Happening outside my bedroom right now

[spacesailor]

My turn shortly !,

Across the road are to build a "  granyflat " at the rear of their block, so all your noise will be here soon. LoL

spacesailor

[facthunter]

You get your OWN special noise.  No cheapskate arrangements for you.. Another Granny off the street.  Nev

Edited May 1, 2022 by facthunter

[spacesailor]

MY neighbor complains about my listening to the aircraft passing overhead on my VHF receiver.

I can only run my aircraft motors when he is not at home.

Makes me happy to have that ' grannyflat ' take a long time to get an erection  !. LoL

spacesailor

 

[red750]

How I am being overshadowed.

 

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Yet another monstrosity...

 

[onetrack]

Gee, that's some pretty cheap and nasty-looking style of construction, too. What's happened to proper brick and tile? One mistake with a stovetop fire, and that place would burn like a Roman candle.

[red750]

The bricks and tiles will come later. Only the 3rd day of putting up the upstairs framework, with a stop for rain in the middle. It's a Metricon home, one of Melbourne's biggest builders.

[Marty_d]

3 hours ago, onetrack said:

Gee, that's some pretty cheap and nasty-looking style of construction, too. What's happened to proper brick and tile? One mistake with a stovetop fire, and that place would burn like a Roman candle.

Brick veneer, pretty standard building method.  Timber frame with foil wrap over it, bricks are spaced out around 50mm leaving an air gap cavity for insulation.  Add more insulation between the timber and you've got a double walled structure without the cost of doing two layers of brick, and something to screw the plaster to at the same time.  Lot easier to install services eg wiring in too.

 

As for tile - you can keep that stuff.  Our house had concrete tile roof, and finding leaks was a nightmare.  I ended up ripping them off and reroofing with Colorbond.  No leaks since and the rain sounds a lot better!

[facthunter]

Tiled roofs are BS, especially  the cement ones. Nev

[red750]

33 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Tiled roofs are BS, especially  the cement ones. Nev

That's what's on my house.

[facthunter]

They were common once. A lot of weight on the frame when wet. Keeps Roof Seal in business.   Nev

[red750]

They started the brickwork a couple of days ago. I went out to take a look.

 

[onetrack]

She'll be right, a good coat of concrete render will fix any imperfections in the brickwork!! 

[facthunter]

Looks "altered" to me. Nev

[red750]

Opening post was one week short of a year ago. They removed the scaffolding today. Still a lot of finishing off, cleaning up and landscaping to do, but here's what it looks like naked.

 

 

Here is a photo from the builders website showing a completed version.

 

[Jerry_Atrick]

Of course the big question at the moment is, will it be finished? They did well to get this far