Thread: how long to draw up plans??

Originally Posted by womble

...the wall oven has a small dimple in the bloody faceplate ....

See if they will swap the face plate, our fridge arrived with a damaged door, they replaced the door at our place.

You'll be glad when it is all finished I bet, I'm getting a bit sick of living in a house that is in pieces everywhere.

some more progress, if only a little! Builders came back for a day, got the front of the house looking more presentable with new cladding and door. I thought they would have put more chamferboards up near the bedroom windows as the old ones are a bit daggy and there was plenty of new timber still left over...but they havent been back for another couple of weeks...wish they would finish it off so we can have steps out the front door!!

Tiles are down and finished, pretty happy with the tiler too considering he laid them without using spacers, just went by eye. Plumber has to cut a hole in one for the toilet to go through though...

Bathroom windows are painted and puttied, the putty is a bit wider than it should be so you can see it looking from inside but I'm not too worried about it, and wont be scraping it back to redo again!! I got them pretty neat looking overall, not as good as the old blokes who used to do it for a living though! Just waiting for the putty to skin over so I can paint it but there is endless bloody rain here as always so will be waiting a while I suppose...

Womble,
most tilers I know rarely use spacers as they will only work if all the tiles are exactly the same size. The standard for 1st grade tiles allows 0.5% variation +/-. On a 300mm tile that's +/- 1.5mm, so variations in size of up to 3mm. That soon adds up if you use fixed spacing. Usually they set out the floor for the tiles with some chalklines and straightedged lines.

So when are you moving in?

Mick

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

Womble,
most tilers I know rarely use spacers as they will only work if all the tiles are exactly the same size. The standard for 1st grade tiles allows 0.5% variation +/-. On a 300mm tile that's +/- 1.5mm, so variations in size of up to 3mm. That soon adds up if you use fixed spacing. Usually they set out the floor for the tiles with some chalklines and straightedged lines.

So when are you moving in?

Mick

don't know probably next year!! (hopefully sooner tho...)

bathroom painted, pretty happy with the scheme, just need to clean up some edges

Originally Posted by womble

don't know probably next year!! (hopefully sooner tho...)

Christmas!! Tell 'em all Christmas!!!

There are only two dates in the building industry, and you didn't make Easter!

Like so many others, I'll have been anxiously following this thread for two years come Christmas, and womble, while I don't want to hijack it or in anyway take from the fabulous job you're doing on the house (and entertaining us!), may I remind all that the thread is actually called "how long to draw up plans?"

I think it's been a great reminder to all, that the time invested in nutting the thing out is irrelevant in the scheme of things. It all seems so urgent in the beginning...we've got to get started after all, and started as soon as possible or we won't be finished for Easter!

So plan slowly and thoroughly, and don't worry about saving a day or two in the beginning. It's the last bit that takes the time!

Cheers, (and keep up the good work!)

P

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Christmas!! Tell 'em all Christmas!!!

There are only two dates in the building industry, and you didn't make Easter!................

Like the poor lady I know locally who finally moved into her (almost) completed house in January, she was promised she'd be in her place Christmas 2005!

Mick

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Originally Posted by bitingmidge

Christmas!! Tell 'em all Christmas!!!

There are only two dates in the building industry, and you didn't make Easter!

Like so many others, I'll have been anxiously following this thread for two years come Christmas, and womble, while I don't want to hijack it or in anyway take from the fabulous job you're doing on the house (and entertaining us!), may I remind all that the thread is actually called "how long to draw up plans?"

I think it's been a great reminder to all, that the time invested in nutting the thing out is irrelevant in the scheme of things. It all seems so urgent in the beginning...we've got to get started after all, and started as soon as possible or we won't be finished for Easter!

So plan slowly and thoroughly, and don't worry about saving a day or two in the beginning. It's the last bit that takes the time!

Cheers, (and keep up the good work!)

P

I did try to rename the thread a while ago but no luck... Should rename it the neverending story

The main work is done apart from the front steps, but the devil is in the details of course with replacing windows, stripping paint, fixing floors etc etc

Has to be liveable before the baby is born in a couple of months!

Originally Posted by womble

... but the devil is in the details of course ....!

Know what you mean... I'm currently sitting at home waiting for the plumber to arrive.
He needs to do some stuff before the tiler can finish & then once the tiler is finished, the plumber can come back & finish.

steps are finally going on the front, butterfly configuration. Plumber has been, hopefully coming back next week to finish off connections for the water and gas.

and its finally cleared up weather wise, no bloody rain for almost 2 whole days now!!!

front steps coming along, iron replaced on the front window as well. A new trench was dug for drainage purposes, a pipe will take water from the gutter and run-off from the hill above us

Originally Posted by womble

Roughly what sort of costs are involved with plans as well?

We are just adding a room to the house, and building a dbl garage behind an existing dbl carport, plans just got dropped off here an hour ago, took 3 weeks to get them drawn up (from scratch, no existing plans, 'lost in a council offices fire' many years ago)

$1,400 for the new plans, permits will be about $600 (or so we are told) building costs will be about $3,000 for the lot (not what you know, it is who you know is no truer than in the building game!)

(time for the games to begin )

Originally Posted by Terrian

'lost in a council offices fire' many years ago))

Queensland Housing Commision still had the original plans for my style of house (they used a number and did variations such as reversing the layout etc). They came in handy and will look good framed one day.

The original plumbing plans still have the water tank, outhouse and stormwater pit.

This was 1954.