Building the Charlton by Porter Davis : garage roof

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PRACTICAL COMPLETION PART 2

So each weekend hubby, bubs and I would trek out 45 mins each way just to see progress on the house so you can imagine my disappointment when we arrived this week to see all the doors lock and no way in. I know we officially shouldn't be on site without our sit e supervisor anyway and doors should be locked up so I guess I better stop whining.

Our building coordinator is pretty organised when it comes to giving us her updates as it seems to be the same time of the day each fortnight. Although you can't ask her much else about your build because she'll just ask the site supervisor anyway so I don't know why we don't just deal with him direct each week. Anyway progress on this weeks build includes

Showers and mirrors are being measured
Door hardware has been put on (door handles, stoppers etc)
Alfresco roof facias installed
Linen, walk in robes, pantry and galley fit outs
Tiling in progress
Mouldings put onto the front pillars and garage

With the mouldings added we noticed a huge structural error....

can you spot the error?

Architectural Drawings (left) Our Build (right)

Notice how the top window has been built right to the top of the eaves whereas in the drawings the window sits slightly lower from the eaves to enable the mouldings to border the entire window frame. Yup pretty big boo boo.

I raised this with our site supervisor who has agreed that it is a mistake. Normally the windows are set to the top of the roof line so the carpenters must have just assumed this without looking at the plan. This is a costly mistake or as my site supervisor says a "pain in the bum" but because it's in the plan they will fix it no questions asked. Great stuff. I assume this means they'll have to get some scaffolding up, pull down the hebel, plaster and all to redo it all again...such a bummer indeed. A bit suprised this wasn't picked up by our site supervisor earlier?

Stair Cornice Issue Update

If you have been following my blog you'll know that I'm currently trying to sort out an issue I have with a wall below the staircase whereby the supporting beams under the staircase protrude out past the wall preventing the cornices from being able to fully extend to the full length of the wall.

The picture below is is the current solution which I'm not too happy about. What's strange is not every Charlton being built has the same issue so what is so unique about our build? Add to that there is proof (thanks to other fellow Charlton builders out there) that a staircase can be built without the beams sticking out past the wall.

Patch of plaster to make it look like a cornice

and then they try to pretty it up with a cornice end and some paint work.

So I made a trek out to the display and this is how their wall looks. (Yes we have the same floorplan configuration).

Display Home - Of course they would get it looking perfect in the display right.

A huge thank you to all of you that have responded and supported me with this issue. So glad to know that I'm not just being difficult. As I understand our site supervisor is still investigating and will compare plans between our build and that of the display as well as other Charlton builds currently in progress either that or he has gone silent.

Mouldings put on garage and pillars
We made an error in provisioning the light fittings higher than the mouldings instead it should be the other way round.

Grand Alfresco - Roof in progress. Roof tiles booked in for this coming week.

Excuse the poor quality of photos as they were taken from outside as I am now locked out of the house.

Tiling in progress

Tiling done!
National Tiles: Como Grey Matt 450 X 450 with light grey grout

You can see they have also tiled the laundry wall
white matt tiles in subway or brick lay with iceberg white grout

Downstairs bathroom

Shelves fitted in the Kitchen Galley

handover date?

With the build in its final phase you can start to expect an approximate handover date, ours has been set for mid January which to be honest with you is pretty hopeful. I'm no builder but there seems like an awful lot to do. Let's see