Week 13 - Interior Walls

Week Thirteen 10 - 14 Dec

Day 58 - 62.  This week has been all about plaster board with the ceilings finished and all the interior walls now put up.

 
Its seems a bit of an odd way to do it to me as we don't have exterior wall yet but my site manager assures me that once the plaster board is vertical its not at risk from rain.

The plaster board has made such a difference to the rooms and you can really get an appreciation of the size and in the lounge room the ceiling becomes such a fantastic feature.  P was very impressed with the height and unlike our current ceiling he has no hope of touching this one!!

The other thing the walls show us is how much natural light the rooms get.  It has worked out really well, the only one that is a bit dark is J's bedroom which overlooks the deck, every other room is well lit even without lights - good news for the power bill. 

The other couple of "fix ups" were also corrected this week and we now have three taps all in their correct places.

This week the vinyl samples from the industrial vinyl companies arrived.  Most of them were quite disappointing colour wise and only one really went with the kitchen colours. 

Finding someone to get them in was the next challenge as residential types like us can't buy direct.  We went vinyl shopping and although a couple of companies were willing to get the commercial vinyl in a bit of research led us to realise that many of the higher quality residential vinyls are now also rated for light commercial use - which is suitable to our needs.  Consequently it means the restrictions we had on colour range are now not so restrictive.   After a bit of playing around with samples we found a couple of nice once but have decided to go with one called Cappuccino Lodge by Texline HQR.

The second challenge with the floor is the height difference between the bamboo and the vinyl.   Its an important thing to realise that when you have different types of flooring there can be height differences and how this is dealt with needs to be considered.  In our case we have 3mm vinyl, 14mm bamboo with a 3mm underlay and 8mm laminate wood with a 3mm underlay.  The 6mm difference between the bamboo and the laminate has standard joins available that make the height difference barely noticeable but the 15mm difference between the bamboo and the vinyl is significant and more than we were willing to have.  Consequently we are getting the people who are quoting for us to quote on an underlay or masonite to build the floor level up in the kitchen to be closer to the bamboo.

Tip - Find out the depths of your flooring materials and be sure you are happy with how height differences will be dealt with.