Walls Doors and Windows

Things are happening really fast on site now. The trees have come down, retaining walls have gone up and my version of the Great Dividing Range has been levelled to make the beginings of a garden.


Front door and window



Retaining Wall for Car Park

Structurally the building looks more like a house again as there is a roof on the extension and all the new doors and windows have been fitted. 




Blue sheeting wrapped up tight

  





Cladded

  It looks fantastic! The timber for the windows is just beautiful even the tradesmen have had to stop to admire them. The house gets wrapped in blue insulation sheeting followed by the VJ boards outside and gyprock walls inside giving us defined rooms for the first time. Everyone on site is working frantically to keep to schedule, sometimes there are so many tradesmen inside it's hard not to fall over each other.


Apparently this is now the fun stage of the build as I get to choose paint colours and source bathroom accesories, tiles, carpets, vinyl, furniture, window treatments, soft furnishings and the list goes on and on.....brilliant!
But ... finally, I feel like we are on schedule and my hopes to be moving in by August could  be realised. 

Its Taking Shape

The building work to convert the surgery house into a new dental practice is approximately at the halfway mark.
It is all hands on deck as the installtion work continues; plumbing and electrics are coming along well with the air conditioning ducting traversing the roof spaces like some outlandish multi-limbed beast.
 

aircon electrics installation


   


Light Points and Reception Room?!

 




Are these pipes right?

 If I'm not drilling teeth at the moment I seem to be sourcing materials, going over floor plans or having site meetings to ensure that everything is just right and that there will be adequate lighting and power sockets. The most important phase (for me anyway) was deciding exactly where the dental chairs should sit. After much head scratching and measuring followed by remeasuring the final position of the dental units was agreed upon and the boys got busy laying the pipework that holds all the clever gizmos that allow the chars to move and operate. It's complicated stuff and there is no changing my mind once the concrete goes down so I hope I've worked out the dimensions of the rooms correctly!

"Concrete Truck's here"



 


Pouring Concrete

 










The next day the concrete trucks arrived to pour the footings and slab for the treatment rooms and carpark. The concreting team swarm over the freshly pumped mix, tapping, prodding and smoothing until it is just right.The slab looks funny with all the plumbing work sticking out the top and again I get that hmm do you think the rooms are big enough feelng.   



Smooth



The Slab

Framed Surgery Rooms


The concrete is barely dry and before you know it the timber frame work is up and ta da there are two surgeries. Yes they are a long way off being the finished product but after dealing with Council for so long this is massive leap forward.