With our requirement for the house to be finished before Christmas the heat is now on to get things finished.
We are targeting moving in on the 16th December and there will be a lot of sub contractors on site in the weeks ahead.
The house is now fully wrapped all set for the roof to go on next week along with the weatherboards and the windows.
The uPVC window and door frames are coming across the Cook Strait from Dunedin on Tuesday and should all be in by next weekend. The uPVC are European design and provide excellent insulation and have a significant advantage over aluminium. The price is nearly the same.
Here you can see the weatherboard all ready to go up and the long run roof steel for the roof.
Over Labour weekend we started on the landscaping to try and take advantage of spring. Over 70 plants have been planted down the bank designed eventually to give food to the native birds and provide ground cover for most of the bank.
Kakabeak in the fore ground, kowhai in the far left, hebes, native flax, lavenders and plenty of low ground cover with coprosma prostrata, cranberry bergman, acaena microphylla, vinca gertrude jekyll and veronica oxford blue.. It drizzled over night so a good start for them.
Along the top of the retaining wall we have planted a hebe waireka, rhododendrons, azalea's and pieris japonica.
This week we have also placed a contract for the deck that sweeps around from the family room all the way to the study; agreed on the final selection of LED lights and our feature light for the hall way; arranged for the in wall vacuum system and settled on placement of all lights, switches, etc...
Contracts for the LED lights will be completed this week. - so all go and on track for the 16th December.
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