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Niko Niko House: Moving forward
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Friday, 2 September 2011. There are some great news today! First we received the report from our independent inspector Howard Ryan. He found a few other minor issues we haven't noticed at the PCI. But other than that the report gives an award to our site supervisor for delivering a house of a high standard of finish. Given that's the 14th award of this type out of 8000 inspection he gives, this makes us very happy to know Metricon has delivered a quality product.
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Niko Niko House: March 2011
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Saturday, 26 March 2011. More bricks to see. The front of the house did not seem to have changed since last weekend. But at least some work has been done at the back. There isn't much progress but at least we can see how the bricks look with the mortar. The bricks looks much lighter with the mortar. Close up of the dropped edge beam (about 1m high). After cleaning it should look much like the sample wall at Austral Bricks. Sunday, 20 March 2011. Bricking started. sort of.
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Niko Niko House: June 2011
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Tuesday, 28 June 2011. As we are rethinking our landscaping plan we went to Mr Bamboo. To get some advice on which type of bamboo we could use as a screen between us and our neighbour to the South of our land. The plan we lodged (in a hurry) with our DA included Tiger Grass for screening but we prefer bamboo. Slender Weaver grows up to 6 metres (but we will trim it to 3 metres). Close up of the leaves. Saturday, 25 June 2011. There is a kitchen! I talked to our customer serv...
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Niko Niko House: May 2011
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Saturday, 28 May 2011. Today we went on site to meet with an independent inspector ( Howard Ryan. We decided to hire for a frame stage inspection. He will also do our PCI later. Howard has been very good at providing a report very quick. He also gives lots of good advice and he is always happy to answer and question we may have. For us it was also an occasion to have a good look inside the house and take many photos! Here is where we are at now:. It is not painted yet. The u...
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Niko Niko House: Chicken and Egg
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Wednesday, 31 August 2011. Nothing can ever be simple when building a new home. We learnt that our Private Certifier Authority (PCA) cannot issue our interim certificate of occupancy until we comply with condition #25 of the council's development consent. Condition #25 is the addition of a privacy screen on our front balcony. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Close look at the house exterior. We have a garage door. The Blogs I Follow. Shayne and Jason build a house.
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Niko Niko House: External Colours
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Thursday, 12 August 2010. Today we had our contract presentation and external colour selection appointment. There are few minor things that needs to be corrected on the contract. This will be addressed with a list of variations. We decided to postpone the final contract signature until all the issues are fixed. Here are our final external colours:. Bricks: Austral Everyday Life Activate. The real brick looks more grey than this picture). Roof: Bristile Designer Malle.
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Niko Niko House: Electrical Selections
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Friday, 26 November 2010. Not much is happening with the council. We are waiting for our DA to be reviewed at the next DAU (Development Assessment Unit) meeting, which is on the 7th December. In the meantime we finally locked down our electrical selections, after five revisions of the electrical plan. Our electrical upgrades ends up being just under $10K. Ouch! Here is what we've added to the standard electrical plan:. External junction boxes for future lights. An additional...
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straw sticks & bricks: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Spying is ok when its posted free for all. Ok, so I have been stalking some blogs of people that are building with Eden Brae - we all pick from the same home gallery etc - so I thought it would be worth it. It seems browns and greys are big. Grey it seems is the safer option for floors with people. It annoys me that brown is happening because I don't want to be like everyone else. oh well - we will go with what works. The brown bathroom does work with edenbraebuild. I looked thr...
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Niko Niko House: Photo Snapshots
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Building the Metricon Laguna. This page shows snapshots of our site during the construction. Scroll down to see the house being built! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lets put some flooring. Two more sleeps and its ours. The Blogs I Follow. Stonecutters Ridge hosting the NSW Open. Shayne and Jason build a house. Landscaping - Part Two. The backyard. Building our dream home with Eden Brae - the Windsor 46. Building our life on the links. Brrr - it's getting cold! Sandrine and Craig's "New Haven".
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Niko Niko House: PCI
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Building the Metricon Laguna. Monday, 29 August 2011. Today was our PCI (Practical Completion Inspection). It went for a good two hours at the end of which we had a list of 10 or so issues. Not much, really. We are quite happy with the quality of the work. Well done, Metricon! We put many blue stickers to point any scratches that will need to be patched. Our SS himself added a few we haven't even spotted. He was quite helpful and really trying to make us the customer happy. Nice. The big ones are:. The B...
