External Ground works

Arrived on site yesterday but no radiators or piping had arrived for the plumbing to start work!! This will definitely delay the move in time as we can't start the flooring without the plumbing work being completed!!

Tiles for the downstairs are on order and being delivered next week so will have to delay the tiler and the Kitchen installation :-(((
May not be in the house now before I head back to work from my Maternity Leave.

On the plus side the external ground work has being going on - all drains around the house have been put in, hardcore laid out and getting ready to put in the footpaths around the house :-).
The Bio Cycle unit has arrived which hopefully will be installed over the next few days.

Below are the latest pics.

So much more to do!!

Items Completed:

Site breakthrough and set up for build start
Build Stage 1-3 paid for and completed.
Build Stage 4 completed and stage 5 underway
Tiles selected and ordered for downstairs Kitchen/dining/hallway/utility
Wooden floor selected, paid & ordered - walnut - for downstairs seperate living room
Wooden floor selected, paid & ordered - birch - for all rooms & landing upstairs (except bathrooms)
ESB connection applied for; and paid for as was approved connection.
Kitchen selected and finalised
Double bed & bedside lockers for master bedroom
Shower tray & glass wall selected and ordered for the ensuite
Main Bath selected - NICE !!!
All sinks, loos, taps etc selected, paid for and ordered
Bought a sofa & 2 chairs about 6/7 years ago; in sis's house so will have to move them into my place
Got a free second table & chairs which will most certainly do till we need buy one when we have money!!!


Items to be Done:
Tiler selected and booked to complete the downstairs tiling before Kitchen is fitted
Wood floors to be laid ... aaaaggghhh ... the cost of it all!!!
The bathroom & ensuite tiles to be selected
Chippy in to create the surround for the bath which is to be tiled.....
Kitchen cooker, extractor hood & fridge freezer date for delivery to be finalised
Washing machine and dryer to be selected & ordered
Plumbing of wood stove, buffer tank, HRV & Solar panel to be organised ... must contact builder on best time for this in the schedule???
Double check on the extractor fan hole in the wall with the builder??
Get the stove flues quote and finalisation of dates to be installed with kiely stoves
Eircom for telephone connection
County council for water connection (who are on 'work to rule' and can't get through to them via phone and pretty stuck due to caring for baby too!!)
Once electric cert completed get ESB in for Electricity connection
Pay for the kitchen due to be paid next week!!
Pay the Stage 4 to the builder due end of this week !! (stage 4 of 5 stages)
Pay tiler and for wood floor to be layed aaaaghhhhh
Covering the concrete stairs .... with what & How?
Outside light fittings, internal light fittings!!!
Bar stools for the kitchen island unit
..........I know there is more to be added to the list but my head is now fried!!!

Internal Walls Spray Painted white

Yay! The plaster was dry enough to get the internal walls spray painted. The inside looks even more amazing :-))
We decided to get this done so we could move in quickly without any delay but also ensure that the walls behind the radiators once installed would be painted first.

Below are some pics of how fabulous the internal walls are now :-))

Internal Plastering

The downstairs family/Kitchen/dining room plastered - first pic shows the back wall and the second pic shows the long windows. The windows are covered in plastic on the outside as the external rendering is going on also.

The other rooms all plastered and drying out...

External rendering underway - June

The external rendering is underway while the internal plastering dries out. House is looking fab.

Next post will have the internal shots of the rooms fully plastered with a coat of white paint plus the external render completed with scaffolding down.


Below are some of the pictures taken during the rendering process, firstly they skimmed a coat of cement over the ICF; then once dried a coat of adhesive was applied (in 1 day!) then the white acrylic render was applied (1.5 days*2men!!).






Pictures of the cement finish drying before the adhesive was applied.







Below is the side of the house shots of the acrylic white rendering with scaffolding still up :- )
All the windows were lined with plastic as applying the white rendering is such a messy job!!!

May Update

Kitchen spec'd out and design finalised. Update Kitchen area with the Kitchen electrics :-))

All electrics installed into the house by now, approved & signed off. Yipeee!!!!

Over the next few weeks we will have the internal plastering to be completed, along with the external rendering :-)))))
The internal plastering is to be completed by the June Bank Holiday weekend so we can't wait to see this :-))

Chris and I are driving each other totally mad as we can't agree on any bathroom white goods and the house flooring LOL :-)) Ah the joys of shopping for the house !!!! Hopefully we will be still on speaking terms by the time the house is ready to move into LOL

March Update

Well it was a long wet & cold winter for Ireland!!! Plus we had a beautiful baby girl in January! As a result more delays in build work plus decision making.
With Chris travelling all over the world Dec 09, January & February 2010 and me with new baby (first time Mum) in January & February we were just way to busy to do anything with the house :-(( Hence the delays with the house and with the blog!!! Baby certainly too all my time and priority ... she is a joy!!

Well finally in March we had the entire house electrical spec'd out and electrician on site for the electrics. Chris put in surround sound speaker wire for the TV's plus speaker cable for other music as we intend to fully use the Apple wireless technology throughout the house.

Next stop is the kitchen to finalise; and onto first fix :-))