Timber Fencing Construction with Resak Wood - Finale

Here it is, all done. I designed it to have no visible fasteners from the outside. I often think that in Malaysia, people spend big money getting contractors to build mega-bucks timber fences for them only to have the aesthetic spoilt by too many visible rivets/bolts. The devil's in the details.

The edges in the near side of the pic are irregular. It was intentional, and I wasn't sure how it would turn out. Either you like it or hate it.

Day_52: The Show Must Go On

Despite the inevitable shennanigans creeping up here and there, progress continues to be made on the crib.

The marble floor gets shined up real nice




The bar counter gets tricked with some pimp-ass black on black tiles




The skirting on the interior of the bar counter gets built


And this is where the house stands now.
Upstairs:


Downstairs:

Day_35 : Outdoor Wet Kitchen

There's gotta be something more fun than watching concrete dry...


Like having the sink and tiles put in


Jolly good.

Day_08 - Day_18 :: Massive Update | Part:01 - Living Hall

I'm back from my trip to Melbourne, which explains the long lapse in updates, and also have started a new job which means I'm not as free to write this blog as I used to be. Nontheless, I shall try my best to keep these coming.

There's been a whole lot of progress over the past 2 weeks plus, so I'll just let the pictures do the talking
Here goes!

This is how the living hall started out



View with the kitchen wall demolished


The main dividing wall into the old car porch demolished


















Bricked up the old car porch entrance, opening for tall windows


View from the front, looking in. The old front door will go.

The newly-poured concrete first floor. That's the bathroom floor/living room ceiling.



Poured the concrete floor for the new living area.


Wide open space looking into the house. Unfortunately,we're stuck with a pillar or 2. And no more front door.


Plastering up.


This is how the light falls.

Day_07: Pouring The 1st Floor

 Today they started bright and early mixing up the concrete for what will become the master bath floor/living hall extension ceiling. Mixing, shovelling, and hoisting the stuff up manually, bucket by bucket.


And as the stuff below gets less and less, this gets more and more.


And that's the main progress for the day folks. Where there was none before, now we have a floor. Now get out of here and do something more fun than watch concrete dry. Scram.

Day_06: Prep For The Pour

Dropped in the house today for a discussion with our contractor, and just to observe the men at work.

Today's big job for them is getting the rebar in place before pouring the concrete for the first floor bathroom tomorrow. The wall/floor for the extension is drilled, and the rebar inserted into the holes. The rebars are then interlinked and tied with wires.


The old master bath has also been totalled. It's all wide open space now.
Before and after:



Discovered another problem... the place where I wanted to relocate the master bedroom door to is obstructed by a pillar in the wall. One wouldn't usually expect to find a pillar in the middle of a wall, usually they're in the corners.


But on further inspection, that pillar is the continuation of the main pillar from the ground floor up. Problem highlighted in red. Nuts, I shud have realised that earlier.


The window on the staircase landing where the new master bath is to be build was also demolished.

Day_05: Concrete formwork

I rolled by the house today and was glad to see 3 men hard at work, with some real progress being made.
Scaffolding was up and the formwork for the concrete slab which was to form the bathroom floor/living hall ceiling was being constructed.



View from the inside looking out


View from upstairs


Also, they've cleared much of the rubble that was on the floor inside.


But what I actually came to the house to do was to measure the hashing for the downstairs toilet bowl. For the uninitiated, you need to measure from the wall to the centre of the shitpipe. Toilet bowl also got specs, yo.