Glass balustrade and driveway

Our glass balustrades have been installed upstairs. Downstairs we have the balustrade and glass pool fencing gate. The rest of the pool fencing will be installed once the spa is in place and the decking continued around the spa.

Upstairs balustrade

Downstairs pool gate 

The rest of the balustrade downstairs 

The driveway turned out perfectly. The guys did an awesome job and the curves of the driveway are subtle. A great exposed aggregate mix too. The company is called 1300driveways and I would recommend them in a heartbeat. If you phone them make sure you request for Chris to do your job. They have other concreters (which are probably just as good) but Chris did our job and he was brilliant to deal with.

Today we started securing merbau to the galvanised steel posts under the alfresco/upper deck. In this picture we have clamps temporarily holding the timber in place.

Since. My last blog update we also finally had the drainage run at the front of the garage and front of the house. We also had our downpipes connected. This has made a huge difference to the amount of water entering the subfloor area, and to be honest, I'm not sure why it took them so long to do this. 

Agi to the front of the house

Agi to the front of the garage 

The concreter (actually, the same guy who did our driveway) is also doing the infill slab for the storeroom. As he is doing that next week we have also asked him to lay the slab for our spa at the same time. This means that the spa slab should be down by 20th June. How exciting!

The caulkers are coming tomorrow to caulk around the tiles, showers, basins etc. I think this will make such a difference and really tidy things up. 

The next two weeks should be a hive of activity with things getting finished outside and inside the house. 

Polished timber and driveway aggregate selection

Today we were able to go inside the house again since the timber floors were sanded and lacquered. The timber looks so much better as there is more contrast and definition in the timber now that it's lacquered. There is still one more sand and lacquer to be done but this will be done at the very end. The final lacquer will finish it off perfectly.

Now for some pictures... 

We visited a factory in Hallam and purchased a whole heap of these magnetic door stops. We seem to have great cross breezes through the house which causes the doors to slam so we thought magnetic door stops would be the way to go. These ones will match our Gainsborough Lianna door handles quite nicely.

We also took the opportunity today to visit Mentone Premix, on advice from our concreter, to pick the aggregate mix for our driveway. We ending up choosing a mix called Third 5%. It's a lighter colour with earthy tones and specks of black throughout.

A site clean was happening today so the front and back looks much better. Now that the front has been cleared the plumber can install the drainage and agi pipes to the front of the house. Fingers crossed this is finished soon as our driveway is booked in for Monday 26th May and we don't want to have to reschedule him again.