like it :-)
   

Since these photos were taken, the bricks have been washed and the mortar dried so the color is more even than what is in the above photos.

We have a laundry door, which is exciting. Apparently this was a spare Cedar door, so we got it at no extra cost :-)

As our land released in our estate has no copper installed for a phoneloan, and will be the one of the first estates to be fitted for the NBN, we had to get our house wired up differently. In short, We need conduit from the front of the block to the side of the house, and then conduit from the side of our house into a locaction in the house where all networking points etc will be. We have the inside conduit ran, and will get the outer done when we dont have a big garbage skip and portaloo in the way of where they need to dig.

 

2 pics above show the NBN conduit. On the left is the conduit on the outside of our house, and on the right is under the staircase where all the network and TV aerial cables will run back too.

Speaking of which... have been installed today.

Both the above pics are photos of all the cables under the stairs. There are 9 TV coax cables run to different locatoins, plus 2 spare in case we ever get Foxtel downstairs, and 1 point that will run to the Aerial. In all, 12 Coax cables running back to our rack.

Networking.... There are 18 cables running to different locations in the house. As its the NBN and the internet equipment will be in this rack, this will give us the ability to patch through internet or phone line to any of the data points throughout the house.

A lot of these are probably overkill, but would rather over do it, then in a years time wish we had done something. Anywhere downstairs, which is all the kids bedrooms and a living room, would not be able to have anything extra run to it once the plaster is on the walls. Best to get in now and get everything we will ever need (hopefully) done.

We had the Evaporative cooling installed earlier, and just found out that the central heating the builder is installing is the same brand so they will be able to talk and both run off the 1 remote. We are very excited by that. It wasn't planned, it just happened to work out that way.

Electrical work is currently being put in. This should be done be very early next week, and then plasterboards will be going in on Thursday. Its all getting very very serious.

We will be in the house in less than 3 months (fingers crossed).