Busy laying floorboards

I've spent the last month or so, every spare moment of my weekend time laying floorboards.

The timber is American Oak, and it supplied by Tait Flooring. The timber comes pre-finished, so you don't need to sand/stain it once it is down.

My father and I have been laying the boards using a Bostich secret nailer and lots of Bostich adhesive. The gluing part of the job is pretty messy, but I think its worth the effort to do the job well.

The top floor is done and I think came out great. It will be good to take a break and work on some other things before the remainder of the flooring arrives.

Staircase goes in.... and some more pool tiles

Progress on two fronts today. 

First up, the screening on the deck is installed. There's still some work to do to render the blue board, and to waterproof and tile the deck, but it's finally starting to come together.

Second: The upper flight of the interior staircase just got installed. It's still in the process of getting glued and clamped and screwed together, but it's starting to provide a sense of how it might look. The lower flight is still covered up, but the staircase makes hope to have it finished up by the end of the week, so that they can order the glass to slot into the channel.

Swimming Pool work & the deck

More progress on the swimming pool and deck. This week the tile work on the pool was started, and just today the steel framing for the privacy screen on the deck and the staircase just went in.

Swimming Pool Finishing

Water proof concrete render being used to finish up the swimming pool. Tiling should hopefully begin next week

Wiring closets

The upper cabinet is the communications rack - that's where all the Cat 6 cables, Coax cables (for DVB-T free to air tv and Foxtel satellite tv will terminate). This will also contain the main Ethernet switch for the house, as well as supplementary Power over Ethernet Switches to run the phones, doorbell and security cameras.

The lower panel will contain all the security panel, distributed analog audio zoning, and back to base monitoring for the various security zones. The electricians are there today wiring it all up.

Painting

Painting the walls is largely done, but we haven't started on architraves or skirting boards yet. Here's how Scarlett's room came up: